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Kyiv Oblast has a total area of 28,100 km 2 (10,849 sq mi) (approximately 35 times the area of Kyiv city) and is located in north-central Ukraine. On the west it borders the Zhytomyr Oblast , on the southwest – Vinnytsia Oblast , on the south – Cherkasy Oblast , on the southeast – Poltava Oblast , on the east and northeast – Chernihiv ...
Bila Tserkva, the most populous city in Kyiv Oblast [2] [12] Brovary, second largest city in the oblast and the largest satellite city of Kyiv [2] [13] Boryspil, the oblast's fourth largest city and the site of the largest airport in Ukraine [2] [14] Pripyat, the country's smallest city and a ghost town as the result of its abandonment after the Chernobyl disaster [2] [15]
In Ukraine, the term oblast denotes a primary administrative division.Under the Russian Empire and into the 1920s, Ukraine was divided between several governorates.The term oblast was introduced in 1932 by Soviet authorities when the Ukrainian SSR was divided into seven oblasts, replacing the previous subdivision system based on okruhas and encompassing 406 raions (districts). [2]
The Russian occupation of Kyiv Oblast was a military occupation that began on the first day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022. The capital, Kyiv, was extensively bombed during the invasion, but was never captured. However, many cities were captured near northern and western parts of the oblast.
An oblast in Ukraine, sometimes translated as region or province, is the main type of first-level administrative division of the country. Ukraine is a unitary state, thus the oblasts do not have much legal scope of competence other than that which is established in the Ukrainian Constitution and by law. Articles 140–146 of Chapter XI of the ...
Residential building in Hlevakha (Kyiv Oblast) after the attack. Three people were killed in Russian drone strikes on Kyiv Oblast. [118] Ukraine launched 121 drones over thirteen regions in Russia, which the latter claimed to have destroyed, including six in Moscow Oblast and one over Moscow city. Vnukovo and Domodedovo airports were closed.
Until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, most of the authority in Kyiv Oblast belonged to the Kyiv Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine. The following is a full list of the leaders of Kyiv Oblast from 1932 until the present day. [4] Representative of the President Ivan Kapshtyk (1992–1994)
Raions of Kyiv Oblast (prior to the 2020 reform) Before July 2020, Kyiv Oblast was subdivided into 38 regions: 25 districts and 13 city municipalities (mis'krada or misto), officially known as territories governed by city councils. [3] Cities under the oblast's jurisdiction: Berezan (Березань) Bila Tserkva (Біла Церква)