Boryspil Raion () is an administrative raion (district) in east-central Kyiv Oblast of Ukraine. Its administrative center is the city of Boryspil. Population:
On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Kyiv Oblast was reduced to seven, and the area of Boryspil Raion was significantly expanded. Two abolished raions, Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi and Yahotyn Raions, as well as the cities of Boryspil and Pereiaslav, which were previously incorporated as cities of oblast significance and did not belong to the raion, were merged into Boryspil Raion. The area of the raion before the reform was . The January 2020 estimate of the raion population was
Geography The Boryspil raion is located in the east-central area of the Kyiv Oblast, and has a total area of 146 km2.
On the raion's southern border flows the Dnieper River (Dnipro). Near the river, the raion's lowest elevation points are located. Other rivers that flow through the raion include: the left tributaries of the Dnieper: Pavlivka, Mlen, Ikva, and the right tributaries of the Trubizh River: Bochechky, Karan', Vohnyscha, Krasylivka, Al'ta, and Il'tytsia. All of the raion's rivers flow through the low-elevation territory, making all of the rivers flow more slowly. The rivers take their sources from winter snowfalls and seasonal rains. On the southernmost border of the raion is the Kaniv Reservoir, which provides electric supply to nearby areas.
Forests cover about 150 km2 of the raion's 146 km2 area.
Demographics The Boryspil raion's total population is 53,483, which includes 23,400 males, and 30,080 females. The number of pensioners totals 16,300, about 33.6% of the total population of the raion. The density of the raion's population is 364 p/km2.
The national ethnic composition is: Ukrainians (95.2%), Russians (3.8%), Belarusians (0.3%) and Moldovans (0.1%).
Culture Within the Boryspil raion operates a musical school for children (in the village of Schastlyve), a school of art (in the village of Velyka Oleksandrivka) Also, a couple of educational schools operate on the territory of the raion:
Institute of Cloning and Genetics of Animals (Ukrainian Academy of Agriculture); Central science-laboratory for experiments with water and ground soil (Institute of Hydrotechno, UAAN).
A festival (Argo and Kyiv's fall; ), is held two times a year within the village of Chubynske. Within the village of Revne, is a reserved retirement village for veterans of wars. In addition, living quarters are reserved for children of homeless children and children of poor families in the villages of Revne, Abaievykh, and Stare.
Subdivisions
Current After the reform in July 2020, the raion consisted of 11 hromadas: Hromada (Community) Admin. center Population (2020) Transferred/Retained from Boryspil urban Boryspil 79,158 city of oblast significance of Boryspil Divychky rural Divychky 4,521 Pereiaslav-Khmelnyitskyi Raion Hora rural Hora 6,100 Boryspil Raion Pereiaslav urban Pereiaslav 31,947 city of oblast significance of Pereiaslav Prystolychchia rural Shchaslyve 10,856 Boryspil Raion Studenyky rural Studenyky 6,964 Pereiaslav-Khmelnyitskyi Raion Tashan rural Tashan 5,301 Pereiaslav-Khmelnyitskyi Raion Tsybli rural Tsybli 6,144 Pereiaslav-Khmelnyitskyi Raion Voronkiv rural Voronkiv 13,806 Boryspil Raion Yahotyn urban Yahotyn 31,154 Yahotyn Raion Zolochivska rural Hnidyn 5,851 Boryspil Raion
Before 2020
Before the 2020 reform, the raion consisted of four hromadas, Hora rural hromada with the administration in Hora; Prystolychchia rural hromada with the administration in Shchaslyve; Voronkiv rural hromada with the administration in Voronkiv; Zolochiv rural hromada with the administration in Hnidyn.
Previously, it consisted of 20 rural councils that contained 43 villages. + Largest councils in raion, 2001 # Council Population 1 Shchaslyve 5,078 2 Voronkiv 4,175 3 Velyka Oleksandrivka 3,732 4 Vyshenky 3,544 5 Kirove 3,496 No Main village Other villages 1 Horodyshche 2 Hnidyn 3 Holovuriv Kyiliv 4 Hora 5 Dudarkiv Zaimyshche 6 Ivankiv 7 Kirove Artemivka Lebedyn Mala Starytsia Sulymivka 8 Liubartsi Tarasivka 9 Martusivka 10 Myrne Mali Yerkivtsi 11 Protsiv 12 Revne Leninivka 13 Rohoziv Kyryivshchyna 14 Senkivka Andriyivka Velyka Starytsia Horobiyivka Hryhorivka Perehudy 15 Shchaslyve Prolisky 16 Soshnykiv 17 Stare Vasylky 18 Velyka Oleksandrivka Bezuhlivka Mala Oleksandrivka Chubynske 19 Voronkiv Zhovtneve 20 Vyshenky Petrovske
See also Administrative divisions of Kyiv Oblast Boryspil International Airport
References
External links
kyiv-obl.gov.ua - Information about the Boryspil raion Verkhovna Rada website - Administrative divisions of the Boryspil raion