Okhtyrka Raion
{{short description|Subdivision of Sumy Oblast, Ukraine}}
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Okhtyrka Raion ({{langx|uk|Охтирський район}}) is a raion in Sumy Oblast in Central Ukraine. The administrative center of the raion is the town of Okhtyrka. Population: {{Ua-pop-est2022|120,107|.}}
On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Sumy Oblast was reduced to five, and the area of Okhtyrka Raion was significantly expanded. {{Cite news|title=Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ.|url=http://www.golos.com.ua/article/333466|access-date=2020-10-03|date=2020-07-18|website=Голос України|language=uk}}{{cite web |title=Нові райони: карти + склад |url=https://www.minregion.gov.ua/press/news/novi-rajony-karty-sklad/ |publisher=Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України |language=Ukrainian}} The January 2020 estimate of the raion population was {{Ua-pop-est2020|25,234|.}}
Nistory
Previously, the territory of the district was part of the Okhtyrsky, Velykopysarovsky, Trostyanetsky districts and the city of regional subordination Okhtyrka.
In March 2024, after deadly Russian attacks, more than 180 people were evacuated from Velyka Pysarivka hromada in Okhtyrka Raion.{{cite web |date=2024-03-15 |title=All residents evacuate from 22 settlements near Russian border in Sumy Oblast |url=https://www.yahoo.com/news/residents-evacuate-22-settlements-near-185643402.html |website=Yahoo News}}
Geographic characteristics
The area of the district is 3196.16 km2.{{Cite web |last= |title=Децентралізація в Україн |url=https://decentralization.ua/newrayons/1389 |access-date=2025-06-28 |website=decentralization.ua}} Okhtyrsky Raion is located on the slopes of the Central Russian Upland. The highest point is 202 m above sea level.Національний атлас України, с. 42 Retrieved 2025-06-28
The climate is moderately continental. Winter is cool, summer is not hot. The average temperature in July is +19 °C, in January -7.5 °C. The maximum precipitation falls in the summer in the form of rain. The average annual amount is from 650 to 700 mm, changing from west to east.Національний атлас України, с. 167 Retrieved 2025-06-28[https://pgf.sspu.edu.ua/images/2021/11/30/monografiya_sum_obl_2021_1f89e.pdf Географія Сумської області: особливості природи, соціально-економічного розвитку та раціонального природокористування]: колективна монографія / За заг. ред. А. О. Корнуса. − Суми: СумДПУ імені А.С. Макаренка, 2021. − 212 с. Retrieved 2025-06-28
Vorskla, left tributary of the Dnipro flow through the Okhtyrsky district. The river in the floodplain has many oxbow lakes and artificial lakes.{{Cite web |last= |first= |last2= |last3= |last4= |last5= |title=Охтирський район |url=https://maps.visicom.ua/c/34.68796,50.14303,10/f/ADMUA5G99?lang=uk |access-date=2025-06-28 |website=maps.visicom.ua |language=uk}}
Okhtyrsky Raion has reserves of silt, sapropel, peat, sulfur.Національний атлас України, с. 114 Retrieved 2025-06-28{{Cite web |last= |date=2024-02-26 |title=Корисні копалини Сумської області |url=https://insgeo.com.ua/korysni-kopalyny-sumskoi-oblasti/ |access-date=2025-06-28 |language=uk}}
Okhtyrsky district is part of the {{Not translated|Dnipro-Donetsk oil and gas region|lt=Dnipro-Donetsk oil and gas region|uk|Дніпровсько-Донецька нафтогазоносна область}} and has several oil and natural gas deposits.{{Cite web |last= |first= |date= |title=Охтирканафтогаз |url=https://esu.com.ua/article-77343 |access-date=2025-06-28 |website=esu.com.ua |language=uk}}{{Cite web |title=Про Охтирський район |url=https://oht.sm.gov.ua/index.php/uk/information |access-date=2025-06-28 |website=oht.sm.gov.ua}}
Okhtyrsky district is located in the forest-steppe natural zone. Among the trees in the forests, oaks, lindens, and maples dominate. Typical large mammals are elk, roe deer, wild boar, squirrels, beavers, hares and wolves. The most common soils in the area are typical black earths, gray, meadow, and meadow-bog soils.{{Cite web |last=Мотренко |first=М. С. |last2=Міщенко |first2=Л. В. |last3=Негреба |first3=І. С. |last4=Семенов |first4=В. М. |date=2022-12-12 |title=Охтирський район |url=https://esu.com.ua/article-77498 |access-date=2025-06-28 |website=esu.com.ua |language=uk}}
= Environmental protection activities =
In the Okhtyrsky district, the Hetman National Nature Park, the Khukhryansky, Bakyrivsky, and Klimentivsky nature reserves of national importance are located along the Vorskla River. {{Cite web |last= |first= |title=Природно-заповідний фонд України |url=http://pzf.land.kiev.ua/ |access-date=2025-06-28 |website=pzf.land.kiev.ua |language=uk}} Animals and plants listed in the Red Book of Ukraine that are found in the territory of the Okhtyrsky district: common crane, river otter, ermine, Ukrainian brook lamprey, bombus muscorum, stag beetle, swallowtail butterfly, gladiolus tenuis, two-leaved lyubka and May palmate. {{Cite web |title=Гетьманский національний природний парк |url=http://www.getmanski.info/index.php/ukr/golovna-storinka/8-ukr/2-laskavo-prosimo-do-getmanskogo-parku |access-date=2025-06-28 |website=www.getmanski.info}}
Communities of the district
Number of settlements 185. Number of cities – 2. The Shostka Raion includes 9 territorial communities. Its Okhtyrsky district includes: Okhtyrsky and Trostyanets urban territorial communities, Velykypysariv, Kyrykiv, Chupakhiv settlement communities and Boromlyan, Hrun, Komyshan, Chernechchyn rural territorial communities.
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Bibliography
- Національний атлас України/НАН України, Інститут географії, Державна служба геодезії, картографії та кадастру; голов. ред. Л. Г. Руденко; голова ред. кол.Б.Є. Патон. — К.: ДНВП «Картографія», 2007. — 435 с. — 5 тис.прим. — ISBN 978-966-475-067-4.
- Географічна енциклопедія України : [у 3 т.] / редкол.: О. М. Маринич (відповід. ред.) та ін. — К., 1989—1993. — 33 000 екз. — ISBN 5-88500-015-8.
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