Myrhorodskyi Raion

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Myrhorods'kyi Raion
Миргородський район

Location of Myrhorods'kyi Raion on the map of Ukraine.

General data

Country:

Ukraine

Oblast:

Poltava Oblast

Established:

July 3, 1923

Area:

1,540 km²

Population:
— Total:
— Density

40,900
26.6 p/km²

Area code:

-XXXX

Postal index:

Administrative subdivisions

Center:

Myrhorod

Cities:

Towns:

Villages:

Official information

Governor:

Website:

www.obladmin.poltava.ua

Myrhorodskyi Raion (Ukrainian: Миргородський район; translit.: Myrhorods'kyi raion) is a raion (district) in the central Ukrainian province of Poltava. The raion's administrative center is the city of Myrhorod, which is has a separate administrative status within the oblast'.

Important rivers within the Myrhorodskyi Raion include the Psel and Khorol rivers. The raion was officially founded on July 3, 1923, from the old raion of Lubny. The raion's boundaries, in its current form, exist form January 8, 1966.

An important village in the raion is Velyki Sorochyntsi, in which, since the 1960s, takes place the Sorochynski Fair. On April 1 [O.S. March 20] 1809, famous writer Nikolai Gogol was born in Velyki Sorochyntsi. His short story The Fair at Sorochintsï made the small village, and its fair, world-famous.