Mykolaiv Oblast

Mykolaiv Oblast Миколаївська область Mykolayivs’ka oblast’
Oblast
Flag Coat of arms
Nickname(s): Миколаївщина (Mykolayivschyna)
Coordinates: 47°26′N 31°48′E / 47.43°N 31.8°E / 47.43; 31.8Coordinates: 47°26′N 31°48′E / 47.43°N 31.8°E / 47.43; 31.8
Country	Ukraine
Administrative center	Mykolaiv
Government
• Governor	Vadim Merikov[1] (Batkivshchyna[1])
• Oblast council	90[2] seats
Area
• Total	24,598 km2 (9,497 sq mi)
Area rank	Ranked 14th
Population (September 1, 2013[3])
• Total	1,170,924
• Rank	Ranked 18th
Time zone	EET (UTC+2)
• Summer (DST)	EEST (UTC+3)
Postal code	54000-56999
Area code	+380-51
ISO 3166 code	UA-48
Raions	19
Cities (total) — Regional cities	9 5
Urban-type settlements	20
Villages	900
FIPS 10-4	UP16
Website	www.mykolayiv-oda.gov.ua www.kmu.gov.ua

Mykolaiv Oblast (Ukrainian: Миколаївська область, translit. Mykolayivs’ka oblast’; also referred to as Mykolayivschyna - Ukrainian: Миколаївщина) is an oblast (province) of Ukraine. The administrative center of the oblast is the city of Mykolayiv.

Geography

The Mykolaiv Oblast is located in the southern half of Ukraine. Its area (24,600 km²), comprises about 4.07% of the total area of Ukraine.

The Mykolaiv Oblast borders upon the Odessa Oblast in the west-southwest, the Kirovohrad Oblast in the north, the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast in the northeast, and the Kherson Oblast on the southeast.

To the south the oblast is also bordered by the Black Sea. Along the coast there are several ports and the Mykolaiv International Airport.

Points of interest

The following historic-cultural sites were nominated for the Seven Wonders of Ukraine.

• Olbia
• Dykyỹ sad (Wild Garden)

Demographics

The current estimated population is 1.2 million people (as of 2005). The greater part of the oblast's population resides in urban type settlements (66%), with the remainder residing in agricultural areas. Also, almost 60% of the urban population resides in Mykolayiv, the industrial, cultural and administrative center of Mykolayiv Oblast.

The oblast's population density is one of the lowest in Ukraine – 52 people per 1 km². The oblast' is ranked 18 by the percentage of the population of Ukraine, that the Mykolaiv Oblast contain, which os 2.6%.

Age structure

0-14 years: 14.7% (male 88,668/female 83,434)

15-64 years: 70.7% (male 396,342/female 432,808)

65 years and over: 14.6% (male 56,527/female 114,987) (2013 official)

Median age

total: 39.7 years

male: 36.3 years

female: 42.9 years (2013 official)

Administrative divisions

The Mykolaiv Oblast formed in September 1937. It is subdivided into 19 raions (administrative districts), and 5 municipalities (misto) which are directly subordinate to the oblast government.

At a lower level of administration, these district-level administrations are subdivided into:

• Settlements — 922, including:
  • Villages — 896;
  • Cities/Towns — 21, including:
    • Cities of raion subordinance — 4 (Bashtanka, Novyi Buh, Nova Odesa and Snihurivka);
    • Urban-type settlement — 17;
• Selsovets — 287.

The local administration of the oblast is controlled by the Mykolaiv Oblast Rada. The governor of the oblast is the Mykolaiv Oblast Rada speaker, appointed by the President of Ukraine.

Nomenclature

Most of Ukraine's oblasts are named after their capital cities, officially referred to as "oblast centers" (Ukrainian: обласний центр, translit. oblasnyi tsentr). The name of each oblast is a relative adjective, formed by adding a feminine suffix to the name of respective center city: Mykolaiv is the center of the Mykolayivs’ka oblast’ (Mykolaiv Oblast). Most oblasts are also sometimes referred to in a feminine noun form, following the convention of traditional regional place names, ending with the suffix "-schyna" or "-shchyna", as is the case with the Mykolaiv Oblast, Mykolayivschyna.

Public opinion

During the 1991 referendum, 89.45% of votes in Mykolaiv Oblast were in favor of the Declaration of Independence of Ukraine. A survey conducted in December 2014 by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology found 2.1% of the oblast's population supported their region joining Russia, 95.5% did not support the idea, and the rest were undecided or did not respond.^[5]

See also

• Subdivisions of Ukraine
• Kherson Governorate
• Lysa Hora

References

External links

• State Administration of Mykolaiv Oblast - official site (Ukrainian)/(Russian)/(English)
• Information Card of the Region - official site of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine

Administrative divisions of Mykolaiv Oblast Administrative center: Mykolaiv Raions Arbuzynka Bashtanka Berezanka Bereznehuvate Bratske Domanivka Kazanka Kryve Ozero Mykolaiv Novyi Buh Nova Odesa Ochakiv Pervomaisk Snihurivka Veselynove Voznesensk Vradiivka Yelanets Zhovtnevyi Cities Regional Mykolaiv Ochakiv Pervomaisk Voznesensk Yuzhnoukrainsk District Bashtanka Novyi Buh Nova Odesa Snihurivka Urban-type settlements Category:Mykolaiv Oblast

Administrative divisions of Ukraine Capital: Kiev Oblasts Cherkasy Chernihiv Chernivtsi Dnipropetrovsk Donetsk Ivano-Frankivsk Kharkiv Kherson Khmelnytskyi Kiev Kirovohrad Luhansk Lviv Mykolaiv Odessa Poltava Rivne Sumy Ternopil Vinnytsia Volyn Zakarpattia Zaporizhia Zhytomyr Cities with special status Kiev Sevastopol1 Autonomous republic Crimea1 Administrative centers Cherkasy Chernihiv Chernivtsi Dnipropetrovsk Donetsk Ivano-Frankivsk Kharkiv Kherson Khmelnytskyi Kiev Kirovohrad Luhansk Lutsk Lviv Mykolaiv Odessa Poltava Rivne Sevastopol Simferopol Sumy Ternopil Uzhhorod Vinnytsia Zaporizhia Zhytomyr 1Claimed and controlled by Russia as the Republic of Crimea and the Federal City of Sevastopol