Odessa Oblast

Odessa Oblast, an aa written as Odesa Oblast (Ukrainian: Одеська область, translit. Odeska oblast; an aa referred tae as Odeshchyna—Ukrainian: Одещина), (Greek: Οδησσός) is the lairgest an soothmaist oblast (province) o sooth-wastren Ukraine. The admeenistrative center o the oblast is the ceety o Odessa.

Odessa Oblast Одеська область Odeska oblast
Oblast
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Location o Odessa Oblast (red) athin Ukraine (blue)
Kintra	Ukraine
Admin. centre	Odessa
Govrenment
• Governor	Eduard Matviychuk[1] (Pairty o Regions[1])
• Oblast cooncil	120 seats
• Chairperson	Mykola Leonidovych Skoryk (Pairty o Regions)
Area
• Total	33310 km2 (12,860 sq mi)
Area rank	Ranked 1st
Population  (2008)
• Total	2,687,543
• Rank	Ranked 6
• Density	81/km2 (210/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code	65000-68999
Aurie code	+380-48
ISO 3166 code	UA-51
Raions	7
Ceeties (tot)	19
Touns	33
Veelages	1138
FIPS 10-4	UP17
Website	www.odessa.gov.ua

History

The evidence o the earliest indwallers in this aurie comes frae the settlements an burial grunds o the Neolithic Gumelniţa, Cucuteni-Trypillian an Usatovo culturs, as well as tumuli an hoards o the Bronze Age Proto-Indo-Europeans. In the 1st millennium B.C. the Milesian Greeks biggit colonies alang the North Black Sea Coast, includin the touns o Olbia, Tyras, Niconium, Panticapaeum, an Chersonesus. The Greeks left ahint painted vessels, ceramics, sculpturs, inscriptions, airts an crafts that indicate the prosperity o thair auncient ceevilisation.

The cultur o Scythian tribes inhabitin the Black Sea littoral steppes is representit bi fynds frae settlements an burial grunds. Thare are wappen items, bronze cauldrons, ither utensils, adornments. Bi the beginnin o the 1st millennium A.D. the Sarmatians displaced the Scythians. In the 3rd–4t centuries A.D. the tribal alliance, representit bi the items o Chernyakhov cultur, wis creatit. Syne the middle o the first millennium the formation o Slavic fowk began. In the 9t century thay wur unitit intae a state wi Kiev as a centre. The Khazars, Polovtsy, Pechenegs wur the Slavs' neighbours durin the different times. The period o the 9t–14t centuries is reflectit bi the materials frae the settlements an ceeties o Kievan Rus', Belgorod, Caffa-Theodosia, Berezan Island.

Umwhile ruled bi the Ottoman Empire, the territory o the Odessa oblast passed intae Roushie an Soviet haunds in various stages atween the aichteent an 20t centuries. The Roushie Empire's expansion alang the Black Sea coast led tae the creation o the territory o Novorossiya, which wis colonised bi a variety o fowks, o whom the Roushies wur dominant. The Odessa oblast corresponds tae the maist wasterly portion o "New Roushie".

The oblast wis creatit on 27 Februar 1932 as pairt o the Ukrainian SSR. It wis expandit faur in 1954 bi absorbin Izmail Oblast (umwhile kent as Budjak region o Bessarabie).

Geografie

The oblast occupees an aurie o aroond 33,300 square kilometres (12,850 square miles). It is characterised bi lairgely flat steppes dividit bi the estuary o the Dniester river. Its Black Sea coast comprises numerous sandy beaches, estuaries an lagoons. The region's soils are renouned for thair fertility, an intensive agricultur is the mainstay o the local economy. The soothwast possesses mony orcharts an vinyairds, while arable crops are grown throughoot the region.

Points o interest

• Odessa Opera
• Akkerman fortress
• Potemkin Stairs

Economy

Rapeseed Field in Odessa Oblast.

Significant branches o the oblast's economy are:

• ile refinin & chemicals processin
• transportation (important sea an river ports, ile pipelines an railwey);
• viticulture an ither forms o agricultur, notably the growin o wheat, maize, baurley, sunflouers an sugar beets.

The region's industrial capability is principally concentratit in an aroond Odessa.

Demografics

The oblast's population (as o 2004) is 2.4 million fowk, nearly 40% o whom live in the ceety o Odessa.

Significant Romanie (6.2%) an Bulgarie (6.1%) minorities reside in the province.^[2] Thare is a sma Greek community in the ceety o Odessa.

Bulgaries an Moldovans / Romanies represent 21% an 13% respectively, o the population in the region o Budjak, athin Odessa oblast.

Subdiveesions

The Odessa Oblast is admeenistratively subdividit intae 26 raions (destricts) an 7 municipalities which are directly subordinate tae the oblast govrenment - (Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi an Chornomorsk), (Izmail, Podilsk, Teplodar, Yuzhne an the admeenistrative centre o the oblast, Odessa).

Detailed cairt o Odessa Oblast

Name	Ukrainian name	Aurie (km2)	Population 2015[3]	Admeen.center	Urban Population Anerly*
Odessa	Одеса (місто)	139	1,010,490	Odessa (ceety)	1,010,490
Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi	Білгород-Дністровський (місто)	31	57,559	Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi (ceety)	57,559
Chornomorsk	Чорноморськ (місто)	25	72,553	Chornomorsk (ceety)	67,323
Izmail	Ізмаї́л (місто)	53	72,266	Izmail (ceety)	72,266
Podilsk	Подільськ	25	40,613	Podilsk (ceety)	40,613
Teplodar	Теплодар (місто)	3	10,277	Teplodar (ceety)	10,277
Yuzhne	Южне (місто)	9	32,149	Yuzhne (ceety)	32,149
Ananyiv Raion	Ананьївський (район)	1,050	26,999	Ananyiv	8,441
Artsyz Raion ^	Арцизький (район)	1,379	45,274	Artsyz	14,886
Balta Raion	Балтський (район)	1,317	41,666	Balta	18,940
Berezivka Raion	Березівський (район)	1,637	33,930	Berezivka	12,614
Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Raion ^	Білгород-Дністровський (район)	1,852	60,774	Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi (ceety)	N/A *
Bilyayivka Raion	Біляївський (район)	1,497	94,083	Biliaivka	14,334
Bolhrad Raion ^	Болградський (район)	1,364	69,148	Bolhrad	15,451
Ivanivka Raion	Іванівський (район)	1,162	26,604	Ivanivka	8,807
Izmail Raion *	Ізмаїльський (район)	1,194	51,584	Izmail (ceety)	N/A *
Kiliya Raion ^	Кілійський (район)	1,358	52,400	Kiliya	28,434
Kodyma Raion	Кодимський (район)	818	29,586	Kodyma	11,195
Kominternivske Raion	Комінтернівський (район)	1,499	71,158	Kominternivske	14,028
Liubashivka Raion	Любашівський (район)	1,100	30,688	Liubashivka	10,954
Mykolaivka Raion	Миколаївський (район)	1,093	16,127	Mykolaivka	2,850
Ovidiopol Raion	Овідіопольський (район)	829	78,941	Ovidiopol	32,486
Okny Raion	Окнянський (район)	1,013	20,186	Okny	5,338
Podilsk Raion	Подільський (район)	1,037	27,091	Podilsk (ceety)	N/A *
Reni Raion ^	Ренійський (район)	861	58,352	Reni	25,527
Rozdilna Raion	Роздільнянський (район)	1,368	37,353	Rozdilna	19,003
Sarata Raion ^	Саратський (район)	1,474	45,057	Sarata	4,351
Savran Raion	Савранський (район)	617	19,083	Savran	6,420
Shyriaieve Raion	Ширяївський (район)	1,502	27,151	Shyriaieve	6,781
Tarutyne Raion ^	Тарутинський (район)	1,874	41,603	Tarutyne	12,932
Tatarbunary Raion ^	Татарбунарський (район)	1,748	38,825	Tatarbunary	10,988
Velyka Mykhailivka Raion	Великомихайлівський (район)	1,436	31,006	Velyka Mykhailivka	8,472
Zakharivka Raion	Захарівський (район)	956	20,233	Zakharivka	8,881

Nomenclatur

Maist o Ukraine's oblasts are named efter thair caipital ceeties, offeecially referred tae as "oblast centers" (Ukrainian: обласний центр, translit. oblasnyi tsentr). The name o each oblast is a relative adjective, formed bi addin a feminine suffix tae the name o respective centre ceety: Odessa is the centre o the Odes’ka oblast’ (Odessa Oblast). Maist oblasts are an aa whiles referred tae in a feminine noun form, follaein the convention o traditional regional place names, endin wi the suffix "-shchyna", as is the case wi the Odessa Oblast, Odeshchyna.

Relatit page: Romanization o Ukrainian

See an aa

• Subdiveesions o Ukraine
• Kherson Govrenorate