Osnovianskyi District

Osnovianskyi District
Основ'янський район
Urban district in Kharkiv
Map
Country Ukraine
OblastKharkiv Oblast
Government
 • Head of AdministrationHanna Holovchanska (Kernes Bloc — Successful Kharkiv)
Area
 • Total45.54 km2 (17.58 sq mi)
Population
 • Total93,000
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
  1. Kholodnohirskyi District
  2. Shevchenkivskyi District
  3. Kyivskyi District
  4. Saltivskyi District
  5. Nemyshlianskyi District
  6. Industrialnyi District
  7. Slobidskyi District
  8. Osnovianskyi District
  9. Novobavarskyi District

Osnovianskyi District (Ukrainian: Основ'янський район) is an urban district of the city of Kharkiv, Ukraine, named after a neighborhood in the city Osnova.

Coat of arms of the former Chervonozavodskyi district

The district was established in January 1919 as Petynsko-Zhuravlivskyi. In September 1924, it was renamed Chervonozavodskyi. In 2016, it was renamed to its current name to comply with decommunization laws.[1]

  1. ^ (in Russian) Kharkiv renamed 5 metro stations and four districts, RBC Ukraine (18 May 2016)
    (in Ukrainian) Another 48 streets and 5 districts "decommunized" in Kharkiv, Ukrayinska Pravda (3 February 2015)
    (in Russian) Three districts renamed in Kharkiv, SQ (3 February 2015)
    (in Ukrainian) In Kharkiv, five metro stations and fifty streets have been communicated, Korrespondent.net, 18 May 2016)