Shevchenkivskyi District
Шевченківський район | |
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| Country |  Ukraine |
| Oblast | Kharkiv Oblast |
| Government | |
| • Head of Administration | Volodymyr Kotkovsky (Kernes Bloc — Successful Kharkiv) |
| Area | |
• Total | 62 km2 (24 sq mi) |
| Population | |
• Total | 231,641 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
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Shevchenkivskyi District (Ukrainian: Шевченківський район) is an urban district of the city of Kharkiv, Ukraine, named after the Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko.[1]
The district was created in 1932 out of parts of Ivano-Lysohirskyi and Petynsko-Zhuravlivskyi districts. It was named as Dzerzhynskyi after the communist mass murderer Felix Dzerzhinsky, head of Cheka (All-Russian Extraordinary Commission). It was renamed to its current name in February 2016 to comply with decommunization laws.[1]
- ^ a b (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) It was decided not to rename the Zhovtnevyi and the Frunzenskyi districts in Kharkiv, Korrespondent.net (3 February 2015)