Slobidskyi District

Slobidskyi District
Слобідський район
Urban district in Kharkiv
Map
Country Ukraine
OblastKharkiv Oblast
Government
 • Head of AdministrationVyacheslav Ilyenko (Kernes Bloc — Successful Kharkiv)
Area
 • Total
24.3 km2 (9.4 sq mi)
Population
 • Total
146,850
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

Slobidskyi District (Ukrainian: Слобідський район) is an urban district of the city of Kharkiv, Ukraine, named after historical eastern region of Ukraine, Sloboda Ukraine.

The district was created in 1940 as Kominternivskyi after the Kharkiv Locomotive Factory of Komintern (today Malyshev Factory. In May 2016 it was renamed to its current name to comply with decommunization laws.[1]

  1. ^ (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)