Zaporizhia Oblast


Zaporizhia Oblast ; also referred to as Zaporizhia, is an oblast of southern Ukraine. Its capital is Zaporizhia. The oblast covers an area of, and its population was.
This oblast is an important part of Ukraine's industry and agriculture.

Geography

The area of the oblast is 27,183 km²; its population was 1,785,243.
Important cities include:
The area corresponding approximately to the modern Zaporizhia Oblast - according to Herodotus - was called in the antiquity as the land of Gerrhos. This area was the burial place of "royal Scythians" where they buried their kings.
The modern Zaporizhia Oblast was created as part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic on 10 January 1939 out of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. During the 1991 referendum, 90.66% of votes in the oblast were in favor of the Declaration of Independence of Ukraine. The SBU thwarted an attempt to blow up a railway line in the Zaporizhia Oblast, and found that the suspects were carrying maps and explosives on 8 July 2014. 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, 80.7% did not support the idea, and the rest were undecided or did not respond.

Points of interest

The following sites were nominated for the Seven Wonders of Ukraine.
The Zaporizhia Oblast is administratively subdivided into 20 raions as well as 5 cities which are directly subordinate to the oblast government: Berdiansk, Enerhodar, Melitopol, Tokmak, and the administrative center of the oblast, Zaporizhia.
NameUkrainian nameArea
Population
census 2015		Admin. centerUrban Population Only
ZaporizhiaЗапоріжжя 334757,650Zaporizhia 757,650
BerdianskБердянськ 83117,492Berdiansk 114,401
EnerhodarЕнергодар 6454,397Enerhodar 54,397
MelitopolМелітополь 51156,022Melitopol 156,022
TokmakТокмак 3332,209Tokmak 32,209
Berdiansk RaionБердянський район1,77625,533Berdiansk N/A *
Bilmak RaionБільмацький район1,30022,500Bilmak9,423
Chernihivka RaionЧернігівський район1,20017,331Chernihivka5,994
Huliaipole RaionГуляйпільський район1,30027,067Huliaipole15,116
Kamianka-Dniprovska RaionКам'янсько-Дніпровський район1,24040,525Kamianka-Dniprovska13,223
Melitopol RaionМелітопольський район1,78049,724Melitopol N/A *
Mykhailivka RaionМихайлівський район1,06729,250Mykhailivka15,609
Novomykolaivka RaionНовомиколаївський район91516,206Novomykolaivka6,764
Orikhiv RaionОріхівський район1,59046,239Orikhiv20,358
Polohy RaionПологівський район1,34040,576Polohy19,552
Pryazovske RaionПриазовський район1,94727,636Pryazovske9,106
Prymorsk RaionПриморський район1,40030,334Prymorsk12,085
Rozivka RaionРозівський район6108,960Rozivka3,289
Tokmak RaionТокмацький район1,44222,705Tokmak N/A *
Vasylivka RaionВасилівський район1,62064,131Vasylivka37,232
Velyka Bilozerka RaionВеликобілозерський район4708,064Velyka Bilozerka6,124
Vesele RaionВеселівський район1,12821,756Vesele10,042
Vilniansk RaionВільнянський район1,28047,572Vilniansk16,795
Yakymivka RaionЯкимівський район1,85033,942Yakymivka15,386
Zaporizkyi RaionЗапорізький район1,46257,842Zaporizhia N/A *

Note: Asterisks Though the administrative center of the raion is housed in the city/town that it is named after, cities do not answer to the rayon authorities only towns do; instead they are directly subordinated to the oblast government and therefore are not counted as part of raion statistics.

Demographics

According to the 2001 Ukrainian Census the population of the oblast was 1,929,171. Some 70.8% considered themselves Ukrainians, while 24.7% were Russians, the rest were of assorted nationalities including Bulgarians, Belarusians, and others. Just under half the population considered the Russian language to be their native tongue, while a majority considered the Ukrainian language to be their native tongue.

Age structure

Median age

Fertility

YearFertilityBirthYearFertilityBirthYearFertilityBirth
19901,725 96020001,013 90020101,318 018
19911,724 73920011,014 01020111,418 198
19921,522 62420021,114 865---
19931,420 88120031,115 301---
19941,319 26520041,116 091---
19951,217 82020051,215 862---
19961,216 76420061,217 241---
19971,116 23420071,317 591---
19981,114 96820081,418 901---
19991,013 88020091,418 409---

Education

679 daytime and 11 evening state schools plus 6 daytime schools that are non-budget supported secondary schools involved 271400 pupils in 2001. 22 classical schools, 8 Lyceums, a Sichovy Collegium and 54 education-breeding complex bodies aren't out of reach to gifted children. New style 38 complex kindergarten-schools work too.
Over 60,000 children develop their talents through out-of-school institutions. They attend 30 creative centres, 6 science-technical stations and four young naturalists stations, five tourists clubs, three training flotillas, 11 children's sport clubs and 20 sport schools. Extra-scholastic education system has such a unique body as the Small Academy of Science. Boys and girls work there in six main disciplines: physics-mathematics, chemistry-biology, history-geography, philology, industrial and information technologies. The Small Academy young members maintain close friendship relations with scientists of big institutes and universities. 26 youngsters became winners of the All-Ukrainian Academy contest, so Zaporizhia regional team gained the 1st place.
325 secondary schools, five classical schools, a Collegium and three complex-schools use the Ukrainian language. Nevertheless, the minorities have a free choice — 193 schools are Russian, a large Jewish school «Alef» works in Zaporizhia and smaller ones exist in other points, a Ukrainian-Bulgarian Lyceum is in Primorsky district. The Greek, Czech, Bulgarian languages are very popular in Yakimivsky, Berdyansky, Priazovsky and Melitopole rural districts. One may learn Hebrew, Yiddish, German, Polish, Tatar and other languages attending option courses anywhere.
Specialists keep on looking for an adaptive school model. 26 institutions develop the humanization process using new teaching technologies. The Khortitsky multi-profile teaching-rehabilitation centre has worked out methods for complete support of sanatorium-boarding-schools' children. Berdyansk is the town where a Regional boarding school for orphans works out active socialization programs.
42 institutions provide vocational education. This system distribute well-trained workers to regional industry and business. The list of specialities includes over 100 names. Vocational schools give courses for improving qualification in cooperation with unemployment centres. More than 1500 jobless persons get new professions every year due it.
The higher education system is the most flexible and advanced. Today 25 state-controlled technical colleges have I-II class rank and 8 higher institutions have III-IV class certificates. These are University and the Zaporizhia politehnika, the Medical University and the Institute of Law with Ministry of Internal Affairs in Zaporizhia City, the Pedagogical University, the Agricultural Academy in Melitopole and the Pedagogical Institute in Berdyansk. There are also five higher education private bodies — the Institute of Economics and Information Technologies, the State and Municipal Government Institute and the others. Over 65000 people are the students in this region. There are 212 Doctors of Science and 1420 Candidates of Science among their lecturers. Zaporizhia City is one of the biggest centres for foreigners' education in Ukraine.
The International Astronomical Union named two minor planets «Khadzhinov» and «Vikchemov» in honour of our countrymen who made a significant contribution in science and education.