Industrialnyi District, Kharkiv

Industrialnyi District (Ukrainian: Індустріальний район) is urban district of the city of Kharkiv, Ukraine, named after its industrial hub built in 1930s at its city's eastern outskirts.

Industrialnyi District

Індустріальний район
Urban district
Country Ukraine
OblastKharkiv Oblast
Area
 • Total33.4 km2 (12.9 sq mi)
Population
 • Total157,900
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
  1. Kholodnohirskyi District
  2. Shevchenkivskyi District
  3. Kyivskyi District
  4. Moskovskyi District
  5. Nemyshlyanskyi District
  6. Industrialnyi District
  7. Slobidskyi District
  8. Osnovianskyi District
  9. Novobavarskyi District

The district was created in 1936 as Ordzhonikidzevskyi (named after Sergo Ordzhonikidze)[1] and was based on a newly built Kharkiv Tractor Plant (KhTZ). It was renamed to its current name in February 2016 to comply with decommunization laws.[1]

Places
  • KhTZ
  • Chunykhy
  • Obriy
  • micro-districts: 759

References
  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) It was decided not to rename the Zhovtnevyi and the Frunzenskyi districts in Kharkiv, Korrespondent.net (3 February 2015)

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