Slobidskyi District

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

Slobidskyi District

Слобідський район
Urban district
Country Ukraine
OblastKharkiv Oblast
Area
 • Total24.3 km2 (9.4 sq mi)
Population
 • Total146,850
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 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]

Places
  • Chervonyi Promin
  • Artema
  • Hertzena
  • Kachanivka
  • Horbani
  • Novi Domy

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) In Kharkiv, five metro stations and fifty streets have been communicated, Korrespondent.net, 18 May 2016)


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