Shevchenkivskyi District, Kharkiv
Shevchenkivskyi District
Шевченківський район | |
|---|---|
| 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) |
Shevchenkivskyi District (Ukrainian: Шевченківський район) is an urban district of the city of Kharkiv, Ukraine, named after the Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko.
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.