Obukhiv, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine

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🇺🇦 Obukhiv is a city in Kyiv Oblast of Ukraine. Administratively, it is incorporated as a town of oblast significance. Obukhiv is also an administrative centre of the Obukhiv Raion, though it does not belong to the region. Two other nearby villages, Lendy and Tatsenky, are subordinated to Obukhiv Municipality. The city has a Holodomor memorial and in 2009 the municipal administration took down the Lenin monument which was repeatedly vandalised. It is 178 km south - south-east of Chernobyl. Until 18 July 2020, Obukhiv was incorporated as a city of oblast significance and the centre of Obukhiv Municipality. It also served as the centre of Obukhiv Raion even though it did not belong to the raion. In July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Kyiv Oblast to seven, Obukhiv Municipality was merged into Obukhiv Raion.

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Geography Obukhiv has a dry sub-humid (0.5 - 0.65 p/pet) climate. The land area is not cultivated, but most of the natural vegetation remains intact. The landscape is mainly covered with mosaic vegetation/croplands. The climate is classified as humid continental (humid with severe winter, no dry season with a cool temperate moist forest bio-zone. The soil in the area is high in chernozems, phaeozems, greyzems (ch), dark colored, deep soils in organic matter, calcareous lower in profile, also typical of grass steppe/prairie.

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Culture September 15th is the Day of Obukhiv.

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Government Oleksandr Levchenko was elected mayor in March 2012 (with 38.6% of the total vote); thanks to a low voter turnout of 43% with only 4,500. In the 2010 local elections Levchenko's Party of Regions also won most seats in the 46 seats city council (18 with 39,1%), followed by UDAR of Vitaliy Klychko (11 with 23,9%).

Levchenko was reelected as mayor in the October 2020 Ukrainian local elections with 51.5% of the votes as a candidate of the Servant of the People.)

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Transport: Air No major airports are close to the city.

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Obukhiv has a population of over 33,443 people. Obukhiv also forms the centre of the wider Obukhiv Raion which has a population of over 228,829 people.

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Twin Towns, Sister Cities Obukhiv has links with:

🇵🇱 Będzin, Poland 🇺🇦 Myrhorod, Ukraine 🇧🇾 Polotsk, Belarus 🇩🇪 Radebeul, Germany
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Antipodal to Obukhiv is: -149.374,-50.11

Locations Near: Obukhiv 30.6265,50.11

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🇺🇦 Kiev 30.524,50.451 d: 38.6  

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🇺🇦 Brovary 30.785,50.511 d: 46  

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🇺🇦 Irpin 30.262,50.52 d: 52.4  

🇺🇦 Bila Tserkva 30.109,49.811 d: 49.7  

Antipodal to: Obukhiv -149.374,-50.11

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🇺🇸 Maui -156.446,20.72 d: 12108.4  

🇺🇸 Maui County -156.617,20.868 d: 12090.5  

🇺🇸 Kahului -156.466,20.891 d: 12089.2  

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