Okhtyrka Raion

Okhtyrka Raion is a raion in Sumy Oblast in Central Ukraine. The administrative center of the raion is the town of Okhtyrka. Population:
On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Sumy Oblast was reduced to five, and the area of Okhtyrka Raion was significantly expanded. The January 2020 estimate of the raion population was

History

Previously, the territory of the district was part of the Okhtyrsky, Velykopysarovsky, Trostyanetsky districts and the city of regional subordination Okhtyrka.
In March 2024, after deadly Russian attacks, more than 180 people were evacuated from Velyka Pysarivka hromada in Okhtyrka Raion.

Geographic characteristics

The area of the district is 3196.16 km². Okhtyrsky Raion is located on the slopes of the Central Russian Upland. The highest point is 202 m above sea level.
The climate is moderately continental. Winter is cool, summer is not hot. The average temperature in July is +19 °C, in January -7.5 °C. The maximum precipitation falls in the summer in the form of rain. The average annual amount is from 650 to 700 mm, changing from west to east.
Vorskla, left tributary of the Dnipro flow through the Okhtyrsky district. The river in the floodplain has many oxbow lakes and artificial lakes.
Okhtyrsky Raion has reserves of silt, sapropel, peat, sulfur.
Okhtyrsky district is part of the and has several oil and natural gas deposits.
Okhtyrsky district is located in the forest-steppe natural zone. Among the trees in the forests, oaks, lindens, and maples dominate. Typical large mammals are elk, roe deer, wild boar, squirrels, beavers, hares and wolves. The most common soils in the area are typical black earths, gray, meadow, and meadow-bog soils.

Environmental protection activities

In the Okhtyrsky district, the Hetman National Nature Park, the Khukhryansky, Bakyrivsky, and Klimentivsky nature reserves of national importance are located along the Vorskla River. Animals and plants listed in the Red Book of Ukraine that are found in the territory of the Okhtyrsky district: common crane, river otter, ermine, Ukrainian brook lamprey, bombus muscorum, stag beetle, swallowtail butterfly, gladiolus tenuis, two-leaved lyubka and May palmate.

Communities of the district

Number of settlements 185. Number of cities – 2. The Shostka Raion includes 9 territorial communities. Its Okhtyrsky district includes: Okhtyrsky and Trostyanets urban territorial communities, Velykypysariv, Kyrykiv, Chupakhiv settlement communities and Boromlyan, Hrun, Komyshan, Chernechchyn rural territorial communities.