Drohobych Raion

Drohobych Raion (Ukrainian: Дрогобицький район, romanized: Drohobytskyi raion) is a raion (district) of Lviv Oblast (region) of western Ukraine. Its administrative center is Drohobych. Population: 232,947 (2022 estimate).

On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Lviv Oblast was reduced to seven, and the area of Drohobych Raion was significantly expanded. Boryslav and Drohobych municipalities, as well as the city of Truskavets, which was previously incorporated as a city of oblast significance, were merged into Drohobych Raion. The January 2020 estimate of the raion population was 51,152 (2020 est.).

History

In 2020, the district included the Lastivka (with the villages of Lastivka, Svydnyk and Korytishche) and Holovska (with the villages of Holovske, Zubrytsia and Kryntyata) village councils of the Turka district and the Orivska (with the villages of Oriv and Zymivka) village council of the Skole district.

Subdivisions

Current

After the reform in July 2020, the raion consisted of 5 hromadas:

Boryslav urban hromada with the administration in the city of Boryslav, transferred from Boryslav Municipality;
Drohobych urban hromada with the administration in the city of Drohobych, transferred from Drohobych Municipality;
Medenychi settlement hromada with the administration in the urban-type settlement of Medenychi, retained from Drohobych Raion;
Skhidnytsia settlement hromada with the administration in the urban-type settlement of Skhidnytsia, transferred from Boryslav Municipality;
Truskavets urban hromada with the administration in the city of Truskavets, transferred from the city of oblast significance of Truskavets.