Urban-type settlement

An urban-type settlement or settlement urbanized (Russian: Посёлок городского типа possjolok gorodskowo tipa; Ukrainian: селище міського типу selyschtsche miskoho typu; Belarusian: пасёлак гарадскога тыпу passjolak haradskoga typu ) is an administrative and territorial unit of the urban policy of the Soviet Union, which is classified in size and characteristics between village and city. The term is also used today in the successor states of the Soviet Union.

The urban-type settlement is attributable to the size of her rather village, of its infrastructure, however, urban, for example, by at least one major industrial settlement. Feature in the definition was usually that the economic focus of the place was not in agriculture.

Properties

Generally

According Great Soviet Encyclopedia is summed up in the Soviet Union following subspecies under the name of:

This definition applies in today's Russia, albeit applied focus.

Ukraine

The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1981 laid the properties of an urban-type settlement as follows:

• A settlement of more than 2,000 inhabitants, of which more than 2/3 are active as workers or employees (and their dependents).
• With industrial plants, buildings and rail connection

Or

• Settlements with middle and high schools, research institutions, sanatoriums or hospitals.

In exceptional cases, settlements of less than 2,000 inhabitants ( but more than 500) were given the status of an urban-type settlement, if they had good prospects for economic and social development. However, some of these settlements have also 10,000 inhabitants and more.

The supreme organ of the urban-type settlement was / is the settlement Soviet ( council ).

• Local form of settlement
• Administrative divisions of Ukraine
• Administrative divisions of Russia