Kryvyi Rih urban territorial hromada (Ukrainian: Криворізька територіа́льна грома́да, romanized: Kryvorizka terytorialna hromada) is a hromada (municipality) in central Ukraine, in Kryvyi Rih Raion of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. The administrative center is the city of Kryvyi Rih.[1] The municipality is governed by a mayor and city council which work cooperatively to ensure the smooth-running of the city and procure its municipal bylaws. The city's budget is also controlled by the administration.
Administratively, until 2020, Kryvyi Rih was designated a city of oblast significance, which placed the municipality at the same level of administration as that of a raion, and thus directly subordinate to the oblast. On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast was reduced to seven, and the status of Kryvyi Rih Municipality was subordinated directly to the enlarged Kryvyi Rih Raion.[2][3] The last estimate of the municipality population was 622,012 (2020 est.).[4]
The municipality consists[5] of 1 city (Kryvyi Rih proper) and 5 villages.
The area of the hromada is 431.9 square kilometres (166.8 sq mi),[5] and the population is 606,584 (2022 estimate).[6]
Jurisdiction
Kryvyi Rih Municipality is divided into seven administrative urban raions (city districts), each with its own administrative bodies subordinate to the municipality:
The City Council Assambly of the city makes up the administration's legislative branch, thus effectively making it a city council (or rada). The municipal council is made up of 90 elected members, who are each elected to represent a certain district of the city for a four-year term. The current council is the sixth in the city's modern history, and was elected in 2010. In the regular meetings of the municipal council, problems facing the city are discussed, and annually the city's budget is drawn up. The council has 33 standing commissions which play an important role in controlling the finances and trading practices of the city and its merchants.[13]
