Uman Raion
Uman Raion (, translit.: "Umans'kyi raion") is a raion (district) in the west of Cherkasy Oblast (province) of central Ukraine. Its administrative center is the city of Uman. Population: On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Cherkasy Oblast was reduced to four, and the area of Uman Raion was significantly expanded. Four abolished raions, Khrystynivka, Mankivka, Monastyryshche, and Zhashkiv Raions, as well as the city of Uman, which was previously incorporated as a city of oblast significance and did not belong to the raion, were merged into Uman Raion . The January 2020 estimate of the raion population was . Subdivisions. Before 2020. Before the 2020 reform, the raion consisted of four hromadas: After 2020. After the reform in July 2020, the raion consisted of 13 hromadas: On 12 August 2020, Sokolivka rural hromada was abolished and merged into Zhashkiv urban hromada, thus reducing the number of amalgamated hromadas in Uman Raion to 12. Settlements. The city of Uman is the administrative center of the Umanskyi Raion, but the city was not subordinate to the raion administration, but instead was directly subordinate to the oblast administration. Before 2020, Uman Raion included  1 urban-type settlement and 52 rural settlements. Some of the raion's settlements were: Ukraine's two the most famous granite deposits Starobabanske and Tanske are located in the raion. The first one in Stari Babany a few km north east of Uman and the second in the village of Tanske. Their granite production is widely exported.