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Zhashkiv Territorial Community
Cherkasy
Population:
The Zhashkiv Territorial Community was formed in August 2017. It is situated in the western part of the Cherkasy Region (central Ukraine) belonging to the forest-steppe physical-geographical zone. The town of Zhashkiv is located at the intersection of national highways connecting the northern and southern parts of the Region.
The Buzivka and Sokolivka communities were added to the Zhashkiv Community resulting in the formation of the Zhashkiv Territorial Community with a surface area of 725.57 km2. The Community consists of twenty-seven localities.
The population of the Community totals 30,792 residents.
Men: 14,366 residents
Women: 16,426 residents
Internally displaced persons: 3,154 people
History
For the first time, the name of Zhashkiv can be found on the map of the French engineer Guillaume de Beauplan (first half of the 1740s), who marked on the maps of the Ukrainian lands belonging to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth the settlement of Zashkiv and the Bava River, now the Torch River, a tributary of the Tikich Uhorsky River.
1729: at the expense of local landlord Drozdovskyi, a church was built from oak logs at the place where Zhashkiv School No. 3 is now located.
1860: a sugar factory was built near the town employing 350 workers; in the early 20th century, the factory employed 896 workers. At that time, the town also had a winery and a brewery, twenty-eight artisans, and twenty-four shops. The local fair was famous for its horse trade.
On 07 March 1904, famous Ukrainian writer Dokia Humenna was born there; she authored novels such as “Children of the Milky Way”, “The Golden Plow”, “Khreshchaty Yar”, “Europe in Bondage”.
In 1923, Zhashkiv became the district centre.
In 1956, Zhashkiv was united with the village of Horodyshche and became a district subordination town.
In 2000, the Church of Peter and Paul was opened in the town.
Economy and Welfare
Many enterprises of various types operate in the territory of the Zhashkiv Community.
The largest enterprises include Novi Produkty, which produces a variety of soft and non-alcoholic beverages, as well as drinking water, popcorn, cider, and beer.
Zhashkivvazhmashbud, a large enterprise operating in the town of Zhashkiv, repairs and maintains industrial machines.
The Community is also famous for its Vidrodzennia operating in the town of Zhashkiv, which manufactures bricks, tiles and other building products from fired clay. And Vederstad is engaged in wholesale trade in agricultural machines and equipment.
An important role in the Community’s economy is played by agriculture, which is the basis of the community’s development, providing the local population with food and jobs.
In the Zhashkiv Community, agriculture encompasses the cultivation of grain crops, leguminous crops and oil crops, keeping and breeding animals, namely horses.
Agriculture also includes aspects of quality management of land resources, environmental protection and development of rural communities.
Zhashkiv Horse Factory LLC in the village of Sorokotiaha breeds horses and other animals of the equine family.
The field of education is actively developing in the Zhashkiv Territorial Community. The Community runs fourteen institutions of general secondary education attended by 3,446 students, including twelve lyceums, a grammar school, an elementary school and twenty-five preschool educational institutions.
Also, the Community runs an inclusive resource centre, an extracurricular institution and an art school.
Also, considerable attention is paid to the development of the culture of the residents. There is a centralized library system with its branches, a municipal culture centre with its branches, and a historical museum in the Community.
Community and War
Due to martial law, the priority areas in the work of the Zhashkiv Urban Territorial Community are comprehensive support of the army and territorial defence units, civil defence of the population, activation of economic operations, creation of conditions for business development, ensuring revenues to budgets, stable operation of social and medical facilities and educational institutions, provision of social support for combatants, the most disadvantaged categories of the population, and internally displaced persons.
In 2022, 10,247 internally displaced persons were registered in the territory of the Community. In cooperation with international organizations, business representatives and community residents, internally displaced persons are provided with humanitarian aid. In particular, 4,200 food kits, hygiene products, clothing and basic necessities kits have been organized and distributed.
The armed aggression of the russian federation in Ukraine has caused significant socio-economic problems that have also affected the Zhashkiv Urban Territorial Community. As a result of hostilities, the number of internally displaced persons has increased significantly in the Community. As a consequence, problems associated with their accommodation, provision of food products, and medicines arose. The load on the Community’s social and medical facilities has increased. The issue of increasing the types of documents (administrative services) that can be issued online for internally displaced persons has become extremely urgent. In order to ensure the safety of students and employees in educational institutions of various levels, an online education system was introduced and the problem of arranging shelters in educational institutions arose.
Currently, there is an urgent need to provide housing and repair existing premises for internally displaced persons, employ doctors, including internally displaced persons, and military personnel.
Community and War
On 09 November 2020, Ihor Tsybrovskyi was elected Head of the Zhashkiv Urban Territorial Community.
Under the leadership of the mayor, overhauls have been carried out in fourteen educational institutions across the Community; a new outpatient clinic has been opened in the village of Sokolivka; and outpatient clinics are planned to open in the villages of Buzivka and Puhachivka. New equipment has been purchased for the Zhashkiv hospital. School buses have been purchased. Street lighting has been organized in the Community localities. A sports complex has been built in the territory of Zhashkiv Lyceum No. 1. Sports and children’s playgrounds have been built in the territories of parks and educational institutions.
Development Strategy
The Community development strategy includes:
– Improving the conditions for attracting investments, forming the investment menu of the Community.
– Stimulating the development of entrepreneurship, self-employment and household income growth, supporting the development of cooperation, promoting the development of handicrafts, introducing new cultures and technologies in small-scale agricultural production, in particular in households.
– Developing life support infrastructure, improving water supply and drainage, developing security infrastructure, improving solid waste management, improving transport accessibility
– Improving the quality of life by improving the services of educational institutions, improving health care services, promoting opportunities to meet cultural needs.
– Stimulating social and civic integration, raising awareness of Community life, supporting mechanisms for residents’ participation in joint solutions to local problems
– Responsible citizen, promoting environmental awareness and waste management culture.
