Shevchenkivskyi District, Kharkiv
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Shevchenkivskyi District is urban district of the city of Kharkiv, Ukraine, named after the Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko.
The district was created in 1932 out of parts of Ivano-Lysohirskyi and Petynsko-Zhuravlivskyi districts. It was named as Dzerzhynskyi after the head of Cheka. It was renamed to its current name in February 2016 to comply with decommunization laws.