hromada

Noun

hromada (plural hromadas or hromady)

1. A basic unit of administrative division in Ukraine, similar to a municipality.
   • Levels in oblasts and cities were below 10 percent of total expenditure (Table 3.6). Only Kyiv among cities managed to allocate more than 10 percent of expenditures to investment. The higher levels of investment activity were taking place in the hromada, where much of the State subsidies were...2017 October, International Monetary Fund, Ukraine: Technical Assistance Report—Fiscal Decentralization and Legal Framework for Fiscal Risk Management and Medium-term Budgeting (IMF Country Report...
   • Launched in April 2014, shortly after the illegal annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation and the outbreak of violence in eastern Ukraine, the reform of decentralization primarily aims at transferring a significant share of authority, resources, and responsibility to local self-government...2020, Maryna Rabinovych, Hanna Shelest, “Introduction: Regional Diversity, Decentralization, and Conflict in and around Ukraine”, in Hanna Shelest, Maryna Rabinovych, editors, Decentralization...
2. A Ukrainian community.
   • Ukrainian Student Magazine. […] c/o N.Y.C.Ukrainian student hromada.1972, Бібліографічний показгчик української преси поза мезгами України, volumes 7–9, →OCLC, page 33
   • Some 70 people, mostly youths and students who were joined by area adults and Ukrainian clergy, took part in the Hryhoriy Skovoroda Student Hromada sponsored action. […] Roksolana Stojko, SUSTA public relations co-director and the hromada’s president, told the Newark Star-Ledger’s reporter that the...1978, Mykola P. Novak, Guardians of Ukraine: Historical Documentary and Memoirs, →OCLC, page 47
   1. (historical) An organization acting as part of a network of secret societies of Ukrainian intelligentsia that appeared soon after the Crimean War.
      • The 1863 hromada organized there by Vakhnianyn had dwindled so that by 1875 a Przemysl contributor to the newspaper Slovo wrote that regarding the national cause, Przemysl was frozen.1980, Ann Sirka, The Nationality Question in Austrian Education: The Case of Ukrainians in Galicia, 1867-1914, Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Ltd., →ISBN, page 124
      • These patriotic clubs corresponded with one another; individually, the hromadas gathered for talks on Ukrainian history and literature and commemorated national heroes such as Shevchenko and Markiian Shashkevych at musical and declamatory evenings and at memorial liturgical services.1983, John-Paul Himka, Socialism in Galicia: The Emergence of Polish Social Democracy and Ukrainian Radicalism (1860-1890), Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 197