There is another smaller type of rural settlement which is designated in Ukrainian as a
selyshche (). This type of community is often referred to in English as a "settlement". In the new law about
populated places in Ukraine the term "selyshche", has a specific meaning. In the past the word "selyshche" was more ambiguous and there were distinction between rural
selyshche and
selyshche miskoho typu (
urban-type settlement), abbreviated
smt in Ukrainian. There we also
dacha, fisherman, etc.
selyshches The
khutir () and
stanytsia () are not part of the
administrative division any longer, primarily due to
collectivization.
Khutirs were very small rural localities consisting of just few housing units and were sort of individual farms. They became really popular during the
Stolypin reform in the early 20th century. During the collectivization, however, residents of such settlements were usually declared to be
kulaks and had all their property confiscated and distributed to others (
nationalized) without any compensation. The
stanitsa likewise has not survived as an administrative term. The
stanitsa was a type of a collective community that could include one or more settlements such as villages,
khutirs, and others. Today,
stanitsa-type formations have only survived in
Kuban (
Russian Federation) where Ukrainians were resettled during the time of the
Russian Empire. According to the
2001 Ukrainian census, there were many thousands of villages across Ukraine. Currently, villages are one of the smallest and most basic type of
populated place in Ukraine, with the designation reserved by the
Verkhovna Rada, the country's parliament, for settlements with populations of less than 5,000 people. ==See also==