title: PRESERVATION OF REGIONAL IDENTITY DURING THE ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM IN UKRAINE (IN EXAMPLE OF THE ODESSA REGION)
abstract: Throughout the history of Ukraine, there have been two opposite tendencies: a historical approach to regional division, which manifested itself in the formation of ideas about the cultural, ethnic, linguistic and other diversity of its historical lands, which for a long time were part of different states and a rational approach – the creation of such administrative-territorial units (provinces, voivodships, districts, regions), which would level regional differences and contribute to political c
journal: Odesa National University Herald Geography and Geology