Urban-type settlement

Urban-type settlement (Russian: посёлок городско́го ти́па - posyolok gorodskogo tipa, abbreviated: п.г.т. - p.g.t.; Ukrainian: селище міського типу - selyshche mis'koho typu, abbreviated: с.м.т. - s.m.t.; Belarusian: пасёлак гарадскога тыпу; Polish: osiedle typu miejskiego; Bulgarian: селище от градски тип - selishte ot gradski tip) is an official designation for a semi-urban settlement (or a former town):

This type of locality has been used in all 15 member republics of the former Soviet Union since 1922 when it replaced a number of terms which could have been translated by the English term "town" (Russia - posad, Ukraine - mistechko, Belarus - miastechko (the latter two from Polish "", literally "small town") and others). It was introduced later in Poland (1954) and Bulgaria (1964). All the urban-type settlements in Poland were transformed into other types of settlement (town or village) in 1972, while in Bulgaria and 5 of the post-Soviet republics (namely Armenia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova) - in the early 1990s. Today this term is still used in the other 9 post-Soviet republics - Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan.

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