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.)) is an official designation for a semi-urban settlement used in some states of the former Soviet bloc.
This type of locality has been used in all 15 member republics of the former Soviet Union since 1922 when the term of posad was replaced by this one. It was introduced later in Poland (1954) and Bulgaria (1964). All the urban-type settlements in Poland were transformed in 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 10 post-Soviet republics - Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan.
Several specific criteria are associated with this settlement classification, which basically requires the settlement to have some sort of urban-like infrastructure.
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