Ukraine Updated KATOTTH. Is Your Address Database Keeping Up?

On 22 June 2026, Ukraine's Ministry of Development of Communities and Territories issued Order No. 1193, introducing another round of changes to KATOTTH — the national codifier of administrative-territorial units. This update changed the category of settlements: a number of populated places previously classified as type “Kh” (selyshche / settlement) were officially reclassified as type “S” (selo / village), among other changes.

It looks like a purely technical formality. In reality, every change like this quietly breaks the address data of any company that doesn't keep its reference directory updated daily.

What actually changed

KATOTTH assigns a single-letter code to the type of each administrative unit, including:

• “M” — city;
• “Kh” — settlement;
• “S” — village;
• “B” — district within a city.

Order No. 1193 changed the type of a portion of populated places. For the state, this is administrative housekeeping. For business, it means the “settlement type” field in your database may no longer match the official register.

Why this matters for business

An address is not just a line of text. It's a key identifier across logistics, finance, analytics and customer communications. When a settlement type goes stale, the consequences accumulate silently:

• incorrect address formatting for delivery and returns;
• errors when reconciling with state registers and tax reporting that require a KATOTTH code;
• distorted regional analytics and customer segmentation;
• rejections in automated integrations that validate addresses against the official directory.

A single outdated letter in a settlement type can halt the automated processing of thousands of records.

Address Book Ukraine: the changes are already in

In our reference directory Address Book Ukraine, the updates from Order No. 1193 are already applied. You don't need to track ministry orders, read hundred-row PDFs or patch your database manually — we've done it for you.

Address Book Ukraine is a digital reference directory that contains:

• 99.8% of Ukraine's postal and physical addresses;
• 29,705 populated places and 395,964 streets;
• over 16 million address rows with up-to-date type, postal index and KATOTTH;
• a renaming archive, territory status, GPS coordinates and the legacy KOATUU archive;
• Ukrainian language plus transliteration.

Most importantly — daily updates. Every legislative change flows into the directory without your involvement, available both via API and as a file export.

What this means for you in practice

• your address database always complies with current legislation — with no manual work;
• fewer returns, lower operational losses, more accurate delivery;
• correct data exchange with state registers and counterparties;
• clean analytics you can actually base decisions on.

Audit your database for free. We'll review a sample of your address data and show you how many records no longer match the current KATOTTH.

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