Stepanets I. The regional measurement of the Ukrainian territorial structure of power

The work outlines the regional measurement of transformation in the territorial organization of the power in Ukraine, in a context of decentralization. The expediency of applying the socio-geographical researches on the transformation of the territorial organization of power, including the results of the local self-government reforms, has been substantiated. The conceptual-categorical apparatus has been systematized, the analysis of the transformation principles in the territorial organization of the Ukrainian power has been carried out. An authorized periodization of historical and geographical development of the territorial power organization in modern Ukraine has been suggested and the foreign experience of the power decentralization has been analyzed. Four factor groups of transformation in the territorial power organization have been allocated and the influence of the factors has been evaluated on the regional level. The author's research on the interconnection between population and local self-government (in the conditions of the last ones being reformed) has been developed and conducted. The grouping and typing of the regions have been carried out , based on the analysis of the research results. The author developed and proposed the set of recommendations (according to groups and types of region), which are based on the identified problems and questions, that arise in the newly created local administrative-territorial entities.