The cities of Uzhhorod, Yuzhne (Odesa Oblast), Slavutych (Kyiv Oblast), and Kyiv topped the Rating of Ukrainian Cities published by the rating agency of the analytical center of the Institute of Reforms. This is stated in the Institute's announcement, which is available to "proUA". \n \n"Slavutych and Yuzhne, each with a population not exceeding 25,000, are ahead of million-population cities; among the leaders of the rating there is not a single oblast center from left-bank Ukraine; the indicator of the specific number of students decreased in all cities of Donbas – such development trends were recorded by this year's Rating of Ukrainian Cities," the announcement says. \n \nAmong the oblast centers, alongside Uzhhorod, the most developed turned out to be other representatives of western Ukraine – Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, Lutsk, Rivne, Ternopil, and Chernivtsi, which occupy places in the top twenty of the rating. The rest of the leaders, with the exception of Boryspil and the oblast centers, are monofunctional cities, among which satellite cities of power plants predominate. From among the largest cities in the country by population, the positions following the capital were taken by Lviv and Dnipropetrovsk. \n \nThe Institute has been conducting a comparative analysis of Ukraine's socio-economic development at the level of cities of oblast significance for the second year in a row. This time the study covered \n \n176 cities, including Kyiv and Sevastopol. The analysis was conducted on the basis of the most recent official statistical data available as of January 10, 2005 (in most cases – data for the results of 2003, or as of the beginning of 2004).