Berdychiv_Raion

Berdychiv Raion

Berdychiv Raion

Subdivision of Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine

Berdychiv Raion (Ukrainian: Бердичівський район) is a raion (district) of Zhytomyr Oblast, northern Ukraine. Its administrative centre is located at Berdychiv. The raion is located in the southern part of the oblast; the distance between Zhytomyr and Berdychiv is 43 kilometres (27 mi). Population: 156,419 (2022 estimate).[1]

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On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Zhytomyr Oblast was reduced to four, and the area of Berdychiv Raion was significantly expanded. [2][3] Before the expansion, the area of the raion was 865.2 square kilometres (334.1 sq mi); after the expansion, the area of the raion is 3,018.5 square kilometres (1,165.4 sq mi). The January 2020 estimate of the raion population was 27,587 (2020 est.).[4]

Natural tourist objects

Demchynskyi and Rayhorodskiy park-memorials landscape of gardening art of local value, hydro-recreation resource of the river Hnylopiat.

The natives of the district

  • figure of the Polish national movement Edmund Różycki (vil. Ahativka)
  • doctor of Economic I.Oliynyk
  • opera singer G.Shapovalov (vil. Zhurbyntsi)
  • rector of Zhytomyr pedagogical institute P. Gornostai (vil. Ivankivtsi)
  • doctor of Biological S. Markevych (vil. Katerynivka)
  • doctor of Philological P.Bilous
  • Honored trainer of the USSR V.Lonskyi (vil. Obukhivka)
  • poet M. Pasichnyk (vil. Polovetske)
  • bibliographer and literary critic M.Gumenyuk (vil. Reia)
  • the Doctor of engineering, general I. Oliynyk (vil. Skraglivka)
  • doctor of Arts and Philosophy D. Stepovyk, (vil. Slobodshche)
  • doctor of biological Ye. Kondratyuk (vil. Old Solotvyn)
  • classic of English literature Joseph Conrad
  • author, memorialist Stefan Borovskyi (s. Terekhove)
  • corresponding member of Academy of Science of the USSR
  • a physicist, Hero of the Soviet Union V. Mostovyi (s. Khazhyn)
Berdychiv Raion in Zhytomyr Oblast (1966-2020)

References

  1. [1]
    Чисельність наявного населення України на 1 січня 2022 [Number of Present Population of Ukraine, as of January 1, 2022] (PDF) (in Ukrainian and English). Kyiv: State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 July 2022.
  2. [2]
    "Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ". Голос України (in Ukrainian). 2020-07-18. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
  3. [3]
    "Нові райони: карти + склад" (in Ukrainian). Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України.
  4. [4]
    Чисельність наявного населення України на 1 січня 2020 року / Population of Ukraine Number of Existing as of January 1, 2020 (PDF) (in Ukrainian and English). Kyiv: State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Archived (PDF) from the original on 28 September 2023.
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