Manevychi Raion () was a

raion A raion (also spelt rayon) is a type of administrative unit of several post-Soviet states. The term is used for both a type of subnational entity and a division of a city. The word is from the French (meaning 'honeycomb, department'), and is c ...

Volyn Oblast Volyn Oblast () or simply Volyn (), is an administrative divisions of Ukraine, oblast (province) in northwestern Ukraine. It borders Rivne Oblast to the east, Lviv Oblast to the south, Poland to the west and Belarus to the north. Its Capital city ...

in western

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. Its

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was the

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of Manevychi. The raion was abolished and its territory was merged into

Kamin-Kashyrskyi Raion Kamin-Kashyrskyi Raion () is a raion (district) in Volyn Oblast in western Ukraine. Its administrative center is the town of Kamin-Kashyrskyi. Population: On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of ...

on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Volyn Oblast to four. The last estimate of the raion population was

Notable residents

Zygmunt Sierakowski Zygmunt Erazm Gaspar Józef Sierakowski (, ; 19 May 1826, – 27 June 1863, Vilnius) was a Polish leader of the January Uprising in lands of the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Biography Youth and ed ...

(1826, Lisów – 1863) was one of the leaders of the

January Uprising The January Uprising was an insurrection principally in Russia's Kingdom of Poland that was aimed at putting an end to Russian occupation of part of Poland and regaining independence. It began on 22 January 1863 and continued until the last i ...

in lands of the former

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in the Polish–Lithuanian CommonwealthУладзімер Арлоў Імёны Свпбоды. Uladzimer Arloŭ The Names of Freedom
pp 66-67 (in Belarusian)

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Former raions of Volyn Oblast 1965 establishments in Ukraine Ukrainian raions abolished during the 2020 administrative reform {{Volyn-geo-stub

Notable residents

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