Berdychiv Raion ( uk, Бердичівський район) is 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 ...
(district) of
Zhytomyr Oblast
Zhytomyr Oblast ( uk, Жито́мирська о́бласть, translit=Zhytomyrska oblast), also referred to as Zhytomyrshchyna ( uk, Жито́мирщина}) is an oblast (province) of northern Ukraine. The administrative center of the obla ...
, northern
Ukraine
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. Its administrative centre is located at
Berdychiv
Berdychiv ( uk, Берди́чів, ; pl, Berdyczów; yi, באַרדיטשעװ, Barditshev; russian: Берди́чев, Berdichev) is a historic city in the Zhytomyr Oblast (province) of northern Ukraine. Serving as the administrative center ...
. The raion is located in the southern part of the oblast; the distance between Zhytomyr and Berdychiv is . Population:
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.
Before the expansion, the area of the raion was ; after the expansion, the area of the raion is . The January 2020 estimate of the raion population was
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
Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, ; 3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Polish-British novelist and short story writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language; though he did not spe ...
* 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)
References
External links
Find out Berdychiv District @ Ukrainian.Travel
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Raions of Zhytomyr Oblast
1925 establishments in Ukraine