Chemerivtsi Raion (, ) was one of the 20 administrative raions (a
''district'') of
Khmelnytskyi Oblast
Khmelnytskyi Oblast (), also known as Khmelnychchyna (), is an administrative divisions of Ukraine, oblast (province) in western Ukraine covering portions of the historical regions of western Podolia and southern Volhynia. The Capital (political) ...
in western
Ukraine
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. Its
administrative center
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was located in the urban-type settlement of
Chemerivtsi. Its population was 51,009 in the
2001 Ukrainian Census
The 2001 Ukrainian census is to date the only census of the population of independent Ukraine. It was conducted by the State Statistics Committee of Ukraine on 5 December 2001, twelve years after the last Soviet Union census in 1989.[Kamianets-Podilskyi Raion
Kamianets-Podilskyi Raion () is one of the three administrative Raions of Ukraine, raions (district) of Khmelnytskyi Oblast in western Ukraine. Its administrative center is located in the city of Kamianets-Podilskyi. Population:
On 18 July 2020, ...]
. The last estimate of the raion population was
Geography
Chemerivtsi Raion was located in the southwestern part of the Khmelnytskyi Oblast,
in the modern-day boundaries of the
Podolia
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Podolia is bordered by the Dniester River and Boh River. It features ...
historical region. Its total area constituted .
[ To its west, the raion bordered upon the neighboring ]Ternopil Oblast
Ternopil Oblast (), also referred to as Ternopilshchyna () or Ternopillia (), is an Oblasts of Ukraine, oblast (province) of Ukraine. Its Capital (political), administrative center is Ternopil, through which flows the Seret (river), Seret, a tribu ...
.
Subdivisions
At the time of disestablishment, the raion consisted of three hromada
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s:
History
Chemerivtsi Raion was first established on March 7, 1923 as part of a full-scale administrative reorganization of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
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,[ from the former territories of Vilkhivtsi and ]Berezhany
Berezhany ( ; ; ; , ''Bzhezhani''/''Bzhizhani'') is a small List of cities in Ukraine, city in Ternopil Raion, Ternopil Oblast, western Ukraine. It lies about from the administrative center of the oblast, Ternopil. Berezhany hosts the administr ...
volost
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History
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s (a former administrative division roughly equivalent to that of a modern raion).[
]
Administrative divisions
Chemerivtsi Raion was divided in a way that followed the general administrative scheme in Ukraine. Local government
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Local governments typically constitute a subdivision of a higher-level political or administrative unit, such a ...
was also organized along a similar scheme nationwide. Consequently, raions were subdivided into council
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s, which were the prime level of administrative division in the country.
Each of the raion's urban localities administered their own councils, often containing a few other villages within its jurisdiction. However, only a handful of rural localities were organized into councils, which also might contain a few villages within its jurisdiction.
Accordingly, the Chemerivtsi Raion was divided into:[
* 2 settlement councils—made up of the urban-type settlements of Chemerivtsi (administrative center) and Zakupne
* 33 village councils
Overall, the raion had a total of 70 populated localities, consisting of two urban-type settlements, and 68 villages.][
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References
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Former raions of Khmelnytskyi Oblast
States and territories established in 1923
1923 establishments in Ukraine
Ukrainian raions abolished during the 2020 administrative reform