Kamianets-Podilskyi Raion () is one of the three administrative

raions 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 co ...

(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

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. Its

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is located in the city of

Kamianets-Podilskyi Kamianets-Podilskyi (, ; ) is a city on the Smotrych River in western Ukraine, western Ukraine, to the north-east of Chernivtsi. Formerly the administrative center of Khmelnytskyi Oblast, the city is now the administrative center of Kamianets ...

. Population: On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Khmelnytskyi Oblast was reduced to three, and the area of Kamianets-Podilskyi Raion was significantly expanded. Three abolished raions, Chemerivtsi,

Dunaivtsi Dunaivtsi (, ; ; ) is a List of cities in Ukraine, city in Kamianets-Podilskyi Raion, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukraine. It is located on the river Ternavka, 22 km away from the railway station Dunaivtsi and 68 km from the Khmelnytskyi, Ukr ...

, and Nova Ushytsia Raions, as well as the city of Kamianets-Podilskyi, which was previously incorporated as a city of oblast significance and did not belong to the raion, were merged into Kamianets-Podilskyi Raion. The January 2020 estimate of the raion population was Its population was 75,506 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 is located in the southernmost part of the Khmelnytskyi Oblast, corresponding to the modern-day boundaries of

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historical region. To its west and south, the raion borders upon the

Ternopil Ternopil, known until 1944 mostly as Tarnopol, is a city in western Ukraine, located on the banks of the Seret River. Ternopil is one of the major cities of Western Ukraine and the historical regions of Galicia and Podolia. The populatio ...

and

Chernivtsi Oblast Chernivtsi Oblast (), also referred to as Chernivechchyna (), is an oblast (province) in western Ukraine, consisting of the northern parts of the historical regions of Bukovina and Bessarabia. It has an international border with Romania and Moldo ...

s, respectfully. It is the largest raion of the oblast, with an area of constituting 7.5 percent of the oblast's area. A total of seven rivers flow through the raion, including the

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and

Smotrych River The Smotrych (, ) is a left tributary of the Dniester, flowing through the Podillia upland of western Ukraine. Its length is 168 km (104 mi), and its drainage basin covers 1,800 km2 (694 mi2).Dovzhok Raion'' (), established on March 7, 1923 as part of an administrative reorganization of the

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. Dovzhok Raion was one of 16 districts of the

Kamianets Okruha Kamianets Okruha (, ) was one of the administrative units (an '' okruha'') of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic from 1923–1930 and again from 1935–1937. A large portion of the former okruhas territory is now part of the Kamianets-Podil ...

(at the time '' okruhas'' were the first-level of administrative division of the Ukrainian SSR). On December 4, 1928, the raion's administrative center was moved from the village of Dovzhok to Kamianets-Podilskyi, facilitating the renaming of the district to Kamianets-Podilskyi Raion. For the next few years the raion's territory kept expanding, until it was dissolved on December 26, 1934. At that time, the raion was placed under the jurisdiction of the Kamianets-Podilskyi City Municipality, although '' de facto'' the raion continued to exist. This decision was reversed on June 28, 1939, when Dovzhok Raion was re-established. On July 10, 1944, the raion's administrative center was yet again moved to Kamianets-Podilskyi. Over the next 20 years, the raion's territory slowly kept expanding with the annexation of neighboring raion until January 4, 1965, when its modern-day boundaries were established.

Subdivisions

Current

After the reform in July 2020, the raion consisted of 15

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s: * Chemerivtsi settlement hromada with the administration in the

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of Chemerivtsi, transferred from Chemerivtsi Raion; * Dunaivtsi urban hromada with the administration in the city of

, transferred from Dunaivtsi Raion; * Hukiv rural hromada with the administration in the selo of Hukiv, transferred from Chemerivtsi Raion; * Humentsi rural hromada with the administration in the selo of Humentsi, retained from Kamianets-Podilskyi Raion; *

Kamianets-Podilskyi urban hromada Kamianets-Podilskyi urban territorial hromada () is one of Ukraine's hromadas, located within Kamianets-Podilskyi Raion within the country's western Khmelnytskyi Oblast. The capital is the city of Kamianets-Podilskyi Kamianets-Podilskyi ...

with the administration in the city of

, transferred from the city of oblast significance of Kamianets-Podilskyi; * Kytaihorod rural hromada with the administration in the selo of Kytaihorod, retained from Kamianets-Podilskyi Raion; * Makiv rural hromada with the administration in the selo of Makiv, transferred from Dunaivtsi Raion; * Nova Ushytsia settlement hromada with the administration in the rural settlement of Nova Ushytsia, transferred from Nova Ushytsia Raion; * Novodunaivtsi settlement hromada with the administration in the rural settlement of

, transferred from Dunaivtsi Raion; * Orynyn rural hromada with the administration in the selo of Orynyn, retained from Kamianets-Podilskyi Raion; * Slobidka-Kulchiievetska rural hromada with the administration in the selo of Slobidka-Kulchiievetska, retained from Kamianets-Podilskyi Raion; * Smotrych settlement hromada with the administration in the rural settlement of Smotrych, transferred from Dunaivtsi Raion; * Stara Ushytsia settlement hromada with the administration in the rural settlement of

Stara Ushytsia Stara Ushytsia (; ; ) is a rural settlement in Kamianets-Podilskyi Raion, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, western Ukraine. Stara Ushytsia hosts the administration of Stara Ushytsia settlement hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. The settlement's popula ...

, retained from Kamianets-Podilskyi Raion; * Zakupne settlement hromada with the administration in the rural settlement of Zakupne, transferred from Chemerivtsi Raion; *

Zhvanets rural hromada Zhvanets () is a village (a '' selo'') in Kamianets-Podilskyi Raion (district) of Khmelnytskyi Oblast in western Ukraine Western Ukraine or West Ukraine (, ) refers to the western territories of Ukraine. There is no universally accepted ...

with the administration in the selo of

Zhvanets Zhvanets () is a village (a ''Village#Ukraine, selo'') in Kamianets-Podilskyi Raion (Raions of Ukraine, district) of Khmelnytskyi Oblast in western Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Zhvanets rural hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. The ...

, retained from Kamianets-Podilskyi Raion.

Before 2020

The Kamianets-Podilskyi Raion is divided in a way that follows the general administrative scheme in Ukraine.

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is also organized along a similar scheme nationwide. Consequently, raions were subdivided into

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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 small amount of rural localities were organized into councils, which might also contain a few villages within its jurisdiction. Accordingly, the Kamianets-Podilskyi Raion was divided into: * 1 settlement council—made up of the

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; * 42 village councils Overall, before 2020 the raion had a total of 122 populated localities, consisting of one urban-type settlement, 120 villages, and one

. Before the 2020 reform, the raion consisted of six hromadas: * Humentsi rural hromada with the administration in Humentsi; * Kytaihorod rural hromada with the administration in Kytaihorod; * Orynyn rural hromada with the administration in Orynyn; * Slobidka-Kulchiievetska rural hromada with the administration in Slobidka-Kulchiievetska; * Stara Ushytsia settlement hromada with the administration in Stara Ushytsia; * Zhvanets rural hromada with the administration in Zhvanets.

Places of interest

* Kamianets-Podilskyi Old Town, the administrative center's

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neighborhood *

Kamianets-Podilskyi Castle The Kamianets-Podilskyi Castle (; ; ) is a former Ruthenian-Lithuanian castle and a later three-part Polish fortress located in the historic city of Kamianets-Podilskyi, Ukraine, in the historic region of Podilia in the western part of the count ...

, situated in the Smotrych River canyon in Kamianets-Podilskyi *

Podilski Tovtry National Nature Park The Podilski Tovtry National Nature Park () is a national park, located in Khmelnytskyi and Kamianets-Podilskyi Raions (districts) of Khmelnytskyi Oblast (province) in the southern region of the western Ukraine. It is the largest nature conservat ...

, also shared with

Khmelnytskyi Raion Khmelnytskyi Raion () is one of the three administrative raions (districts) of Khmelnytskyi Oblast in western Ukraine. Its administrative center is the city of Khmelnytskyi. Population: On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of ...

* Bakota Cave Monastery, located in the former village of Bakota

References

External links

* * {{Authority control Raions of Khmelnytskyi Oblast States and territories established in 1923 States and territories disestablished in 1934 1923 establishments in Ukraine