Malyn District (Raion) ( uk, Малинський район) 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 co ...

(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

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. Its administrative centre was located at

Malyn Malyn ( uk, Ма́лин, Mályn) (sometimes spelled Malin) is a city in Zhytomyr Oblast (province) of Ukraine located about northwest of Kyiv. It served as the administrative center of Malyn Raion, now located in Korosten Raion. Population: ...

, which did not belong to the raion and was incorporated separately as a city of oblast significance. The raion covered an area of . The raion was abolished on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Zhytomyr Oblast to four. The area of Malyn Raion was merged into

Korosten Raion Korosten Raion ( uk, Коростенський район) is a raion (district) of Zhytomyr Oblast, northern Ukraine. Its administrative centre is Korosten. The raion covers an area of . It makes Korosten raion the largest by area in Ukraine. P ...

. The last estimate of the raion population was

Geography

It was situated in the north-eastern part of the Oblast. Distance Malyn to the Oblast center is a 102 km by highways.

Social and historic tourist objects

There is the row of sights of architecture and town-planning: Mykolaivska church in v. Vorsivka (in 1850), St. Mykhailyvska church in v Ukrainka (end of a ХІХc.); railway station in v. Chopovychi (the end of the ХІХc.).

References

External links

Find out Malyn District @ Ukrainian.Travel
Former raions of Zhytomyr Oblast 1923 establishments in Ukraine Ukrainian raions abolished during the 2020 administrative reform {{Zhytomyr-geo-stub