Mohyliv-Podilskyi Raion () is one of the six
raions (districts) of
Vinnytsia Oblast
Vinnytsia Oblast (, ), also referred to as Vinnychchyna (), is an oblasts of Ukraine, oblast in central Ukraine. Its capital city, administrative center is Vinnytsia. The oblast has a population of
History
Vinnytsia Oblast, first established on ...
, located in southwestern
Ukraine
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. The administrative center of the raion is the city of
Mohyliv-Podilskyi
Mohyliv-Podilskyi (, ) is a city in Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine. It serves as the administrative center of Mohyliv-Podilskyi Raion within the oblast. It is located in the historic region of Podolia, on the border with Bessarabia, Moldova, along th ...
. Population:
History
On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Vinnytsia Oblast was reduced to six, and the area of Mohyliv-Podilskyi Raion was significantly expanded.
The January 2020 estimate of the raion population was
Geography
While the raion contains many villages and rural-type settlements, there are only two cities in the district: Mohyliv-Podilskyi and
Vendychany
Vendychany () is a rural settlement in Mohyliv-Podilskyi Raion of Vinnytsia Oblast in Ukraine. It is located in the steppe about southwest of the city of Vinnytsia. Vendychany hosts the administration of Vendychany settlement hromada, one of t ...
. There are additionally three urban-type settlements:
Chernivtsi
Chernivtsi (, ; , ;, , see also #Names, other names) is a city in southwestern Ukraine on the upper course of the Prut River. Formerly the capital of the historic region of Bukovina, which is now divided between Romania and Ukraine, Chernivt ...
,
Sloboda-Bushanska, and
Murovani Kurylivtsi
Murovani Kurylivtsi (, ) is a Populated places in Ukraine#Rural settlements, rural settlement in the southwestern part of Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine. It was formerly the administrative center of Murovani Kurylivtsi Raion, but is now administered wi ...
.
People from Mohyliv-Podilskyi Raion
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Serhiy Budza
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Volodymyr Didushytsky
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Raya Dunayevskaya
Raya Dunayevskaya (born Raya Shpigel, ; May 1, 1910 – June 9, 1987), later Rae Spiegel, also known by the pseudonym Freddie Forest, was the American founder of the philosophy of Marxist humanism in the United States. At one time Leon Trotsky's ...
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Oleksander Lototsky
References
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