Pohrebyshche Raion () 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 c ...

(

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) 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 ...

in west-central

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. The administrative center of the district was the town of

Pohrebyshche Pohrebyshche ( ) is a small List of cities in Ukraine, city in Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine. It served as the administrative center of Pohrebyshche Raion (Raion, district) until its abolishment in 2020, when it was incorporated into Vinnytsia Raion ...

. The raion was abolished and its territory was merged into Vinnytsia Raion on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Vinnytsia Oblast to six. The last estimate of the raion population was

Geography

Pohrebyshche Raion was situated on the Podillian forest-steppe area in the north-eastern part of

. To the north it bordered

Zhytomyr Oblast Zhytomyr Oblast (), also referred to as Zhytomyrshchyna (), is an Administrative divisions of Ukraine, oblast (province) in northwestern Ukraine. The administrative center of the oblast is the city of Zhytomyr. Its population is approximately H ...

( Ruzhyn Raion) and to the east

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( Skvyra Raion,

Volodarka Raion Volodarka Raion () was a raion (district) in Kyiv Oblast of Ukraine. Its administrative center was the urban-type settlement of Volodarka. The raion was abolished on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the ...

, Tetiiv Raion). The Ros River finds its source in the village of Ordyntsi, formerly in Pohrebyshche Raion.

History

Pohrebyshche Raion was formed on March 7, 1923 as a part of

Kiev Governorate Kiev Governorate was an administrative-territorial unit ('' guberniya'') of the Russian Empire (1796–1917), Ukrainian People's Republic (1917–18; 1918–1921), Ukrainian State (1918), and the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (1919–19 ...

, but on February 27, 1932, it was included in the newly formed

. Although the area of the raion has changed over the years. The biggest change was in 1963, when Plyskiv Raion was dissolved.

Subdivisions

There were one urban-type settlement, 57 villages, and five minor settlements in the Pohrebyshche Raion. There were one city council and 26 village councils.

Town

(Погребище)

Villages

Famous people from Pohrebyshche Raion

* Mykhailo Melnyk (1944, Ordyntsi – 1979), Ukrainian historian, poet and dissident * Valentyn Rechmedin, writer, journalist * , virtuoso guitarist * , a member of the Ukrainian Central Rada * , architect, and church figure of Transcarpathia * , scientist in the field of radio electronics

References

Notes

Sources

* Nina Hnatiuk: ''Vinnytchyna''. (Kiev 1998). . * Petro Tronko: ''Istoriya mist i sil Ukrainskoi RSR. Vinnytska oblast''. (Kiev 1972).
Pohrebyschenskyi Raion's page at Verkhovna Rada
{{Authority control Former raions of Vinnytsia Oblast 1923 establishments in Ukraine Ukrainian raions abolished during the 2020 administrative reform