Kalush Raion ( uk, Ка́луський райо́н, translit=Kalushsky raion) is 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 Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (

province A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or state. The term derives from the ancient Roman '' provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire's territorial possessions ou ...

). The city of Kalush is the administrative center of the raion. Population: . On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast was reduced to six, and the area of Kalush Raion was significantly expanded. Two abolished raions,

Dolyna Dolyna ( uk, Доли́на, pl, Dolina, yi, דאלינע) is a city located in Kalush Raion of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (region) in south-western Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Dolyna urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Popul ...

and Rozhniativ Raions, as well as Bolekhiv Municipality and the city of Kalush, which was previously incorporated as a city of oblast significance and did not belong to the raion, were merged into Kalush Raion. The January 2020 estimate of the raion population was The raion was formed on October 28, 1963. In 1972 part of the raion became incorporated into the Kalush municipality. The oldest settlements in the Raion are Stankiv (1158), Zaviy (13th century), Holyn' (1391), and Novytsia (14th century). The leader of the

Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists The Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists ( uk, Організація українських націоналістів, Orhanizatsiya ukrayins'kykh natsionalistiv, abbreviated OUN) was a Ukrainian ultranationalist political organization esta ...

Stepan Bandera Stepan Andriyovych Bandera ( uk, Степа́н Андрі́йович Банде́ра, Stepán Andríyovych Bandéra, ; pl, Stepan Andrijowycz Bandera; 1 January 1909 – 15 October 1959) was a Ukrainian far-right leader of the radical, terr ...

, was born in Staryi Uhryniv in Kalush Raion, on January 1, 1909. Ivan Rubchak and the writer M. Kozonis were also born in Kalush Raion.

Subdivisions

Current

After the reform in July 2020, the raion consisted of 13 hromadas: * Bolekhiv urban hromada with the administration in the city of Bolekhiv, transferred from Bolekhiv Municipality; * Broshniv-Osada settlement hromada with the administration in the

urban-type settlement Urban-type settlementrussian: посёлок городско́го ти́па, translit=posyolok gorodskogo tipa, abbreviated: russian: п.г.т., translit=p.g.t.; ua, селище міського типу, translit=selyshche mis'koho typu, ab ...

of Broshniv-Osada, transferred from Rozhniativ Raion; * Dolyna urban hromada with the administration in the city of

, transferred from Dolyna Raion; * Duba rural hromada with the administration in the selo of Duba, transferred from Rozhniativ Raion; * Kalush urban hromada with the administration in the city of Kalush, transferred from the city of oblast significance of Kalush; * Novytsia rural hromada with the administration in the selo of Novytsia, retained from Kalush Raion; * Perehinske settlement hromada with the administration in the urban-type settlement of Perehinske, transferred from Rozhniativ Raion; * Rozhniativ settlement hromada with the administration in the urban-type settlement of Rozhniativ, transferred from Rozhniativ Raion; * Spas rural hromada with the administration in the selo of

Spas Spas or SPAS may refer to: * Spa, a therapeutic water treatment Geography *Spas, Russia, several rural localities in Russia * Spas, Lviv Raion, Lviv Oblast, a village in Lviv Raion in Lviv Oblast, Ukraine * Spas, Sambir Raion, Lviv Oblast, a vil ...

, transferred from Rozhniativ Raion; * Verkhnia rural hromada with the administration in the selo of Verkhnia, retained from Kalush Raion; * Voinyliv settlement hromada with the administration in the urban-type settlement of Voinyliv, retained from Kalush Raion; * Vyhoda settlement hromada with the administration in the urban-type settlement of Vyhoda, transferred from Dolyna Raion; * Vytvytsia rural hromada with the administration in the selo of Vytvytsia, transferred from Dolyna Raion.

Before 2020

Before the 2020 reform, the raion consisted of three hromadas: * Novytsia rural hromada with the administration in Novytsia; * Verkhnia rural hromada with the administration in Verkhnia; * Voinyliv settlement hromada with the administration in Voinyliv.

References

{{Authority control Raions of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast 1939 establishments in Ukraine