Kosiv Raion ( uk, Ко́сівський райо́н, translit=Kosiwśkyj rajon) 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 Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast ( uk, Іва́но-Франкі́вська о́бласть, translit=Ivano-Frankivska oblast), also referred to as Ivano-Frankivshchyna ( uk, Іва́но-Франкі́вщина), is an administrative divisions of Ukrain ...

Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...

. The city of

Kosiv Kosiv ( uk, Ко́сiв) is a city located in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, in western Ukraine. It is the administrative center of Kosiv Raion (district). Kosiv hosts the administration of Kosiv urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population: ...

is the administrative center of the raion. Population: .

Subdivisions

On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast was reduced to six, however, the area of Kosiv Raion was essentially unchanged. The January 2020 estimate of the raion population was Both before and after 2000, the raion consisted of five

hromada A hromada ( uk, територіальна громада, lit=territorial community, translit=terytorialna hromada) is a basic unit of administrative division in Ukraine, similar to a municipality. It was established by the Government of Ukra ...

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Kosiv urban hromada Kosiv ( uk, Ко́сiв) is a city located in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, in western Ukraine. It is the administrative center of Kosiv Raion (district). Kosiv hosts the administration of Kosiv urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Populati ...

with the administration in the city of

; *

Kosmach rural hromada Kosmach ( uk, Космач) is a village located in Kosiv Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Kosmach rural hromada, one of the hromada A hromada ( uk, територіальна громада, lit=territ ...

with the administration in the selo of

Kosmach Kosmach ( uk, Космач) is a village located in Kosiv Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Kosmach rural hromada, one of the hromada A hromada ( uk, територіальна громада, lit=territ ...

; * Kuty 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 ...

Kuty Kuty ( ua, Кути translit. ''Kuty'', german: Kutten, pl, Kuty, yi, קיטעוו translit. ''Kitev'', ro, Cuturi) is an urban-type settlement in Ukraine, on the Cheremosh river, in the Kosiv Raion of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast. It is one of the ...

; *

Rozhniv rural hromada Rozhniv rural territorial hromada ( uk, Рожнівська сільська територіальна громада, translit=Rozhnivska silska terytorialna hromada) is a hromada in Kosiv Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine. Its capital ...

with the administration in the selo of Rozhniv; *

Yabluniv settlement hromada Yabluniv ( uk, Яблунів, pl, Jabłonów, yi, יאבלונוב, Yablanov, russian: Яблонoв) is an urban-type settlement in Kosiv Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine. It is located on the banks of the river Luchka, from Kolomyi ...

with the administration in the

Yabluniv Yabluniv ( uk, Яблунів, pl, Jabłonów, yi, יאבלונוב, Yablanov, russian: Яблонoв) is an urban-type settlement in Kosiv Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine. It is located on the banks of the river Luchka, from Kolomyia ...

General information

The district is located in the Precarpathian region of

. The total area is 903 km² with 91,1 thousand inhabitants. The

climate Climate is the long-term weather pattern in an area, typically averaged over 30 years. More rigorously, it is the mean and variability of meteorological variables over a time spanning from months to millions of years. Some of the meteorologic ...

is moderately continental. The mountains go up to 1000 m above the sea level in the mountainous part of the raion. There are few big rivers among the mountains:

Cheremosh The Cheremosh River (, , ) is a river in western Ukraine, right-bank tributary of the river Prut. Description It is formed by confluence of two upper streams of the river ''Bilyi Cheremosh'' (White Cheremosh) and ''Chornyi Cheremosh'' (Black Che ...

— 80 km, Pistynka — 56 km, Rybnytsa — 54 km. Archaeological finds show that the territory of the raion was inhabited from the

Neolithic The Neolithic period, or New Stone Age, is an Old World archaeological period and the final division of the Stone Age. It saw the Neolithic Revolution, a wide-ranging set of developments that appear to have arisen independently in several parts ...

times. First written information about

is from 1424. Firstly, the town was called Rykiv, and only latter it was renamed to

. Other old settlements of the raion are Kobaky (15th century),

(1448), Vyzhnii Bereziv (1412).

Famous people

Famous people that were born, lived or worked in Kosiv district: *

Marko Cheremshyna Marko Cheremshyna ( uk, Марко Черемшина) (other name: Ivan Semaniuk, Іван Семанюк), (born 13 June 1874 in Kobaky, Galicia; died 25 April 1927 in Kobaky) was a Ukrainian writer of Hutsul background. Biography Cheremshy ...

(1874-1927) was a Ukrainian writer of Hutsul background. *

Dmytro Pavlychko Dmytro Pavlychko ( uk, Дмитро Васильович Павличко; born September 28, 1929) is a Ukrainian poet, translator, scriptwriter, culturologist, political and public figure. Biography Dmytro Pavlychko was born on September 2 ...

(1929) is a Ukrainian poet, translator, scriptwriter, culturologist, political and public figure, and dissident.

References

Sources

Kosiv Raion Rada

Kosiv Information

Kosiv Art
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