Podilsk ( uk, Поді́льськ, ; ro, Bârzula or ), until May 2016 Kotovsk ( uk, Котовськ,
Russian: Котовск) is a city in
Odesa Oblast, southern
Ukraine. Administratively, Podilsk is incorporated as a
town of oblast significance. It also serves as the administrative center of
Podilsk Raion
Podilsk Raion ( uk, Подільський район; ro, Raionul Bârzula), known until 2015 as Kotovsk Raion ( uk, Котовський район), is a raion (district) in Odesa Oblast of Ukraine. Its administrative center is the town of Pod ...
, one of twenty-six districts of Odesa Oblast, though it is not a part of the district.
It had a population of . In 2001, it had a population of 40,718. It is the largest city in the northern part of Odesa Oblast.
History
Birzula was first mentioned in Turkish documents in 1772 as one of the settlements of the Dubossar
raya. The Russian-Italian physicist
Gleb Wataghin was born in Birzula in 1899.
The city is known as the place where Soviet military leader
Grigori Kotovsky was buried in a
mausoleum
A mausoleum is an external free-standing building constructed as a monument enclosing the interment space or burial chamber of a deceased person or people. A mausoleum without the person's remains is called a cenotaph. A mausoleum may be consid ...
. In 1935, the city was renamed Kotovsk after him; formerly the settlement bore the name Birzula. The mausoleum was later destroyed during the
Romanian occupation of Transnistria. The monument was (again) dismantled in June 2017 to comply with
decommunization laws.
A
Vladimir Lenin statue in Kotovsk was pushed off its pedestal and
broken into several pieces on December 9, 2013.
On 21 May, 2016,
Verkhovna Rada adopted decision to rename Kotovsk to Podilsk and Kotovsk Raion to
Podilsk Raion
Podilsk Raion ( uk, Подільський район; ro, Raionul Bârzula), known until 2015 as Kotovsk Raion ( uk, Котовський район), is a raion (district) in Odesa Oblast of Ukraine. Its administrative center is the town of Pod ...
according to the
laws prohibiting names of Communist origin.
Transportation
The city has a major railway station and depot on the
Odesa—
Zhmerynka line (a stretch of the Razdelnaya—Poberezhye line).
Gallery
File:Гостиница Спутник.jpg, Suputnyk Hotel in Podilsk
File:Универсам.jpg, Podilsk supermarket
File:У парку Шевченка, Подільськ.jpg, City park
See also
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List of cities in Ukraine
References
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Cities in Odesa Oblast
Kherson Governorate
City name changes in Ukraine
Former Soviet toponymy in Ukraine
Cities in Podilsk Raion