Podilsk (, ; or ), until May 2016 Kotovsk (; ) is a city in

Odesa Oblast Odesa Oblast (), also referred to as Odeshchyna (Одещина), is an administrative divisions of Ukraine, oblast (province) of southwestern Ukraine, located along the northern coast of the Black Sea. Its administrative centre is the city of Ode ...

, southern

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. Administratively, Podilsk serves as the administrative center of

Podilsk Raion Podilsk Raion (; ), known until 2015 as Kotovsk Raion (), is a raion (district) in Odesa Oblast of Ukraine. Its administrative center is the city of Podilsk. Population: On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the numb ...

, one of seven districts of Odesa Oblast. It also hosts the administration of Podilsk urban hromada, one of the

hromada In Ukraine, a hromada () is the main type of municipality and the third level Administrative divisions of Ukraine, local self-government in Ukraine. The current hromadas were established by the Cabinet of ministers of Ukraine, Government of Uk ...

s of Ukraine. 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 Ottoman documents in 1772 as one of the settlements of the Dubossar raya. The Russian-Italian physicist

Gleb Wataghin Gleb Wataghin (November 3, 1899 in Birzula, Russian Empire, now Podilsk, Odesa Region, Ukraine – October 10, 1986 in Turin, Italy) was an Italian theoretical and experimental physicist and a great scientific leader who gave a great impulse to ...

was born in Birzula in 1899. The city is known as the place where Soviet military leader Grigori Kotovsky was buried in a

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. In 1935, the city was renamed Kotovsk after him; formerly the settlement bore the name Birzula. The mausoleum was later destroyed during the

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. The monument was (again) dismantled in June 2017 to comply with decommunization laws. A

Vladimir Lenin Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov ( 187021 January 1924), better known as Vladimir Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician and political theorist. He was the first head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 until Death and state funeral of ...

statue in Kotovsk was pushed off its pedestal and broken into several pieces on 9 December 2013. On 21 May 2016,

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adopted decision to rename Kotovsk to Podilsk and Kotovsk Raion to

according to the laws prohibiting names of Communist origin. Until 18 July 2020, Podilsk was incorporated as a city of oblast significance and served as the administrative center of Podilsk Raion though it did not belong to the raion. In July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Odesa Oblast to seven, the city of Podilsk was merged into Podilsk Raion.

Demographics

According to the

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account for over 80% of the population, 10% refer to themselves as

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, and 5% are

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. The exact distribution of the population by ethnicity was: Native language composition according to the

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—

Zhmerynka Zhmerynka (, ) is a city in Vinnytsia Oblast, central Ukraine. It serves as the administrative center of Zhmerynka Raion within the oblast. Population: It is located in the historic region of Podolia. Name There are many propositions as far as ...

line (a stretch of the

Rozdilna Rozdilna (, , , ''Razdelnaya'') is a small city in Odesa Oblast, southern Ukraine. It serves as the administrative center of Rozdilna Raion, and was founded in 1863. Rozdilna hosts the administration of Rozdilna urban hromada, one of the hromadas ...

—Poberezhzhia line).

Notable people

Nikolai Morshen Nikolai Morshen (November 8, 1917 – July 31, 2001; rus, Никола́й Мо́ршен, p=nʲɪkɐˈlaj ˈmorʂən, real name Nikolai Nikolaevich Marchenko) was a Russian second-wave émigré poet and a translator of American poetry into Russ ...

, Russian second-wave émigré poet and translator of American poetry into Russian * Volodymyr Muntyan, Soviet and Ukrainian midfielder of the 1960s and 1970s *

Viktor Seliverstov Victor Seliverstov (, ; August 2, 1954, Podilsk, Odesa Oblast) is a Russian political figure and deputy of the 7th and 8th State Dumas. From 1971 to 1998, Seliverstov served at the Soviet Armed Forces and, later, Russian Armed Forces. From 199 ...

, Russian political figure and deputy of the 7th and 8th State Dumas *

, famous Ukrainian-Italian theoretical and experimental physicist * Valentyn Zghursky, head of the executive committee of the Kyiv City Council

Gallery

File:Podilsk 21.jpg, Podilla Hotel in Podilsk File:Podilsk 16.jpg, Pharmacy File:Shevchenko Park in Podilsk.jpg, City park

References

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