Lypovets Raion ( uk, Липовецький район) was one of raions of
Vinnytsia Oblast, located in southwestern
Ukraine. The administrative center of the raion was the town of
Lypovets
Lypovets () is a town in Vinnytsia Raion of Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine. Until the Administrative reform of 2020 it served as the administrative center of Lypovets Raion now disestablished. Population:
History
It was the administrative cent ...
. 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
History
During
Holodomor
The Holodomor ( uk, Голодомо́р, Holodomor, ; derived from uk, морити голодом, lit=to kill by starvation, translit=moryty holodom, label=none), also known as the Terror-Famine or the Great Famine, was a man-made famin ...
more than 30 thousand people in Lypovets Raion died (population in 1932 was 105,394 inhabitants and in 1934 there lived the rest 74965 people).
[На чорній дошці. Голодомор на прикладі одного регіону. / О.І. Роговий. Вінниця : ТОВ «Меркьюрі-Поділля», 2019. — 164 с.; іл. — — p. 162.]
References
Former raions of Vinnytsia Oblast
1923 establishments in Ukraine
Ukrainian raions abolished during the 2020 administrative reform
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