Podilsk ( uk, Поді́льськ, ; ro, Bârzula or ), until May 2016 Kotovsk ( uk, Котовськ,

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: Котовск) is a city in

Odesa Oblast Odesa Oblast ( uk, Оде́ська о́бласть, translit=Odeska oblast), also referred to as Odeshchyna ( uk, Оде́щина) is an oblast (province) of southwestern Ukraine, located along the northern coast of the Black Sea. Its administr ...

, southern

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. 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 Gleb Vassielievich Wataghin (November 3, 1899 in Birzula, Russian Empire – October 10, 1986 in Turin, Italy) was a Russian-Italian theoretical and experimental physicist and a great scientific leader who gave a great impulse to the teaching and r ...

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 Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov. ( 1870 – 21 January 1924), better known as Vladimir Lenin,. was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as the first and founding head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 19 ...

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

Verkhovna Rada The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine ( uk, Верхо́вна Ра́да Украї́ни, translit=, Verkhovna Rada Ukrainy, translation=Supreme Council of Ukraine, Ukrainian abbreviation ''ВРУ''), often simply Verkhovna Rada or just Rada, is the ...

adopted decision to rename Kotovsk to Podilsk and Kotovsk Raion to

according to the laws prohibiting names of Communist origin.

Transportation

The city has a major railway station and depot on the

Odesa Odesa (also spelled Odessa) is the third most populous city and municipality in Ukraine and a major seaport and transport hub located in the south-west of the country, on the northwestern shore of the Black Sea. The city is also the administrative ...

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Zhmerynka Zhmerynka ( uk, Жмеринка ) is a city in Vinnytsia Oblast (Oblast, province) of central Ukraine. Serving as the Capital city, administrative center of the Zhmerynka Raion (Raion, district), the town itself is not a part of the district and ...

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

References

{{Authority control Cities in Odesa Oblast Kherson Governorate City name changes in Ukraine Former Soviet toponymy in Ukraine Cities in Podilsk Raion

History

Transportation

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See also

References