Popilnia Raion ( uk, Попільнянський район) was a

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(district) of

Zhytomyr Oblast Zhytomyr Oblast ( uk, Жито́мирська о́бласть, translit=Zhytomyrska oblast), also referred to as Zhytomyrshchyna ( uk, Жито́мирщина}) is an oblast (province) of northern Ukraine. The administrative center of the obla ...

, northern

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. Its administrative centre was located at Popilnia. The raion covered an area of . The raion was abolished on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Zhytomyr Oblast to four. The area of Popilnia Raion was merged into

Zhytomyr Raion Zhytomyr Raion ( uk, Житомирський район) is a raion (district) of Zhytomyr Oblast, northern Ukraine. Its administrative centre is located at Zhytomyr. The raion covers an area of . Population: On 18 July 2020, as part of the adm ...

. The last estimate of the raion population was

Notable People

* Ivan Samoilovych (?—1690) — a native of Khodorkiv, hetman of the Zaporozhian Army, political and military figure. * Yosyp Viacheslavovych Yurkevych (1855—1910) — zemstvo doctor, owner of an estate in Kryvyi Rih. He built a school and the first power station in the village. * Maksym Rylskyi (1895—1964) — poet, scientist and public figure, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences and the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, twice winner of the USSR State Prize and the Lenin Prize. He spent his childhood and youth in the village of Romanivka. * Vitruk Andrii Nikiforovych (1902—1946) — attack pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union. He was born in the village of Andrushky. * Yevchenko Kasian (

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: Євченко Касян Дмитрович, 1925—2009) —

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, master of folk instruments, director of the ensembles "Huk", "Huchok" and "Huchenia", soloist, former member of the Hryhorii Veriovka National Honoured Folk Choir of Ukraine.

References

Former raions of Zhytomyr Oblast 1923 establishments in Ukraine Ukrainian raions abolished during the 2020 administrative reform {{Zhytomyr-geo-stub