Liubashivka Raion was a district 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 administ ...

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. Its administrative center was the

urban-type settlement Urban-type settlementrussian: посёлок городско́го ти́па, translit=posyolok gorodskogo tipa, abbreviated: russian: п.г.т., translit=p.g.t.; ua, селище міського типу, translit=selyshche mis'koho typu, ab ...

Liubashivka Liubashivka ( uk, Любаші́вка, , russian: Любашёвка) is an urban-type settlement in Podilsk Raion of Odesa Oblast (region), Ukraine, located of south-western Ukraine. Liubashivka hosts the administration of Liubashivka settlem ...

. In 2001 its population was 33,000. The raion was abolished on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Odesa Oblast to seven. The area of Liubashivka Raion was merged into

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. The last estimate of the raion population was At the time of disestablishment, the raion consisted of two hromadas: * Liubashivka settlement hromada with the administration in Liubashivka; * Zelenohirske settlement hromada with the administration in the urban-type settlement of Zelenohirske. The district was primarily Ukrainophone. Important rivers within Liubashika Raion included the Kodyma and Tylihul Rivers. The railway connecting

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and

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crossed the raion. It had two railway stations (in Zaplazy and Liubashivka). The district also lied on 2 highways — route

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; and route Chișinău (

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Urban-type settlements

* Zelenohirske

Natives

* Kostyantyn Voloshchuk (1916 — 1945) — Hero of the World War II from Liubashivka. * Vasil Savenko — opera singer. * Pavlo Ulitsky (1923 — 1996) — Hero of the World War II. * Rostyslav Paletsky (1932 — 1978) — artist. * Аlbin Havdzinsky — artist.

References

{{Authority control Former raions of Odesa Oblast 1926 establishments in Ukraine Ukrainian raions abolished during the 2020 administrative reform