Manevychi Raion ( uk, Маневицький район) was a
raion
A raion (also spelt rayon) is a type of administrative unit of several post-Soviet states. The term is used for both a type of subnational entity and a division of a city. The word is from the French (meaning 'honeycomb, department'), and is co ...
in
Volyn Oblast
Volyn Oblast ( uk, Воли́нська о́бласть, translit=Volýnsʹka óblastʹ; also referred to as Volyn or Lodomeria) is an oblast (province) in northwestern Ukraine. Its administrative centre is Lutsk. Kovel is the westernmost town ...
in western
Ukraine
Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...
. Its
administrative center
An administrative center is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune is located.
In countries with French as administrative language (such as Belgium, Lu ...
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 ...
of
Manevychi. The raion was abolished and its territory was merged into
Kamin-Kashyrskyi Raion
Kamin-Kashyrskyi Raion ( uk, Камінь-Каширський район) is a raion in Volyn Oblast in western Ukraine. Its administrative center is the town of Kamin-Kashyrskyi. Population:
On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative refo ...
on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Volyn Oblast to four. The last estimate of the raion population was
Notable residents
*
Zygmunt Sierakowski
Zygmunt Sierakowski ( be, Зігмунт Ігнатавіч Серакоўскі, lt, Zigmantas Sierakauskas) (19 May 1826, Lisów – 27 June 1863, Vilnius) was a Polish leader of the January Uprising in lands of the former Grand Duchy of Lith ...
(1826, Lisów – 1863) was one of the leaders of the
January Uprising in lands of the former
Grand Duchy of Lithuania
The Grand Duchy of Lithuania was a European state that existed from the 13th century to 1795, when the territory was partitioned among the Russian Empire, the Kingdom of Prussia, and the Habsburg Empire of Austria. The state was founded by Lit ...
in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Уладзімер Арлоў Імёны Свпбоды. Uladzimer Arloŭ The Names of Freedom
pp 66-67 (in Belarusian)
See also
* Administrative divisions of Volyn Oblast Volyn Oblast is subdivided into districts (''raions'') which are subdivided into territorial communities ('' hromadas'').
Current
On 18 July 2020, the number of districts was reduced to four. These are:
# Kamin-Kashyrskyi (Камінь-Кашир ...
References
Former raions of Volyn Oblast
1965 establishments in Ukraine
Ukrainian raions abolished during the 2020 administrative reform
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