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Varash Raion
Varash Raion () is a Raions of Ukraine, raion (district) of Rivne Oblast, Ukraine. It was created on 18 July 2020 as part of the reform of administrative divisions of Ukraine. The center of the raion is the city of Varash. Retrieved 2020-10-03 Population: Geography The area of the district is 3323.5 km2. The district borders thethe Sarny Raion, Sarny and Rivne Raion, Rivne districts of the Rivne Oblast, as well as the Volyn Oblast, Volyn region of Ukraine and Belarus.Національний атлас України, 42 Retrieved 2025-06-24. The relief of the district is flat, partly lowland, covered with pine and oak forests. There are large areas of swamps. Varash Raion has reserves of silt, sapropel, peat, rovno amber. The larger area of the district is located in the Polesian Lowland in Polesia. Varash Raion is located in the basin of the Pripyat (river), Pripyat River, which flows in the north of the raion. The right tributary of the Pripyat, the Styr, flows from south ...
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Raions Of Ukraine
A raion (; ), often translated as district, is the second-level Administrative divisions of Ukraine, administrative division in Ukraine. Raions were created in a 1922 administrative reform of the Soviet Union, to which Ukraine, as the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, belonged. On 17 July 2020, the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's parliament) approved an administrative reform to merge most of the 490 raions, along with the "City of regional significance (Ukraine), cities of regional significance", which were previously outside the raions, into just 136 reformed raions. Most tasks of the raions (education, healthcare, sport facilities, culture, and social welfare) were taken over by new hromadas, the subdivisions of raions.Where did 354 ...
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Sapropel
Sapropel (a contraction of Ancient Greek words ''sapros'' and ''pelos'', meaning putrefaction and mud (or clay), respectively) is a term used in marine geology to describe dark-coloured sediments that are rich in organic matter. Organic carbon concentrations in sapropels commonly exceed 2 wt.% in weight. The term sapropel events may also refer to cyclic oceanic anoxic events (OAE), in particular those affecting the Mediterranean Sea with a periodicity of about 21,000 years. Formation Sapropels have been recorded in the Mediterranean sediments since the closure of the Eastern Tethys Ocean 13.5 million years ago. The formation of sapropel events in the Mediterranean Sea occurs approximately every 21,000 years and last between 3,000 and 5,000 years. The first identification of these events occurred in the mid-20th century. Since then, their formulative conditions of have been investigated. The occurrence of sapropels has been related to the Earth's orbital parameters (Milankovit ...
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Zarichne Settlement Hromada
Zarichne may refer to the following localities in Ukraine: * Zarichne, Rivne Oblast, a town in Varash Raion * Zarichne, Donetsk Oblast, a town in Kramatorsk Raion until 2016 known as Kirovsk * Zarichne, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, a settlement in Samar Raion Samar Raion (), until 2024 known as Novomoskovsk Raion (), is a Raions of Ukraine, raion (district) of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, southeastern-central Ukraine. Its administrative centre is located at Samar, Ukraine, Samar. Population: On 18 July 202 ... till 2024 known as Hvardiiske * Zarichne Raion, Rivne oblast See also * Zarichne barracks airstrike {{SIA, populated places in Ukraine ...
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Volodymyrets Settlement Hromada
Volodymyrets (; ; ) is a rural settlement in Rivne Oblast (province) in western Ukraine. The town was also formerly he administrative center of Volodymyrets Raion (district), housing the district's local administration buildings until the raion's abolition, but is now administered within Varash Raion. Its population is 8,699 as of the 2001 Ukrainian Census. Current population: The settlement is located at the confluence of the Styr and Horyn rivers. History Volodymyrets was first founded in ancient Kievan Rus' times, and it acquired the status of an urban-type settlement in 1957. On 26 January 2024, a new law entered into force which abolished this status, and Volodymyrets became a rural settlement. Notable people * Max Kidruk — Ukrainian writer. * Lesia Tsurenko Lesia Viktorivna Tsurenko (; born 30 May 1989) is a Ukrainian inactive professional tennis player. Tsurenko has won four singles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as ten singles and eight doubles tournaments o ...
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Antonivka Rural Hromada
Antonivka () can refer to any of several places in Ukraine: Rural settlements Kherson Oblast * Antonivka, Kherson Raion * Antonivka, Skadovsk Raion Villages Autonomous Republic of Crimea * Antonivka, Dzhankoi Raion Cherkasy Oblast * Antonivka, Lypianka rural hromada * Antonivka, Talne urban hromada * Antonivka, Uman Raion Chernihiv Oblast * Antonivka, Chernihiv Oblast Dnipropetrovsk Oblast * Antonivka, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Donetsk Oblast * Antonivka, Donetsk Oblast Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast * Antonivka, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast Kharkiv Oblast * Antonivka, Berestyn Raion Kherson Oblast * Antonivka, Kakhovka Raion Khmelnytskyi Oblast * Antonivka, Chemerivtsi settlement hromada * Antonivka, Chornyi Ostriv settelement hromada * Antonivka, Dunaivtsi urban hromada * Antonivka, Letychiv settlement hromada * Antonivka, Nova Ushytsia settlement hromada * Antonivka, Pluzhne hromada, Shepetivka Raion Shepetivka Raion () is a raion in Khmelnytskyi Oblast in Ukraine. Its administrative center is ...
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Varash Urban Hromada
Varash urban territorial hromada () is a hromada located in Ukraine's western Rivne Oblast. The administrative centre of the hromada is the city of Varash. , the hromada has a population of , and it additionally has an area of . The hromada was previously an amalgamated hromada. Settlements In addition to the capital city of Varash, there are 17 settlements in the hromada, of which all are villages: History On 15 January 2023, the Varash urban hromada was one of nine hromadas in Rivne Oblast to receive a bus and humanitarian aid from German bus company ''Meso and More''. According to Vitaliy Koval, Governor of Rivne Oblast, the bus was given to local educational institutions for transportation of students and teachers. See also * List of hromadas of Ukraine References {{DEFAULTSORT:Varash urban hromada Hromadas of Rivne Oblast ...
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Hromada
In Ukraine, a hromada () is the main type of municipality and the third level Administrative divisions of Ukraine, local self-government in Ukraine. The current hromadas were established by the Cabinet of ministers of Ukraine, Government of Ukraine on 12 June 2020. A municipality is designated ''urban hromada'' if its administration is located in a city; ''settlement hromada'' if it is located in a settlement (''selyshche''), and ''rural hromada'' if it is located in a village (Village#Ukraine, ''selo'') or a ''selyshche''. Hromadas are grouped to form Raions of Ukraine, raions (districts); groups of raions form Oblasts of Ukraine, oblasts (regions). Optionally, a municipality may be divided into Starosta okruh, starosta okruhs (similar to Civil parish, civil parishes in Great Britain or Frazione, frazioni in Italy), which are the lowest level of local government in Ukraine. Similar terms exist in Poland (''gromada'') and in Belarus (''hramada''). The literal translation of th ...
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Rivne Nature Reserve
The Rivne Nature Reserve ( Nature Reserve) is a strict nature reserve in the northwest of Ukraine, created to protect and study the representative landscape of the Polissia region. It was established by the President of Ukraine, Leonid Danylovych Kuchma, on April 3, 1999. In accordance with the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on August 14, 2003, the reserve was permanently transferred to a land area of 42,288 km2. Topography The territory of the reserve consists of four separate areas which have had Conservation status since 1984: * Landscape Area: "White Lake" (Volodymyretska district) * Zoological Area: "Perebrodivskyy" (Dubrovitsky and Rokytnivskyi districts) * Botanical Area: "Sira Poguonya" (Rokytnivskyi district) * Hydrological Area: "Somyno" (Sarny district) This is the largest area Ukraine has taken under protection, and the best preserved area of bog massifs. The reserve was created to preserve the natural state of typical and unique natural comp ...
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Styr
The Styr (; ; ) is a right tributary of the Pripyat, with a length of . Its basin area is and located in the historical region of Volhynia. The Styr begins near Brody, Lviv Oblast, then flows into Rivne Oblast, Volyn Oblast, then into Brest Region of Belarus where it finally flows into the Pripyat. Notable settlements located on the river are Lutsk, Staryi Chortoryisk and Varash. History During the Khmelnytskyi Uprising, the Battle of Berestechko took place in 1651 on the river between armies of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Cossacks of Bohdan Khmelnytsky. During 1915–1916, the Styr river was the front line between the Austro-Hungarian and Imperial Russian armies. The river was also a barrier to the German invasion on June 22, 1941, during Operation Barbarossa on the South-Western Front. Tributaries * Left: Radostavka, Sudylivka, Chornohuzka, , Serna, Liutytsia, Okinka, Richytsia, Zhyduvka, Omelianyk * Right: Ikva, Slonivka, Pliashivka, Bol ...
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Pripyat (river)
The Pripyat or Prypiat is a river in Eastern Europe. The river, which is approximately long, flows east through Ukraine, Belarus, and into Ukraine again, before draining into the Dnieper at Kyiv Reservoir. Name etymology Max Vasmer notes in his etymological dictionary that the historical name of the river mentioned in the earliest East Slavic document, the ''Primary Chronicle'', is ''Pripet (), and cites the opinion of other linguists that the name meant "tributary", comparing with Greek and Latin roots. He also rejects some opinions which were improperly based on the stem ''-pjat'', rather than original . The name may also derive from the local word ''pripech'' used for a river with sandy banks. Geography The Pripyat begins in the Volhynian Upland, between the villages of and in Volyn Oblast, Ukraine. 204 km downstream, it crosses the border of Belarus, where it travels 500 km through Polesia, Europe's largest wilderness, within which lie the vast sandy wetlands k ...
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Polesia
Polesia, also called Polissia, Polesie, or Polesye, is a natural (geographic) and historical region in Eastern Europe within the East European Plain, including the Belarus–Ukraine border region and part of eastern Poland. This region should not be confused with parts of Russia also traditionally called "Polesie". Extent One of the largest forest areas on the continent, Polesia is located in the southwestern part of the Eastern-European Lowland, the Polesian Lowland. On the western side, Polesia includes the crossing of the Bug River valley in Poland and the Pripyat River valley of Western Ukraine. The westernmost part of the region, located in Poland and around Brest, Belarus, historically also formed part of the historic region of Podlachia, and is also referred to as such. The modern Polish part was not considered part of Polesia by the late 19th-century '' Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland'', which defined the region as roughly a triangle between ...
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