Kosiv Raion () is 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 c ...

(district) of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast of

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. The city of Kosiv is the administrative center of the raion. Its population is

Subdivisions

On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast was reduced to six, however, the area of Kosiv Raion was essentially unchanged. The January 2020 estimate of the raion population was Both before and after 2000, the raion consisted of five

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 Uk ...

s: * Kosiv urban hromada with the administration in the city of Kosiv; * Kosmach rural hromada with the administration in the selo of Kosmach; * Kuty settlement hromada with the administration in the rural settlement of Kuty; * Rozhniv rural hromada with the administration in the selo of Rozhniv; * Yabluniv settlement hromada with the administration in the rural settlement of Yabluniv.

General information

The district is located in the Precarpathian region of

. The total area is 903 km² with 91,100 inhabitants. The

climate Climate is the long-term weather pattern in a region, typically averaged over 30 years. More rigorously, it is the mean and variability of meteorological variables over a time spanning from months to millions of years. Some of the meteoro ...

is moderately continental. The mountains go up to 1000 m above the sea level in the mountainous part of the raion. There are a few big rivers among the mountains: Cheremosh — 80 km, Pistynka — 56 km, Rybnytsa — 54 km. Archaeological finds show that the territory of the raion was inhabited from the

Neolithic The Neolithic or New Stone Age (from Ancient Greek, Greek 'new' and 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Mesopotamia, Asia, Europe and Africa (c. 10,000 BCE to c. 2,000 BCE). It saw the Neolithic Revo ...

times. The first written information about Kosiv is from 1424. Firstly, the town was called Rykiv, and only later it was renamed to Kosiv. Other old settlements of the raion are Kobaky (15th century), Kuty (1448), Vyzhnii Bereziv (1412).

Notable residents

Famous people that were born, lived or worked in Kosiv district: * Marko Cheremshyna (1874–1927) was a Ukrainian writer of Hutsul background. * Dmytro Pavlychko (1929–2023) is a Ukrainian poet, translator, scriptwriter, culturologist, political and public figure, and dissident.

References

Sources

Kosiv Raion Rada

Kosiv Information

Kosiv Art
{{Authority control Raions of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast 1939 establishments in Ukraine