Kosiv Raion

Coordinates: 48°19′32″N 24°59′13″E / 48.32556°N 24.98694°E / 48.32556; 24.98694
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Kosiv Raion
Косівський район
Kosivskyi raion
Flag of Kosiv Raion
Coat of arms of Kosiv Raion
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Coordinates: 48°19′32″N 24°59′13″E / 48.32556°N 24.98694°E / 48.32556; 24.98694
Country Ukraine
Oblast Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast
Established1939
Admin. centerKosiv
Subdivisions5 hromadas
Government
 • GovernorYaroslav Shynkaruk
Area
 • Total903 km2 (349 sq mi)
Population
 (2022)[1]
 • Total83,700
 • Density93/km2 (240/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal index
285250
Area code+380
WebsiteOfficial website

Kosiv Raion (Ukrainian: Ко́сівський райо́н) is a raion (district) of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast of Ukraine. The city of Kosiv is the administrative center of the raion. Population: 83,700 (2022 estimate).[1]

Subdivisions[edit]

Kosiv Raion in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (1966-2020)

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.[2][3] The January 2020 estimate of the raion population was 86,615 (2020 est.)[4]

Both before and after 2000, the raion consisted of five hromadas:[5]

General information[edit]

The district is located in the Precarpathian region of Ukraine. The total area is 903 km2 with 91,100 inhabitants.

The climate is moderately continental.

The mountains go up to 1000 m above the sea level in the mountainous part of the raion. There are 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 times. First written information about Kosiv is from 1424. Firstly, the town was called Rykiv, and only latter it was renamed to Kosiv. Other old settlements of the raion are Kobaky (15th century), Kuty (1448), Vyzhnii Bereziv (1412).

Notable residents[edit]

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[edit]

  1. ^ a b Чисельність наявного населення України на 1 січня 2022 [Number of Present Population of Ukraine, as of January 1, 2022] (PDF) (in Ukrainian and English). Kyiv: State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 July 2022.
  2. ^ "Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ". Голос України (in Ukrainian). 2020-07-18. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
  3. ^ "Нові райони: карти + склад" (in Ukrainian). Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України.
  4. ^ Чисельність наявного населення України на 1 січня 2020 року / Population of Ukraine Number of Existing as of January 1, 2020 (PDF) (in Ukrainian and English). Kyiv: State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Archived (PDF) from the original on 28 September 2023.
  5. ^ "Косівська районна рада (состав до 2020 г.)" (in Russian). Портал об'єднаних громад України.

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