Podilsk Explained

Official Name:Podilsk
Native Name:Подільськ
Settlement Type:City
Pushpin Map:Ukraine Odesa Oblast#Ukraine
Coordinates:47.7419°N 29.535°W
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Type1:Oblast
Subdivision Name1:Odesa Oblast
Subdivision Type2:Raion
Subdivision Name2:Podilsk Raion
Subdivision Type3:Hromada
Subdivision Name3:Podilsk urban hromada
Area Total Km2:25.44
Elevation M:248
Population Total:39220
Population As Of:2022
Population Density Km2:auto
Blank Name:Climate
Blank Info:Dfb
Utc Offset:+2
Postal Code Type:Postal code
Postal Code:66300—314
Area Code:+380-4862

Podilsk (Ukrainian: Подільськ, pronounced as /uk/; Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: Bârzula or Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: Bârzu), until May 2016 Kotovsk (Ukrainian: Котовськ,) is a city in Odesa Oblast, southern Ukraine. Administratively, Podilsk serves as the administrative center of Podilsk Raion, one of seven districts of Odesa Oblast. It also hosts the administration of Podilsk urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.[1]

It had a population of In 2001, it had a population of 40,718. It is the largest city in the northern part of Odesa Oblast.

History

Birzula was first mentioned in Ottoman documents in 1772 as one of the settlements of the Dubossar raya. The Russian-Italian physicist Gleb Wataghin was born in Birzula in 1899.[2]

The city is known as the place where Soviet military leader Grigori Kotovsky was buried in a mausoleum. In 1935, the city was renamed Kotovsk after him; formerly the settlement bore the name Birzula. The mausoleum was later destroyed during the Romanian occupation of Transnistria. The monument was (again) dismantled in June 2017 to comply with decommunization laws.[3]

A Vladimir Lenin statue in Kotovsk was pushed off its pedestal and broken into several pieces on 9 December 2013.[4] [5] [6] On 21 May 2016, Verkhovna Rada adopted decision to rename Kotovsk to Podilsk and Kotovsk Raion to Podilsk Raion according to the laws prohibiting names of Communist origin.[7]

Until 18 July 2020, Podilsk was incorporated as a city of oblast significance and served as the administrative center of Podilsk Raion though it did not belong to the raion. In July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Odesa Oblast to seven, the city of Podilsk was merged into Podilsk Raion.[8] [9]

Transportation

The city has a major railway station and depot on the OdesaZhmerynka line (a stretch of the Rozdilna—Poberezhzhia line).

Notable people

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Подольская городская громада . Портал об'єднаних громад України . ru.
  2. [:uk:Ватагін Гліб Васильович]
  3. News: 11 June 2017 . In the Odesa region, a monument to the participant of the "red terror" Kotovsky was dismantled . ru . .
  4. Web site: Лавина пішла: у Одеській області вночі зруйнували Леніна.
  5. Web site: Ukraine protests: Riot police storm offices of opposition party in. Independent.co.uk. 10 December 2013.
  6. Web site: Police: One more Lenin statue broken in Odesa region. Kyiv Post. 2014-01-04. 2015-04-22.
  7. News: Про перейменування деяких населених пунктів. 21 May 2016. Holos Ukrainy. uk. 1 June 2016.
  8. News: Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ.. 2020-10-03. 2020-07-18. Голос України. uk.
  9. Web site: Нові райони: карти + склад . Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України . Ukrainian.