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Mohyliv-Podilskyi Raion
Subdivision of Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Mohyliv-Podilskyi Raion (Ukrainian: Могилів-Подільський район) is one of the six raions (districts) of Vinnytsia Oblast, located in southwestern Ukraine. The administrative center of the raion is the city of Mohyliv-Podilskyi. Population: 139,828 (2022 estimate).[2]
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History
On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Vinnytsia Oblast was reduced to six, and the area of Mohyliv-Podilskyi Raion was significantly expanded.[3][4] The January 2020 estimate of the raion population was 31,793 (2020 est.).[5]
Geography
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Mohyliv-Podilskyi Raion is located in the southwest of Vinnytsia region. It borders Chernivtsi and Khmelnytskyi regions of Ukraine, and with Moldova. The area of the district is 3221.0 km2.[6]
While the raion contains many villages and rural-type settlements, there are only two cities in the district: Mohyliv-Podilskyi and Vendychany. There are additionally three urban-type settlements: Chernivtsi, Sloboda-Bushanska, and Murovani Kurylivtsi.[7][8]
Mohyliv-Podilskyi Raion district is located on the outhern slopes of Podilska upland. The relief of the district is an undulating plain, cut by river valleys, ravines, and gullies.[9]
The climate is moderately continental. Winter is cool, summer is not hot. The average temperature in July is +20 °C, in January −5 °C. The maximum precipitation falls in the summer in the form of rain. The average annual amount is from 520 to 590 mm, changing from west to east.[10]
Mohyliv-Podilskyi Raion is located in the Dniester valley, on its left side.[9]
Mohyliv-Podilskyi Raion is located in the forest-steppe natural zone. Among the trees in the forests, oaks and hornbeam dominate. Typical large mammals are elk, roe deer, wild boar, squirrels, beavers, hares and wolves. [11]
Mohyliv-Podilskyi Raion has reserves of limestone and sandstone.[12]
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Communities of the district
Number of settlements 195. Number of cities – 2. Mohyliv-Podilskyi Raion includes 7 territorial communities. It includes: urban - Mohyliv-Podilskyi and Yampilskyi; rural - Yaryshivskyi, Babchynetskyi; settlement - Vendychanskyi, Murovano-Kurylovetskyi, Chernivtsi.[6]
Transport
Mohyliv-Podilskyi Raion is crossed by railway tracks and highways by the Vinnytsia connection. Passes through Haisyn European route E583.[13][14]
Bibliography
- Національний атлас України/НАН України, Інститут географії, Державна служба геодезії, картографії та кадастру; голов. ред. Л. Г. Руденко; голова ред. кол.Б.Є. Патон. — К.: ДНВП «Картографія», 2007. — 435 с. — 5 тис.прим. — ISBN 978-966-475-067-4.
- Географічна енциклопедія України : [у 3 т.] / редкол.: О. М. Маринич (відповід. ред.) та ін. — К., 1989—1993. — 33 000 екз. — ISBN 5-88500-015-8.
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People from Mohyliv-Podilskyi Raion
References
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