Berdychiv Raion

Berdychiv District (Raion) (Ukrainian: Бердичівський район) is a raion (district) of Zhytomyr Oblast, northern Ukraine. Its administrative centre is located at Berdychiv, which does not belong to the raion and is incorporated separately as a city of oblast significance. The raion is located in the southern part of the oblast; the distance between Zhytomyr and Berdychiv is 43 kilometres (27 mi). It covers an area of 865.2 square kilometres (334.1 sq mi). Population: 29,234 (2013 est.)[1]

Berdychiv Raion

Бердичівський район
Raion
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Coordinates: 49°56′4″N 28°36′42″E
Country Ukraine
RegionZhytomyr Oblast
Admin. centerBerdychiv
Subdivisions
Area
 • Total865.2 km2 (334.1 sq mi)
Population
 (2013)
 • Total 29,234
Time zoneUTC+02:00 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+03:00 (EEST)
Area code+380

Natural tourist objects

Demchynskyi and Rayhorodskiy park-memorials landscape of gardening art of local value, hydro-recreation resource of the river Hnylopiat.

The natives of the district
  • figure of the Polish national movement Edmund Różycki (vil. Ahativka)
  • doctor of Economic I.Oliynyk
  • opera singer G.Shapovalov (vil. Zhurbyntsi)
  • rector of Zhytomyr pedagogical institute P. Gornostai (vil. Ivankivtsi)
  • doctor of Biological S. Markevych (vil. Katerynivka)
  • doctor of Philological P.Bilous
  • Honored trainer of the USSR V.Lonskyi (vil. Obukhivka)
  • poet M. Pasichnyk (vil. Polovetske)
  • bibliographer and literary critic M.Gumenyuk (vil. Reia)
  • the Doctor of engineering, general I. Oliynyk (vil. Skraglivka)
  • doctor of Arts and Philosophy D. Stepovyk, (vil. Slobodshche)
  • doctor of biological Ye. Kondratyuk (vil. Old Solotvyn)
  • classic of English literature Joseph Conrad
  • author, memorialist Stefan Borovskyi (s. Terekhove)
  • corresponding member of Academy of Science of the USSR
  • a physicist, Hero of the Soviet Union V. Mostovyi (s. Khazhyn)
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References
  1. Чисельність наявного населення України [Actual population of Ukraine] (in Ukrainian). State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
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