Berdychiv Raion
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Berdychiv Raion
Бердичівський район | |
|---|---|
 Flag  Coat of arms | |
 Interactive map of Berdychiv Raion | |
| Coordinates: 49°56′4″N 28°36′42″E / 49.93444°N 28.61167°E | |
| Country |  Ukraine |
| Oblast |  Zhytomyr Oblast |
| Admin. center | Berdychiv |
| Subdivisions | 10 hromadas |
| Area | |
• Total | 3,018.5 km2 (1,165.4 sq mi) |
| Population (2022)[1] | |
• Total | 156,419 |
| • Density | 51.820/km2 (134.21/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+02:00 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+03:00 (EEST) |
| Area code | +380 |
Berdychiv Raion (Ukrainian: Бердичівський район) is a raion (district) of Zhytomyr Oblast, northern Ukraine. Its administrative centre is located at Berdychiv. The raion is located in the southern part of the oblast; the distance between Zhytomyr and Berdychiv is 43 kilometres (27 mi). Population: 156,419 (2022 estimate).[1]
On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Zhytomyr Oblast was reduced to four, and the area of Berdychiv Raion was significantly expanded. [2][3] Before the expansion, the area of the raion was 865.2 square kilometres (334.1 mi2); after the expansion, the area of the raion is 3,018.5 square kilometres (1,165.4 mi2). The January 2020 estimate of the raion population was 27,587 (2020 est.).[4]
Berdychiv district borders Zhytomyr district of Zhytomyr Oblast, Kyiv and Vinnytsia regions of Ukraine. The district is located on the Dnieper Upland, the highest point is 249 m above sea level.[5][6] The territory of the district belongs to the forest-steppe zone, covered with hornbeam-oak forests and meadow steppes. The Teteriv and Ros rivers flow through the district (Dnieper basin).[7]
Mineral resources of the district: kaolin, granite, brown coal.[8][9] The climate of the Berdychiv district is moderately continental, with humid summers and mild winters. The average annual temperature is approximately 10 °C, the average temperature in January is 4-5 °C, and in July it is about +20 °C. The annual amount of precipitation is 570 mm.[10][6]
Berdytsiv is a significant railway junction, through which the railway from Kozyatin-Zdolbuniv-Kovel passes. The European highway E583 to Zhytomyr and Vinnytsia passes through Berdytsiv.[11][12]
Notable landmarks
The natural reserve fund of the district consists of 9 regional-level reserves, Demchynsky and Raihorodsky parks of landscape art of local importance.[13]
Notable people
- 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)