Berdychiv Raion

Subdivision of Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine

Raion in Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine

Berdychiv Raion Бердичівський район
Raion
Flag Coat of arms
49°56′4″N 28°36′42″E / 49.93444°N 28.61167°E / 49.93444; 28.61167
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	52/km² (130/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 sq mi); after the expansion, the area of the raion is 3,018.5 square kilometres (1,165.4 sq mi). The January 2020 estimate of the raion population was 27,587 (2020 est.).^[4]

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)

Berdychiv Raion in Zhytomyr Oblast (1966-2020)

References

^ ^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.
^ "Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ". Голос України (in Ukrainian). 2020-07-18. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
^ "Нові райони: карти + склад" (in Ukrainian). Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України.
^ 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.