Podilsk

Podilsk
Подільськ
City of regional significance
Podilsk railway station

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Podilsk
Podilsk
Coordinates: 47°44′31″N 29°32′06″E / 47.74194°N 29.53500°E / 47.74194; 29.53500Coordinates: 47°44′31″N 29°32′06″E / 47.74194°N 29.53500°E / 47.74194; 29.53500
Country  Ukraine
Region  Odessa Oblast
Municipality Podilsk municipality
Area
 • Total 25.44 km2 (9.82 sq mi)
Elevation 248 m (814 ft)
Population (2015)
 • Total 40,640
 • Density 1,600/km2 (4,100/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+2
Postal code 66300—314
Area code(s) +380-4862
Climate Dfb
Website www.kotovsk-city.gov.ua

Podilsk (Ukrainian: Подільськ, Romanian: Bârzula), until May 2016 Kotovsk (Ukrainian: Котовськ, is a city in Odessa Oblast, Ukraine. Administratively, Podilsk is incorporated as a town of oblast significance. It also serves as the administrative center of Podilsk Raion, one of twenty-six districts of Odessa Oblast, though it is not a part of the district. Population: 40,640 (2015 est.)[1] In 2001, population was 40,718 (2001).

History

Birzula was first mentioned in Turkish documents in 1772 as one of settlements of the Dubossar raya.

From 1928 to 1929 it was the capital of the Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.

The city is known as the place where Soviet military leader Grigori Kotovsky was buried in a mausoleum. In 1935, the city was named 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.[2]

The city has a major railway station and depot on the line Odessa—Zhmerinka (stretch Razdelnaya—Poberezhye). The Lenin statue in Kotovsk was pushed off its pedestal and broken into several pieces on December 9, 2013.[3][4][5]

On 21 May 2016, Verkhovna Rada adopted decision to rename Kotovsk to Podilsk and Kotovsk Raion to Podilsk Raion according to the law prohibiting names of Communist origin.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Чисельність наявного населення України (Actual population of Ukraine)" (PDF) (in Ukrainian). State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
  2. ↑ "In the Odessa region, a monument to the participant of the "red terror" Kotovsky was dismantled" (in Russian). UNIAN. 11 June 2017.
  3. ↑ http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2013/12/9/7005547/
  4. ↑ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/riot-police-storm-offices-of-ukrainian-opposition-party-in-kiev-8994205.html
  5. ↑ "Police: One more Lenin statue broken in Odesa region". Kyiv Post. 2014-01-04. Retrieved 2015-04-22.
  6. ↑ "Про перейменування деяких населених пунктів" (in Ukrainian). Holos Ukrainy. 21 May 2016. Retrieved 1 June 2016.
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