Sambir Raion

Sambir Raion
Sambir Raion; Самбірський район
	Raion
; Flag	; Coat of arms
	Coordinates: 49°33′4″N 23°19′20″E / 49.55111°N 23.32222°ECoordinates: 49°33′4″N 23°19′20″E / 49.55111°N 23.32222°E
Country	Ukraine
Region	Lviv Oblast
Established	8 January 1965
Admin. center	Sambir
Subdivisions	List — city councils; — settlement councils; — rural councils; ; ; Number of localities:; — cities; — urban-type settlements; 107 — villages; — rural settlements;
Area
• Total	934 km2 (361 sq mi)
Population (2016)
• Total	68,391
• Density	73/km2 (190/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal index	81420—81485
Area code	380-3236

Sambir Raion (Ukrainian: Самбірський район) is a raion in Lviv Oblast in western Ukraine. Its administrative center is Sambir, which is incorporated separately as a city of oblast significance and does not belong to the raion. Population: 68,391 (2016 est.)^[1]. It was established in 1965.

People from Sambir Raion

Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny (1570-1622) — a Ukrainian political and civic leader, Hetman of Ukrainian Zaporozhian Cossacks
Marko Zhmaylo-Kulchytskyy — Registered Cossacks Hetman (1625), leader of the peasant-Cossack Zhmaylo Uprising in 1625.
Yuriy Frants Kulchytsky (1640-1694) — Ukrainian political and civic leader.
Omeljan Pritsak (1919-2006) — Ukrainian-American historian, first Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History at Harvard University and the founder and first director (1973–1989) of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.^[2]

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