Sambir Raion
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.
Sambir Raion Самбірський район | |
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| Coordinates: 49°33′4″N 23°19′20″E | |
| Country |  |
| Region | Lviv Oblast |
| Established | 8 January 1965 |
| Admin. center | Sambir |
| Subdivisions | List
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| Area | |
| • Total | 934 km2 (361 sq mi) |
| Population (2016) | |
| • Total | 68,391 |
| • Density | 73/km2 (190/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+02:00 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+03:00 (EEST) |
| Postal index | 81420—81485 |
| Area code | 380-3236 |
List of settlements in the Sambir district
The Sambir district consists of 2 city communities, 1 settlement community, 7 rural communities and 9 village councils, which unite 110 settlements and are subordinate to the Sambir district council. The administrative center is the city of Sambir, which is a city of regional importance and is not part of the district.[2].
United territorial communities of Sambir district
- Babinska village community
- Biskovichi rural community
- Vilshanitsky village community
- Wole-Baranetskaya rural community
- Voyutychi village community
- Dubljanska settlement community
- Lukivska village community
- Novokalinivska city community
- Rudkovska city community
- Chukvyan rural community
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.[3]
Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny
Yuriy Frants Kulchytsky
References
- "Чисельність наявного населення України (Actual population of Ukraine)" (PDF) (in Ukrainian). State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Retrieved 19 July 2016.
- Адміністративно-територіальний устрій Самбірського району на сайті Верховної Ради України
- Woloschuk, Peter T. (11 June 2006). "Omeljan Pritsak, scholar of Ukrainian, Turkic studies, 87". Obituary. The Ukrainian Weekly. Retrieved 14 October 2017.
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