Podilsk Raion


Podilsk Raion, known until 2015 as Kotovsk Raion, is a raion in Odesa Oblast of Ukraine. Its administrative center is the city of Podilsk. Population:
On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Odesa Oblast was reduced to seven, and the area of Podilsk Raion was significantly expanded. Six abolished raions, Ananiv, Balta, Kodyma, Liubashivka, Okny, and Savran Raions, as well as Balta Municipality and the city of Podilsk, which was previously incorporated as a City of regional [significance (Ukraine)|city of oblast significance] and did not belong to the raion, were merged into Podilsk Raion. The January 2020 estimate of the raion population was
In the 2001 census, 14.8 percent of its population declared to be native Moldovan-speakers.
On 21 May 2016, the Verkhovna Rada adopted a decision to rename Kotovsk Raion to Podilsk Raion and Kotovsk to Podilsk according to the law prohibiting names of Communist origin.

Administrative division

Current

After the reform in July 2020, the raion consisted of 12 hromadas:

Before 2020

Before the 2020 reform, the raion consisted of one hromada, Kuialnyk rural hromada with the administration in Kuialnyk.