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Podilsk Подільськ | |
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 Podilsk railway station | |
 Flag  Coat of arms | |
  Podilsk  Podilsk | |
| Coordinates:47°44′31″N29°32′06″E / 47.74194°N 29.53500°E /47.74194; 29.53500 | |
| Country |  Ukraine |
| Oblast | Odesa Oblast |
| Raion | Podilsk Raion |
| Hromada | Podilsk urban hromada |
| Area | |
• Total | 25.44 km2 (9.82 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 248 m (814 ft) |
| Population (2022) | |
• Total | 39,220 |
| • Density | 1,542/km2 (3,993/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+2 |
| Postal code | 66300—314 |
| Area code | +380-4862 |
| Climate | Dfb |
| Website | podilska-gromada |
Podilsk (Ukrainian:Подільськ,pronounced[poˈd⁽ʲ⁾ilʲsʲk];Romanian:Bârzula orBârzu), until May 2016Kotovsk (Ukrainian:Котовськ;Russian:Котовск) is a city inOdesa Oblast, southernUkraine. Administratively, Podilsk serves as the administrative center ofPodilsk Raion, one of seven districts of Odesa Oblast. It also hosts the administration ofPodilsk urban hromada, one of thehromadas of Ukraine.[1]
It had a population of39,220 (2022 estimate).[2] In 2001, it had a population of 40,718. It is the largest city in the northern part of Odesa Oblast.
Birzula was first mentioned inOttoman documents in 1772 as one of the settlements of the Dubossarraya. A physicistGleb Wataghin was born in Birzula in 1899.[3]
The city is known as the place where Soviet military leaderGrigori Kotovsky was buried in amausoleum. In 1935, the city was renamedKotovsk after him; formerly the settlement bore the name Birzula. The mausoleum was later destroyed during theRomanian occupation of Transnistria. The monument was (again) dismantled in June 2017 to comply withdecommunization laws.[4]
AVladimir Lenin statue in Kotovsk was pushed off its pedestal andbroken into several pieces on 9 December 2013.[5][6][7] On 21 May 2016,Verkhovna Rada adopted decision to rename Kotovsk to Podilsk and Kotovsk Raion toPodilsk Raion according to thelaws prohibiting names of Communist origin.[8]
Until 18 July 2020, Podilsk was incorporated as acity of oblast significance and served as the administrative center of Podilsk Raion though it did not belong to the raion. In July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Odesa Oblast to seven, the city of Podilsk was merged into Podilsk Raion.[9][10]
According to the2001 Ukrainian census, Podilsk had a population of 40,664 inhabitants. EthnicUkrainians account for over 80% of the population, 10% refer to themselves asRussians, and 5% areMoldovans. The exact distribution of the population by ethnicity was:[11]
| percent | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ukrainians | 82.25% | |||
| Russians | 10.34% | |||
| Moldovans | 5.12% | |||
| Belarusians | 0.46% | |||
| Bulgarians | 0.20% | |||
| Armenians | 0.15% | |||
| Ashkenazi Jews | 0.14% | |||
| Poles | 0.08% | |||
| Gagauz | 0.06% | |||
Native language composition according to the2001 Ukrainian census:[12]
| percent | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ukrainian | 70.3% | |||
| Russian | 26.5% | |||
| "Moldovan" (Romanian) | 2.3% | |||
| Romani | 0.3% | |||
| Belarusian | 0.1% | |||
| others | 0.3% | |||
The city has a major railway station and depot on theOdesa—Zhmerynka line (a stretch of theRozdilna—Poberezhzhia line).
