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List of sovereign states>Country| subdivision_name = {{UKR}}Oblasts of Ukraine>Oblast| subdivision_name1 = Odesa OblastRaions of Ukraine>Raion| subdivision_name2 = Podilsk Raion| subdivision_type3 = Hromada| subdivision_name3 = Podilsk urban hromada| area_total_km2 = 25.44| elevation_m = 248| population_footnotes = | population_total = 39220| population_as_of = 2022| population_density_km2 = autoKöppen climate classification>ClimateHumid continental climate#Mild/cool summer subtype>Dfb| timezone = | utc_offset = +2| timezone_DST = | utc_offset_DST = | postal_code_type = Postal code| postal_code = 66300—314| area_code = +380-4862weblink}}}}Podilsk (, {{IPA-uk|poˈd⁽ʲ⁾ilʲsʲk|pron}}; or ), until May 2016 Kotovsk (, ) is a city in Odesa Oblast, southern Ukraine. Administratively, Podilsk serves as the administrative center of Podilsk Raion, one of seven districts of Odesa Oblast. It also hosts the administration of Podilsk urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.WEB, Подольская городская громада,weblink Портал об'єднаних громад України, ru, It had a population of {{Ua-pop-est2022|39,220|.}} In 2001, it had a population of 40,718. It is the largest city in the northern part of Odesa Oblast.

History

Birzula was first mentioned in Ottoman documents in 1772 as one of the settlements of the Dubossar raya. The Russian-Italian physicist Gleb Wataghin was born in Birzula in 1899.(:uk:Ватагін Гліб Васильович){{Circular reference|date=June 2020}}The city is known as the place where Soviet military leader Grigori Kotovsky was buried in a mausoleum. In 1935, the city was renamed Kotovsk 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.NEWS, 11 June 2017, In the Odesa region, a monument to the participant of the "red terror" Kotovsky was dismantled, ru, UNIAN,weblink A Vladimir Lenin statue in Kotovsk was pushed off its pedestal and broken into several pieces on December 9, 2013.WEB,weblink Лавина пішла: у Одеській області вночі зруйнували Леніна, WEB,weblink Ukraine protests: Riot police storm offices of opposition party in, Independent.co.uk, 10 December 2013, WEB, Police: One more Lenin statue broken in Odesa region,weblink Kyiv Post, 2014-01-04, 2015-04-22, On 21 May, 2016, Verkhovna Rada adopted decision to rename Kotovsk to Podilsk and Kotovsk Raion to Podilsk Raion according to the laws prohibiting names of Communist origin.NEWS,weblink Про перейменування деяких населених пунктів, 21 May 2016, Holos Ukrainy, uk, 1 June 2016, Until 18 July 2020, Podilsk was incorporated as a city 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.NEWS, Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ.,weblink 2020-10-03, 2020-07-18, Голос України, uk, WEB, Нові райони: карти + склад,weblink Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України, Ukrainian,

Transportation

The city has a major railway station and depot on the Odesa—Zhmerynka line (a stretch of the Rozdilna—Poberezhzhia line).

Notable people

• Nikolai Morshen, Russian second-wave émigré poet and translator of American poetry into Russian
• Volodymyr Muntyan, Soviet and Ukrainian midfielder of the 1960s and 1970s
• Viktor Seliverstov, Russian political figure and deputy of the 7th and 8th State Dumas
• Gleb Wataghin, famous Ukrainian-Italian theoretical and experimental physicist
• Valentyn Zghursky, head of the executive committee of the Kyiv City Council

Gallery

File:Podilsk 21.jpg|Podilla Hotel in PodilskFile:Podilsk 16.jpg|PharmacyFile:Shevchenko Park in Podilsk.jpg|City park

See also

• List of cities in Ukraine

References

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