Sambir Raion
Sambir Raion (Ukrainian: Самбірський район) is a raion in Lviv Oblast in western Ukraine. Its administrative center is Sambir. Population: 224,126 (2021 est.)[1]. It was established in 1965. It includes: Sambir, Rudkivska, Dobromilska, Novokalynivska, Starosambirska, Turkivska, Khyrivska urban, Borynska settlement, Biskovytska, Ralivska, Strilkivska rural hromadas.
Sambir Raion
Самбірський район | |
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| Coordinates: 49°33′4″N 23°19′20″E | |
| Country |  Ukraine |
| Region | Lviv Oblast |
| Established | 8 January 1965 |
| Admin. center | Sambir |
| Subdivisions | 11 hromadas |
| Area | |
| • Total | 934 km2 (361 sq mi) |
| Population (2021)[1] | |
| • Total | 224,126 |
| • Density | 240/km2 (620/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+02:00 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+03:00 (EEST) |
| Postal index | 81420—81485 |
| Area code | 380-3236 |
On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Lviv Oblast was reduced to seven, and the area of Sambir Raion was significantly expanded. Two abolished raions, Turka and Staryi Sambir Raions, as well as the city of Sambir, which was previously incorporated as a city of oblast significance and did not belong to the raion, were merged into Sambir Raion.[2][3] The January 2020 estimate of the raion population was 67,063 (2020 est.)[4]
Settlements in Sambir Raion
Sambir Raion 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.[5]
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
Villages:
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.[6]
Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny
Yuriy Frants Kulchytsky
References
- "Чисельність наявного населення України (Actual population of Ukraine)" (PDF) (in Ukrainian). State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Retrieved 11 July 2021.
- "Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ". Голос України (in Ukrainian). 2020-07-18. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
- "Нові райони: карти + склад" (in Ukrainian). Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України.
- "Чисельність наявного населення України (Actual population of Ukraine)" (PDF) (in Ukrainian). State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
- 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.
