Bilotserkivskyi Raion

Infobox Ukrainian raion
name=Bilotserkivskyi Raion
Ukrainian_name=Білоцерківський район
Ukrainian_name=Білоцерківський район


coa=Coat of arms of Bilotserkivskyi Raion.png location_

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country=Ukraine
region=Kiev Oblast
date_created=1930
population=
area=1,276.8
density=42.9
phone_code=380-4463
postal_index=075
administrative_center=Bila Tserkva
cities=1
urban-type_settlements=1
villages=58
website= [http://www.kyiv-obl.gov.ua/viewradi.php3?m=2&p=43 kyiv-obl.gov.ua]
governor=Roman Ivanovych Pluhator

Bilotserkivskyi Raion ( _uk. Білоцерківський район) is a raion (district) in Kiev Oblast of Ukraine. Its administrative center is Bila Tserkva. The raions area totals 1,276.8 km².

Culture

Architecture

Various monuments of architecture located within the raion's territory include:
* Monument to Ivan Mazepa, 1991 in the village of Mazepyntsi.
* Church Zishestia Sviatoho Dukha, 1750 in the village of Shkarivka.
* Church Sviatoi Paraskevy, 1903 in the village of Oliinykova Sloboda.
* Church of the Wifes of Myronosyts, 1893 in the village of Sorokotiahy.
* Cathedral of the Saint Ioanna Khrestytelia in Bila Tserkva.
* Mykhailivska Church, 1891 in Bila Tserkva.
* Preobrazhenska Churchm, 1849 in the village of Sukholisy.
* Oleksandriia Park, 1793-1797 in Bila Tserkva. [For more images of the park "Alexandria", see [http://klymenko.data-tec.net/Other_World/Ukraine.Aleksandriya.htm klymenko.data-tec.net] ]
* Zymovyi ("Winter") Palace in Bila Tserkva.

Famous people

Famous people from the territory that is now known as the Bilotserkivskyi Raion include:

* Ivan Mazepa, from Bila Tserkva, was a Cossack Hetman of the Hetmanate in Left-bank Ukraine, in 1687–1708.
* Pavel Popovich, from Uzyn, is a Soviet cosmonaut of Ukrainian descent, arguably the first ethnic Ukrainian to fly in space.

ubdivisions

Bilotserkivskyi Raion consists of 1 city ("Uzyn"), 1 town ("Terezyne") and 58 villages. The settlements of Bilotserkivskyi Raion are:

ee also

* Subdivisions of Ukraine
* Kiev Oblast

External links

* [http://www.kyiv-obl.gov.ua/viewradi.php3?m=2&p=43 kyiv-obl.gov.ua] - Information about the Boryspilskyi Raion uk icon
* [http://gska2.rada.gov.ua:7777/pls/z7502/A004SIL?rdat1=11.07.2006&rf7571=15028 Verkhovna Rada website] - Administrative divisions of the Boryspilskyi Raion uk icon
* [http://heraldry.com.ua/index.php3?lang=U&context=info&id=2853 heraldry.com.ua] - Heraldy of the raion uk icon