Berdychiv Raion

Berdychiv Raion (Бердичівський район) is a raion (district) of Zhytomyr Oblast, northern Ukraine. Its administrative centre is located at Berdychiv. The raion is located in the southern part of the oblast; the distance between Zhytomyr and Berdychiv is 43 km. Population:

On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Zhytomyr Oblast was reduced to four, and the area of Berdychiv Raion was significantly expanded. Before the expansion, the area of the raion was 865.2 km2; after the expansion, the area of the raion is 3018.5 km2. The January 2020 estimate of the raion population was

Natural tourist objects
Demchynskyi and Rayhorodskiy park-memorials landscape of gardening art of local value, hydro-recreation resource of the river Hnylopiat.

The natives of the district

 * figure of the Polish national movement Edmund Różycki (vil. Ahativka)
 * doctor of Economic I.Oliynyk
 * opera singer G.Shapovalov (vil. Zhurbyntsi)
 * rector of Zhytomyr pedagogical institute P. Gornostai (vil. Ivankivtsi)
 * doctor of Biological S. Markevych (vil. Katerynivka)
 * doctor of Philological P.Bilous
 * Honored trainer of the USSR V.Lonskyi (vil. Obukhivka)
 * poet M. Pasichnyk (vil. Polovetske)
 * bibliographer and literary critic M.Gumenyuk (vil. Reia)
 * the Doctor of engineering, general I. Oliynyk (vil. Skraglivka)
 * doctor of Arts and Philosophy D. Stepovyk, (vil. Slobodshche)
 * doctor of biological Ye. Kondratyuk (vil. Old Solotvyn)
 * classic of English literature Joseph Conrad
 * author, memorialist Stefan Borovskyi (s. Terekhove)
 * corresponding member of Academy of Science of the USSR
 * a physicist, Hero of the Soviet Union V. Mostovyi (s. Khazhyn)