Popilnia Raion

Popilnia Raion (Попільнянський район) was a raion (district) of Zhytomyr Oblast, northern Ukraine. Its administrative centre was located at Popilnia. The raion covered an area of 1037 km2. The raion was abolished on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Zhytomyr Oblast to four. The area of Popilnia Raion was merged into Zhytomyr Raion. The last estimate of the raion population was

Notable People

 * Ivan Samoilovych (?—1690) — a native of Khodorkiv, hetman of the Zaporozhian Army, political and military figure.
 * Yosyp Viacheslavovych Yurkevych (1855—1910) — zemstvo doctor, owner of an estate in Kryvyi Rih. He built a school and the first power station in the village.
 * Maksym Rylskyi (1895—1964) — poet, scientist and public figure, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences and the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, twice winner of the USSR State Prize and the Lenin Prize. He spent his childhood and youth in the village of Romanivka.
 * Vitruk Andrii Nikiforovych (1902—1946) — attack pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union. He was born in the village of Andrushky.
 * Yevchenko Kasian (Ukrainian: Євченко Касян Дмитрович, 1925—2009) — Ukrainian musician, master of folk instruments, director of the ensembles "Huk", "Huchok" and "Huchenia", soloist, former member of the Hryhorii Veriovka National Honoured Folk Choir of Ukraine.