Kosiv Raion

Kosiv Raion Косівський район
Raion
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Coordinates:
Country	Ukraine
Region	Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast
Established	?
Admin. center	Kosiv
Subdivisions	List    — city councils    — settlement councils  — rural councils Number of localities:    — cities    — urban-type settlements 42 — villages    — rural settlements
Government
• Governor	Yaroslav Shynkaruk
Area
• Total	903 km2 (349 sq mi)
Population
• Total	88,387
• Density	98/km2 (250/sq mi)
Time zone	EET (UTC+2)
• Summer (DST)	EEST (UTC+3)
Postal index	285250
Area code	+380
Website	Official website

Kosiv Raion (Ukrainian: Косівський район),(Romanian: Regiunea Cosău) is a raion (administrative district) of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast of Ukraine. The city of Kosiv is the administrative center of the raion. Population: 88,387 (2013 est.).

General information

The district is located in the Precarpathian region of Ukraine. The total area is 903 km² with 91,1 thousand inhabitants.

The climate is moderately continental.

The mountains go up to 1000 m above the sea level in the mountainous part of the raion. There are few big rivers among the mountains: Cheremosh — 80 km, Pistynka — 56 km, Rybnytsa — 54 km.

Archaeological finds show that the territory of the raion was inhabited from the Neolithic times. First written information about Kosiv is from 1424. Firstly, the town was called Rykiv, and only latter it was renamed to Kosiv. Other old settlements of the raion are Kobaky (15th century), Kuty (1448), Vyzhnii Bereziv (1412).

Famous people

Famous people that were born, lived or worked in Kosiv district:

Marko Cheremshyna (1874-1927) was a Ukrainian writer of Hutsul background.

Dmytro Pavlychko (1929) is a Ukrainian poet, translator, scriptwriter, culturologist, political and public figure, and dissident.

Sources

• Kosiv Raion Rada
• Kosiv Information
• Kosiv Art