Liubashivka Raion

Liubashivskyi Raion Любашівський район
Raion
Flag Coat of arms
Coordinates: 47°47′40″N 30°12′18″E
Country	Ukraine
Region	Odessa Oblast
Established	1926/1957
Disestablished	18 July 2020
Admin. center	Liubashivka
Subdivisions	List    — city councils    — settlement councils  — rural councils Number of localities:    — cities    — urban-type settlements 54 — villages    — rural settlements
Government
• Governor	Serhiy Vovk
Area
• Total	11 km2 (4 sq mi)
Population  (2020)
• Total	29,253
• Density	2,700/km2 (6,900/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+02:00 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+03:00 (EEST)
Postal index	66500
Area code	380-04864

Saint John the Evangelist church in Pokrovka village in Liubashivskyi Raion

Liubashivka Raion (Liubashivskyi Raion) was a district in Odessa Oblast, Ukraine. Its administrative center was the urban-type settlement of Liubashivka. In 2001 its population was 33,000. The raion was abolished and its territory was merged into Podilsk Raion on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Odessa Oblast to seven. The last estimate of the raion population was 29,253 (2020 est.)

The district was primarily Ukrainophone.

Important rivers within Liubashivskyi Raion included the Kodyma and Tyligul Rivers.

The railway connecting Odessa and Kropyvnytskyi crossed the Raion. It had two railway stations (in Zaplazy and Liubashivka).

The district also lied on 2 international highways — route Saint Petersburg – Kyiv – Odessa M05 E95; and route Chişinău (Moldova) - Kropyvnytskyi M13 E577.

Urban-type settlements

• Liubashivka
• Zelenohirske

Natives

Pavlo Ulitskiy

• Kostyantyn Voloshchuk (1916 — 1945) — Hero of the World War II from Liubashivka.
• Vasil Savenko — opera singer.
• Pavlo Ulitsky (1923 — 1996) — Hero of the World War II.
• Rostyslav Paletsky (1932 — 1978) — artist.
• Аlbin Havdzinsky — artist.