Kosiv Raion


Kosiv Raion, is a raion of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast of Ukraine. The city of Kosiv is the administrative center of the raion. Population:.

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, Kuty, Vyzhnii Bereziv.

Famous people

Famous people that were born, lived or worked in Kosiv district:
Marko Cheremshyna was a Ukrainian writer of Hutsul background.
Dmytro Pavlychko is a Ukrainian poet, translator, scriptwriter, culturologist, political and public figure, and dissident.