Podilsk
Podilsk, until May 2016 Kotovsk.History
Birzula was first mentioned in Turkish documents in 1772 as one of settlements of the Dubossar raya.
In Birzula, Ukrainian-Italian-Brazilian physicist Gleb Wataghin was born in 1899.
The city is known as the place where Soviet military leader Grigori Kotovsky was buried in a mausoleum. In 1935, the city was named after him; formerly the settlement bore the name Birzula. The mausoleum was later destroyed during the Romanian occupation of Transnistria. The monument was dismantled in June 2017 to comply with decommunization laws.
The city has a major railway station and depot on the line Odessa—Zhmerinka.
The Lenin statue in Kotovsk was pushed off its pedestal and broken into several pieces on December 9, 2013.
On 21 May 2016, Verkhovna Rada adopted decision to rename Kotovsk to Podilsk and Kotovsk Raion to Podilsk Raion according to the law prohibiting names of Communist origin.Gallery
