Podilsk Raion
Podilsk Raion, known until 2015 as Kotovsk Raion, is a raion in Odessa Oblast of Ukraine. Its administrative center is the town of Podilsk which is incorporated separately as a city of oblast significance and does not belong to the raion. Population:
In the 2001 census 25.9 percent of its population declared to be Moldovan.
On 21 May 2016, Verkhovna Rada adopted decision to rename Kotovsk Raion to Podilsk Raion and Kotovsk to Podilsk according to the law prohibiting names of Communist origin.
