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Volodymyrets Володимирець Włodzimierzec
Rural settlement
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Coordinates: 51°25′15″N 26°08′42″E / 51.42083°N 26.14500°E / 51.42083; 26.14500
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Rivne Oblast
Raion	Varash Raion
Founded	1183
Town status	1957
Government
• Mayor	Oleksandr Osmolovych
Area
• Total	60.13 km² (23.22 sq mi)
Elevation ^[1]	176 m (577 ft)
Population (2001)
• Total	8,699
• Density	140/km² (370/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code	34300
Area code	+380 3634
Website	http://volodselrada.gov.ua/

Volodymyrets (Ukrainian: Володимирець, Russian: Влaдимирец, Polish: Włodzimierzec) is a rural settlement in Rivne Oblast (province) in western Ukraine. The town was also formerly he administrative center of Volodymyrets Raion (district), housing the district's local administration buildings until the raion's abolition, but is now administered within Varash Raion. Its population is 8,699 as of the 2001 Ukrainian Census.^[2] Current population: 9,315 (2022 estimate).^[3]

The settlement is located at the confluence of the Styr and Horyn rivers.^[4]

History

Volodymyrets was first founded in ancient Kievan Rus' times,^[4] and it acquired the status of an urban-type settlement in 1957.^[2] On 26 January 2024, a new law entered into force which abolished this status, and Volodymyrets became a rural settlement.^[5]

Notable people

Max Kidruk — Ukrainian writer.
Lesia Tsurenko — Ukrainian tennis player.

References

^ "Volodymyrets (Rivne Oblast, Volodymyrets Raion)". weather.in.ua. Retrieved 9 February 2012.
^ ^a ^b "Volodymyrets, Rivne Oblast, Volodymyrets Raion". Regions of Ukraine and their Structure (in Ukrainian). Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Retrieved 9 February 2012.^{[permanent dead link‍]}
^ Чисельність наявного населення України на 1 січня 2022 [Number of Present Population of Ukraine, as of January 1, 2022] (PDF) (in Ukrainian and English). Kyiv: State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 July 2022.
^ ^a ^b "History of the formation of Volodymyrets". 34400.net (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 9 February 2012.
^ "Что изменится в Украине с 1 января". glavnoe.in.ua (in Russian). 1 January 2024.

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