Podilsk Raion (Ukrainian: Подільський район; Romanian: Raionul Bârzula), known until 2015 as Kotovsk Raion (Ukrainian: Котовський район), is a raion (district) in Odesa Oblast of Ukraine.

[1] On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Odesa Oblast was reduced to seven, and the area of Podilsk Raion was significantly expanded.

[2][3] The January 2020 estimate of the raion population was 25,524 (2020 est.).

[4] In the 2001 census, 14.8 percent of its population declared to be native Moldovan-speakers.

[5] 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.