FEATURES OF THE ORGANIZATION OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE- TERRITORIAL ORGANIZATION OF THE EASTERN PODILS REGION

The article examines the historical and geographical aspects of the experience organization of the administrative-territorial system of the southeastern part of Podilsk Transnistria, which still does not have a synthetic expression of this problem, in order to identify the possibilities of its application to improve functioning in conditions of decentralization. In particular, attention is focused on the establishment of transformation  processes  of  the  administrative-territorial  system  at  the  sub- regional level of the national territorial structure, taking into account its historical and geographical features throughout  the  entire  time period, in unison  with  the formation of  Ukraine (from ancient times to the present). The research is based on the complex use  of  general  scientific  and  special scientific methods, which made it possible to cover all aspects of the scientific problem. On the basis of the basic  territorial-temporal dimension, the diversity of  the  administrative-territorial organization of the subregional level is characterized, which is the result of  the  influence  of  various factors (historical, geographical, military-political, ethno-cultural)  and  reflects  its  main forms  in  the conditions of statehood (public self-government, the Vichy of Kyiv Rus, Galicia -Volyn Principality, Hetmanship, UNR, Ukraine), occupation regimes (Golden Horde, Lithuanian Principality, Polish and Romanian Kingdoms, Commonwealth of Independent States, Ottoman, Russian and  German  (Third Reich) Empires, Soviet Union). The study of the realities of the transformation of the administrative- territorial system of the southeastern part of Podilskyi Transnistria over a period of more than  a thousand years allows us to holistically trace the peculiarities of the creation and functioning of local self-government at the sub-regional  meso level,  which  is  valuable  in view of  the decentralization of executive authorities and the state's strategic European integration course. The results of the research can be used in further historical-geographical studies of the administrative- territorial system of Transnistria and neighboring regions, in particular, to solve urgent problems of the territorial organization of the district-level administrative unit; for the preparation of lecture courses on general or thematic regional studies, primarily geographical and historical.