Kotovsk (Ukrainian: Котовськ, Romanian: Birzula) is a city in Odessa Oblast, Ukraine, the administrative center of Kotovskyi Raion. Population is 40,718 (2001).
The city is known as the place where Soviet military leader Grigori Kotovsky died and was buried. In 1935, the city was named after him; formerly the settlement bore the name Birzula.
Ukraine (Ukrainian: Україна, transliterated: Ukrayina) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south. The city of Kiev (Kyiv) is both the capital and the largest city of Ukraine.
