Vinnytsia

Vinnytsia Oblast is located in the eastern part of Podillia. The capital of the region is Vinnytsia city.
Vinnytsia Oblast borders the Chernivtsi, Khmelnytskyi, Zhytomyr, Kyiv, Kirovohrad, Cherkasy, Odesa regions of Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova in the south, including part of the border with unrecognized Transnistria. Vinnytsia region is located 270 km from Kyiv and 425 km from Odesa Seaport. It has Vinnytsia International Airport and international roads M-12, and M-21.
Vinnytsia Oblast is administratively divided into 6 districts, 18 cities, 29 urban-type settlements, and 1457 villages.
The region has a multi-branch industrial complex, where the leading places are occupied by the food industry, engineering and metalworking. More than 400 industrial enterprises in 13 industries operate in the region. The main ones are the food industry, electric power industry, mechanical engineering and metalworking, chemical and petrochemical industries. Microbiology and medicine are developing.
Regional GDP was 4.9 billion USD (3.25% of Ukraine’s GDP), FDI stock was 922 million USD (main foreign investors are Barlinek, Agrana, Anfol, Dacsa, Ukrainian Kaolin Company), and export was 1.4 billion USD (2.8% of Ukraine’s export).
Industry specialization: health care (medical tourism), agriculture (AgriTech), transport and logistics, R&D.
Natural resources of the region: peat, kaolin, fluorspar, granite.
There are 17 universities and 6 technical schools in the region. The leading universities are Vinnytsia National Technical University, Mykola Pirogov National Medical University and Vasyl Stus Donetsk National University.
The unemployment rate in the region was 11.0% (average in Ukraine 9.9%) and the average salary was 412 USD (average in Ukraine 430 USD).