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Drohobych Oblast
Drohobych Oblast ( uk, Дрогобицька область, translit=Drohobytska oblast; December 4, 1939May 21, 1959) was an oblast in the Ukrainian SSR. It had a territory of 9.6 thousands of km³ and, as of 1956, population of 853,000. History Drohobych Oblast was one of six oblasts (the other five are Lviv Oblast, Rivne Oblast, Stanislav (Ivano-Frankivsk) Oblast, Tarnopil (Ternopil) Oblast, and Volyn Oblast) established on the territory of West Ukraine following the 1939 invasion of Poland. On November 27, 1939 eight powiats of Lwow voivodeship and two powiats of Stanislawow voivodeship were designated for the creation of Drohobych Oblast, establishment of which was confirmed on December 4, 1939. * Dobromyl * Drohobych * Lesko * Mostyska * Peremyshl * Rudky * Sambir * Zhydachiv * Stryi * Turka On January 17, 1940 the oblast was split into 30 raions and five municipalities: Bircha (village), Boryslav (city), Vysotsko-Vyzhnie (village), Dobromyl (city), Drohobyc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oblast
An oblast (; ; Cyrillic (in most languages, including Russian and Ukrainian): , Bulgarian: ) is a type of administrative division of Belarus, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Ukraine, as well as the Soviet Union and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Official terms in successor states of the Soviet Union differ, but some still use a cognate of the Russian term, e.g., ''vobłasć'' (''voblasts'', ''voblasts'', official orthography: , Taraškievica: , ) is used for regions of Belarus, ' (plural: ') for regions of Kazakhstan, and ''oblusu'' (') for regions of Kyrgyzstan. The term is often translated as "area", "zone", "province" or "region". The last translation may lead to confusion, because "raion" may be used for other kinds of administrative division, which may be translated as "region", "district" or "county" depending on the context. Unlike "province", translations as "area", "zone", and "region" may lead to confusion because they have very common meanings ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudky
Rudky ( uk, Ру́дки, pl, Rudki) is a city in Sambir Raion, Lviv Oblast in Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Rudky urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. The population was 4,942 at the 2001 Ukrainian census. Current population: . Geography Rudky is located along the Highway Ukraine () – Lviv – Sambir – Uzhhorod at a distance from the regional center Lviv, from the district center Sambir, and from Uzhhorod. This is placed on the main European watershed, above the river Vyshnya (right tributary of the river San). History The town is the resting place of the Polish poet Aleksander Fredro, who was buried in a local Roman Catholic church in 1876. Rudky is on the Vishnya river and is the home of the Vyshnia College of the Lviv National Agricultural University. Rudky Arboretum is on the southern edge of the town. Rudky, which for centuries belonged to the Kingdom of Poland, and was known as Rudki, was founded in the late 14th century, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Medyka
Medyka (; uk, Медика, Medyka) is a village in Przemyśl County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland, on the border with Ukraine. It is the seat of the municipality (gmina) called Gmina Medyka. It lies approximately east of Przemyśl and east of the regional capital Rzeszów. In 2006 the village had a population of approximately 2,800. History The village dates back to the Middle Ages. A castle existed there already in the 14th century. It was expanded in 1542 by Piotr Kmita Sobieński (1477-1553) Starosta of Przemyśl. In 1607 the Roman Catholic St Peter and Paul timber church was erected and in 1663 the settlement was granted Starostwo status. There was also a Greek Catholic Church. Medyka was occupied by Habsburg Austria after the Partitions of Poland in 1772 and remained within Galicia until the end of World War I. From 1809 the village became the property of the Pawlikowski family. They built a manor house on the ruins of the ancient castle and for ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Medenychi
Medenychi ( uk, Меденичі, pl, Medenice) is an urban-type settlement in Drohobych Raion (district) of Lviv Oblast (region) in Western Ukraine Western Ukraine or West Ukraine ( uk, Західна Україна, Zakhidna Ukraina or , ) is the territory of Ukraine linked to the former Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia, which was part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Austria .... It hosts the administration of Medenychi settlement hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population: . Local government is administered by Medenychi village council. History The territory was occupied by Germans in early July 1941. Once the territory was occupied by Germans, pogroms against the Jewish community were carried out by locals and continued till spring 1942. In August 1942, most of the Medenychi Jews were sent to the Bełżec extermination camp. According to the Soviet archives and testimonies gathered by Yahad-In Unum, the column of Jews was shot midway between Med ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Komarno, Ukraine
Komarno ( uk, Комарно, pl, Komarno, yi, קאָמאַרנע) is a city located in Lviv Raion (district) of Lviv Oblast (region) in western Ukraine. Local government is administered by Komarnivska city council. It hosts the administration of Komarno urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. The population is approximately . History The village of Komarno was first mentioned in 1427. In 1471, Komarno got the Magdeburg rights. In the center of town is an old Polish Kostel (Catholic Church), as well as an old wooden Ukrainian Orthodox church complete with ancient icons. The river Vereshytsia flows through the town. The Jewish Hasidic dynasty of Komarno originates from this town, and there was a sizable Jewish community in the town from the 16th century until World War II when they were murdered. Komarno, which until the Partitions of Poland belonged to Ruthenian Voivodeship, received its town charter (Magdeburg rights) in 1471 from King Kazimierz Jagiellonczyk. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zhuravno
Zhuravne ( uk, Журавне; pl, Żurawno; yi, זשיראוונע, ''Zhirovne'') is an urban-type settlement in Stryi Raion, Lviv Oblast of western Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Zhuravne settlement hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population: . History The town was first mentioned in 1435. In the 16th century, Zhuravne was granted city status. Prior to World War II the town was located in Poland. Zhuravne gained recognition in Polish history because of the battle which took place nearby between the king of Poland, John III Sobieski, and the Turkish and Tatar invaders, a battle that ended in a peace treaty. The town was also the birthplace of the renowned Polish poet and author Mikołaj Rej in 1505. The German forces occupied the territory in early July 1941. From the beginning of September to November 1942, the majority of Zhuravne's Jews were deported to the Belzec extermination camp. About 160 Jewish specialists were purposefully left and confined to a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dubliany
Dubliany ( uk, Дубляни; pl, Dublany) is a city in Lviv Raion, Lviv Oblast (region) of Ukraine and a suburb of Lviv ( away). It belongs to Lviv urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population: . Located in the northern side of Lviv, the city's main landmark is the Agrarian University which was established on 9 January 1856Dubliany MistUA. by Halych Economic Society during the Second Polish Republic when Dubliany as a village was par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boryslav
Boryslav ( uk, Борислав; pl, Borysław) is a city located on the Tysmenytsia (a tributary of the Dniester), in Drohobych Raion, Lviv Oblast (region) of western Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Boryslav urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Boryslav is a major center of petroleum industry. Population: History The area of the modern town of Boryslav has been inhabited at least since the Bronze Age. There are remnants of a pagan shrine from the 1st millennium BC located in the area, where approximately 270 petroglyphs are found, mostly depicting solar signs – symbols of a pre-Christian Solar deity. Between the 9th and 13th centuries, the site of the modern town housed a fortress named ''Tustan'', which was part of a belt of similar strongholds defending the Kievan Rus' from the west and south. After the dissolution of Kievan Rus', the town became a part of the Halych-Volhynian Principality. With the collapse of the latter, in the 14th century Borysla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turka, Lviv Oblast
Turka (, pl, Turka, Turka nad Stryjem (old), yi, טורקא) is a city located at the confluence of the Stryi River and the Yablunka River () in Sambir Raion of Lviv Oblast (region) of western Ukraine (in the Carpathian Mountains). It hosts the administration of Turka urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population: . Until 18 July 2020, Turka belonged to Turka Raion and was the administrative center. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Lviv Oblast to seven. Name The name Turka originates from Ukrainian word, (), meaning aurochs or urus ( la, Bos primigenius), the ancestor of domestic cattle — a type of huge wild cattle which inhabited in the surrounding forests (it survived in Europe until 1627). In another version the city's name derives from the Ukrainian name of the gate-towers, "Turia" (), "Turja" (), "Turnia" (), which stood at the entrance to an ancient set ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
