Lavochne ( uk, Ла́вочне, pl, Ławoczne) is a village ( selo) in the

Stryi Raion Stryi Raion ( uk, Стрийський район) is a raion in Lviv Oblast in western Ukraine. Its administrative center is Stryi. Population: . On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Lviv Obl ...

, in the

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(

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) of

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(prior to 1959, it was situated in the

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. Histo ...

). It belongs to the Slavske settlement hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. The village has 1,198 inhabitants, and local government is through the Lavochnenska village council.

Geography

The village is located on the

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- Chop railway line. The

Mukachevo Mukachevo ( uk, Мукачево, ; hu, Munkács; see name section) is a city in the valley of the Latorica river in Zakarpattia Oblast (province), in Western Ukraine. Serving as the administrative center of Mukachevo Raion (district), the city ...

- Svalyava-Lavochne railway line was constructed in 1881, and altered in 1887 to

- Stryi-Chop. The Lavochne railway station building was opened in 1886.
Lavochne is situated away from the regional center of

, from the city of Skole, and from the

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Slavske.

History

The first written mention of the village refers to 1591, when it was a part of the Ruthenian voivodeship of the

Rzeczpospolita () is the official name of Poland and a traditional name for some of its predecessor states. It is a compound of "thing, matter" and "common", a calque of Latin ''rés pública'' ( "thing" + "public, common"), i.e. ''republic'', in Engli ...

. In the years 1772-1918, Lavochne was part of the

Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria The Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria,, ; pl, Królestwo Galicji i Lodomerii, ; uk, Королівство Галичини та Володимирії, Korolivstvo Halychyny ta Volodymyrii; la, Rēgnum Galiciae et Lodomeriae also known as ...

under Austrian rule. After the dissolution of

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, Lavochne became part of the Second Polish Republic, serving as the border railway station - first on the Polish-Chekhoslovakian border (until March 1939), and then on the Polish-Hungarian border. After the

Invasion of Poland The invasion of Poland (1 September – 6 October 1939) was a joint attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union which marked the beginning of World War II. The German invasion began on 1 September 1939, one week aft ...

, Lavochne found itself in Soviet territory. From 1941 to 1944, Lavochne was part of

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District of Galicia The District of Galicia (german: Distrikt Galizien, pl, Dystrykt Galicja, ua, Дистрикт Галичина) was a World War II administrative unit of the General Government created by Nazi Germany on 1 August 1941 after the start of O ...

. Lavochne was the last Ukrainian settlement liberated from Nazi occupation, on 8 October 1944. Since that time Lavochne is part of

Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...

(in

until 1959, since then in Lviv Oblast).
According to one telling, the village's name derives from wooden benches ( uk, лавки ''lavky'') stacked in order to cross the river. Until 18 July 2020, Lavochne belonged to the Skole Raion. That raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of an administrative reform in Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of the Lviv Oblast to seven. The territory of the Skole Raion was merged into the Stryi Raion.

Religious structures

The village used to contain an architectural monument (1415/1), the wooden church of St. Michael, dating to 1907. On July 10, 2012, the church was destroyed in a fire caused by a lightning strike.Замки та Храми України, Лавочне
In its place, another church, also wooden, has been built.

Mentions in literature

Lavochne is the hometown of the heroes o
Mirjam Pressler's
novel "Malka Mai".

References

External links

Населені пункти Сколівського району - Лавочне

village Lavochne

weather.in.ua

Literature

* ''Історія міст і сіл УРСР : Львівська область, Тершів.'' – К. : ГРУРЕ, 1968 р. Page 717 {{Authority control Villages in Stryi Raion