Nyzhni Vorota ( uk, Ни́жні Воро́та; yi, ווערעצקי, Veretzky; hu, Alsóverecke, Volóci járás, by 1945 the village had the name uk, Ни́жні Вере́цьки ) is a village in

Volovets Raion Volovets Raion ( uk, Воловецький район) was a raion of Zakarpattia Oblast in western Ukraine. Its administrative center was the urban-type settlement of Volovets. The raion was abolished and its territory was merged into Mukachevo ...

, Zakarpattia Oblast of Western Ukraine.
The village has around 2,504 inhabitants. Local government is administered by Nyzhnovoritska village council, based in the village.

Geography

The village Nyzhni Vorota is located in the

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, on the southern slopes of the Dividing Range, within Volovets Pass.
Through the village passes the Highway M06 (Ukraine) (). It is a Ukrainian international highway ( M-highway) connecting Kyiv to the Hungarian border near

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, where it connects to the Hungarian Highway .
Distance from the regional center Uzhhorod is , from the district center

Volovets Volovets ( uk, Воловець, hu, Volóc, , russian: Воловец, sk, Volovec) is an urban-type settlement in Mukachevo Raion of Zakarpattia Oblast (region) in western Ukraine. Volovets was the administrative center of Volovets Raion (dis ...

, and from Lviv. Nyzhni Vorota, Ukraine (Alsóverecke (HU))

History

By 1880, the Jewish population was 545 (of a total population of 1,276). With the Hungarian occupation in March, 1939, Jews were persecuted and pushed out of their occupations. In 1941, dozens of Jews from Nyzhni Vorota were drafted into forced labor battalions and others were drafted for service on the Eastern front, where most died. In August, 1941, a number of Jewish families (totaling 80 persons) without Hungarian citizenship were expelled to Nazi occupied Ukrainian territory, to Kamenets-Podolski, and murdered there. The remaining Jews, about 500, were deported to

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mid-May 1944.

References

External links

weather.in.ua/Nyzhni Vorota (Zakarpattia (Transcarpathian) region)

Nyzhni Vorota: Ukraine

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