Poliske (, ) is a
village
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...
in
Korosten Raion
Korosten Raion ( uk, Коростенський район) is a raion (district) of Zhytomyr Oblast, northern Ukraine. Its administrative centre is Korosten. The raion covers an area of . It makes Korosten raion the largest by area in Ukraine. P ...
in
Zhytomyr Oblast
Zhytomyr Oblast ( uk, Жито́мирська о́бласть, translit=Zhytomyrska oblast), also referred to as Zhytomyrshchyna ( uk, Жито́мирщина}) is an oblast (province) of northern Ukraine. The administrative center of the obla ...
. It was known as Mohylne (; ) before 1960, and was first mentioned in 1789. According to the
2001 Ukrainian census
The Ukrainian Census of 2001 is to date the only census of the population of independent Ukraine. It was conducted by the State Statistics Committee of Ukraine on 5 December 2001, twelve years after the last Soviet Union census in 1989. , its population was 884. It was the seat of a village council until 2016, when the village council was abolished and it came under the jurisdiction of the Ushomyr village council.
Geography
Poliske is located on the left bank of the
Uzh River
The Uzh ( uk, Уж; translit. ''Uzh''; sk, Uh; hu, Ung, pl, Uż) is a river in Ukraine and Slovakia. Its name comes from the ancient west Slavic dialect word ''už'', meaning "Snake", (lat. "Serpentes").
The Uzh is a tributary of the Labor ...
, southwest of Korosten. The Korosten–Zhytomyr highway passes through the village.
History
Mogilno was first mentioned in 1789.
It was part of the Iskorostskaya
volost
Volost ( rus, во́лость, p=ˈvoləsʲtʲ; ) was a traditional administrative subdivision in Eastern Europe.
In earlier East Slavic history, ''volost'' was a name for the territory ruled by the knyaz, a principality; either as an absolute ...
of
Ovruchsky Uyezd Ovruchsky Uyezd (''Овручский уезд'') was one of the subdivisions of the Volhynian Governorate of the Russian Empire. It was situated in the northeastern part of the governorate. Its administrative centre was Ovruch.
Demographics
At the ...
,
Volhynian Governorate
Volhynian Governorate or Volyn Governorate (russian: Волы́нская губе́рния, translit=Volynskaja gubernija, uk, Волинська губернія, translit=Volynska huberniia) was an administrative-territorial unit initially ...
from 1795. In 1921 it became part of Korostensky Uyezd when Ovruchsky Uyezd was split. It became part of Korostensky Okrug on 7 March 1923, Volynsky Okrug on 13 June 1930, and Korosten Raion on 28 February 1940. It was renamed Poliske on 8 June 1960. From 1923 it was the administrative center of the Mogilnyanskaya village council, which became the Poliskaya village council when the village was renamed in 1960.
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By 1973, the village included a secondary school and a library. It was part of the ''Progres'' collective farm.
Notable residents
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Filipp Zhmachenko
Filipp Feodosyevich Zhmachenko (russian: Филипп Феодосьевич Жмаченко; – 19 June 1966) was a Soviet Army colonel general and Hero of the Soviet Union.
Biography
Zhmachenko was born on 26 November 1895 to a Ukrainian ...
, Soviet general, born in 1895 in Mogilno
References
Villages in Korosten Raion