Smyha ( uk, Смига) is an
urban-type settlement
Urban-type settlementrussian: посёлок городско́го ти́па, translit=posyolok gorodskogo tipa, abbreviated: russian: п.г.т., translit=p.g.t.; ua, селище міського типу, translit=selyshche mis'koho typu, ab ...
in
Dubno Raion
Dubno Raion ( uk, Дубенський район) is a raion in Rivne Oblast in western Ukraine. Its administrative center is located in Dubno. Population:
On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions o ...
(
district
A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or counties, several municipalities, subdivisions o ...
) of
Rivne Oblast
Rivne Oblast ( uk, Рі́вненська о́бласть, translit=Rivnenska oblast), also referred to as Rivnenshchyna ( uk, Рі́вненщина) is an oblast (province) of Ukraine. Its administrative center is Rivne. The surface area of th ...
(
province
A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or sovereign state, state. The term derives from the ancient Roman ''Roman province, provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire ...
) in western
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 ...
. Its population is 3,015 as of 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. .
Current population:
The settlement was first founded in 1861 as the village of Kenneberg ( uk, Кеннеберг).
[ It was renamed to its current name "Smyha" in 1928, and it acquired the status of an urban-type settlement in 1980.][
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Images
File:Смт Смига Церква Св. Іова Почаївського, 1991 рік.jpg, Church, 1991
File:Смт Смига. Церква Св. Іова Почаївського,2013рік.jpg, Church, 2013
File:Знак при в'їзді в селище.jpg,
References
Urban-type settlements in Dubno Raion
Populated places established in 1861
1861 establishments in the Russian Empire
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