Variazh ( uk, Варяж; pl, Waręż) is a former city (currently a
village) in
Chervonohrad Raion (
district) of
Lviv Oblast (
province) in western
Ukraine. Its population is 888 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. .
The village is located close to the border with
Poland, near the Polish village of
Uśmierz. It belongs to
Sokal urban hromada, one of the
hromada
A hromada ( uk, територіальна громада, lit=territorial community, translit=terytorialna hromada) is a basic unit of administrative division in Ukraine, similar to a municipality. It was established by the Government of Ukra ...
s of Ukraine.
The first written documents date the settlement back to in 1419 as Waręż.
In 1538, the settlement was granted the
Magdeburg rights.
[ Waręż had a significant population of Jews living in the city: in 1880, there were 880 Jews; in 1900, there were 964 Jews; in 1921, there were 520 Jews. During the Holocaust, Waręż's entire Jewish population was killed.
Until the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939, Waręż was a part of the Polish Lwów Voivodeship (Sokal County) and – since 1934 – seat of the Gmina Waręż, a ''rural'' administrative district of Poland (Waręż does not appear on lists of towns since at least 1931, and prior to this it only had market town status (miasteczko), which was considered a rural unit in an administrative sense).
During the war, the settlement became a part of the ]Hrubieszów County
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Hrubieszów County ( pl, powiat hrubieszowski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Lublin Voivodeship, eastern Poland, on the border with Ukraine. It was established on January 1, 1999, as a result of ...
, which after the war returned to the Lublin Voivodeship. During the 1951 Polish–Soviet territorial exchange
Events
January
* January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950).
* January 9 – The Government of the United K ...
, Waręż along with most of the pre-war Sokal County was transferred from the People's Republic of Poland
The Polish People's Republic ( pl, Polska Rzeczpospolita Ludowa, PRL) was a country in Central Europe that existed from 1947 to 1989 as the predecessor of the modern Republic of Poland. With a population of approximately 37.9 million nea ...
to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. There, the settlement was renamed to Novoukrainka ( uk, Новоукраїнка),[ a name which it kept until 1989 when it was reverted to its original—albeit Ukrainian variant of the name, "Variazh."
Until 18 July 2020, Variazh belonged to ]Sokal Raion
Sokal ( uk, Сокаль, romanized: ''Sokal'') is a city located on the Bug River in Chervonohrad Raion, Lviv Oblast of western Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Sokal urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. The population is approx ...
. 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. The area of Sokal Raion was merged into Chervonohrad Raion.
People from Variazh
* Yaroslav Mendus, Ukrainian politician
See also
* St. Mark's Church, Variazh
References
External links
* {{cite web, title=22 May: Belz, Uhniv, Variazh, Tartakiv, url=http://www.zabrama.com/2011/05/22.html, work=Zabrama, accessdate=20 February 2012, language=Ukrainian, format=Photogallery
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Populated places established in the 1410s
Lwów Voivodeship
Holocaust locations in Ukraine
Villages in Chervonohrad Raion