Zabolotiv ( ua, Заболотів, pl, Zabłotów, yi, זאַבלאטאוו ''Zablotov'') 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 ...

Kolomyia Raion Kolomyia Raion ( uk, Коломи́йський райо́н, translit=Kołomyjśkyj rajon) is a raion (district) of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (region). The administrative center of the raion is the city of Kolomyia. Population: . On 18 July 2020, a ...

of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast 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 ...

. It hosts the administration of Zabolotiv urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population: . In 2001, the population was 4,129.

History

Starting from 1790, a growing Jewish community became an important part of local life. At the beginning of the 20th century, antisemitic unrest culminated in the first

pogrom A pogrom () is a violent riot incited with the aim of massacring or expelling an ethnic or religious group, particularly Jews. The term entered the English language from Russian to describe 19th- and 20th-century attacks on Jews in the Russia ...

in Zabolotiv in 1903. Later, German Nazis exterminated one part of the Jewish population while others managed to flee to the

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and

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

. Until 18 July 2020, Zabolotiv belonged to

Sniatyn Raion Sniatyn Raion ( uk, Сня́тинський райо́н, translit=Sniatynśkyj rajon) was a raion (district) of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (province) of Ukraine. The city of Sniatyn was the administrative center of the raion. The raion was abolishe ...

. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast to six. The area of Sniatyn Raion was merged into Kolomyia Raion.

Notable people

* Otto M. Nikodym (1887–1974) (Otton Martin Nikodým), Polish mathematician * Manes Sperber (1905–1984), Austrian-French novelist, essayist and psychologist, who wrote under the pseudonyms Jan Heger and N.A. Menlos * Svitlana Onyshchuk (born 1984), Ukrainian government official

References

External links

A City and the Dead; Zablotow Alive and Destroyed Memorial Book of Zabolotov (Zablotow) (Ukraine)
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