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for other names) is a small

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located in

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of western

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, north of the border with

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. It hosts the administration of

Storozhynets urban hromada Storozhynets (, ; ; see #Other names, below for other names) is a small List of cities in Ukraine, city located in Chernivtsi Raion, Chernivtsi Oblast of western Ukraine, north of the border with Romania. It hosts the administration of Storozh ...

, one of the

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s of Ukraine. It is located approximately southwest of the oblast capital,

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. Population: Storozhynets is located in the historic region of

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, which has been governed by

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(before 1774), the

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(1774–1918), Romania (1918–1940 and 1941–1944), the

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(1940–1941 and 1944–1991) and Ukraine (since 1991).

Other names

Other names for the city include: *''Storozynetz'' (German) *''Storojineț'' (Romanian) *''Strozhnitz'' (, Yiddish) *''Storožynec'' (Slovak) *''Storożyniec'' (Polish) *''Storozhinets'' (Сторожинец, Russian) *Flondoreni (Romanian) - proposed name never officially changed, after the Flondor family, who were some of the most influential nobles, benefactors, for the Romanians in Bukovina

History

Storozhynets was a part of the Principality of

and was first mentioned in 1448. The first inhabitants were a settlement of loggers. In 1774, the region was annexed by

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, as the

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. It was marked with great changes as Austrians and Germans arrived en masse. There were schools with German, Romanian, and Ukrainian as their languages of instruction. Since the second half of the 19th century, a rapid population growth began with the arrival of Jews to the city, as well as Hungarian and Romanian businessmen, legal and banking officials, most of whom were Jews. In 1854 Storozhynets received the status of city. By the end of the 19th century and early 20th century, the city was populated mainly by Jews. In 1903 in Storozhynets opened a private school. On May 21, 1904, the area around Storozhynets became a county. Trade, industry, agriculture, science, education, and culture developed at a rapid pace. On 15/28 November 1918, soon after the end

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, the

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was declared by the

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, and the town became part of the

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. On 18 December 1918,

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was created, with Storojineț as its capital. In 1921, Romanian became the official language, and the Ukrainian language was not used any more in the administration. On 28 June 1940, Northern Bukovina was occupied by Soviet troops. After the start of the war against the Soviet Union, in June 1941, Northern Bucovina was reintegrated into the Kingdom of Romania. Almost all the Jews were deported to

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by the Romanian authorities in 1941, and many of them died there. In 1944, the area passed again under Soviet control. Until 18 July 2020, Storozhynets served as an administrative center of

Storozhynets Raion Storozhynets Raion (, ) was a raion (administrative district) in Chernivtsi Oblast, (province), in the historical region of Bukovina, in western part of Ukraine. The administrative center of the raion was the city of Storozhynets. It bordered wi ...

. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Chernivtsi Oblast to three. The area of Storozhynets Raion was merged into

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Demographics

1930 Romanian census

In 2001, 81% of the inhabitants spoke Ukrainian as their native language, while 11.45% spoke Romanian, and 6.56% spoke Russian. In 2001, the population of 14,523 was 74.31% ethnically Ukrainian, 17.23% Romanian, 4.91% Russian, 2.2% Polish and 0.49% Moldovan. In 1989, there were 14,033 inhabitants, mostly ethnic Ukrainians, but also 3,214 Romanians (22.90%) and 129 Moldovans (0.92%).Ion Popescu and Constantin Ungureanu, ''Romanii din Ucraina - intre trecut si viitor'', vol. 1 (''Romanii din Regiunea Cernauti''), Cernauti, 2005, p. 211.

Notable people

Iancu Flondor Iancu Flondor (3 August 1865 – 19 October 1924) was a Romanian politician who advocated Bukovina's Union of Bukovina with Romania, union with the Kingdom of Romania. He was born in the town of Storozhynets () in Northern Bukovina (now in Ukrai ...

(1865–1924), Romanian politician who advocated

's union with the

. * George Grigorovici (1871–1950), Romanian politician * Radu Paladi (1927–2013), Romanian composer, pianist, and conductor. *

Viorica Viscopoleanu Viorica Viscopoleanu (née Belmega, born 8 August 1939) is a retired Romanian long jump The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a takeoff ...

(born 1939), Romanian long jumper athlete *Rabbi Shulem Gershon Ginsburgh the last Rabbi of Strozhnitz, he was the son in law of Rabbi Yisroel Yaakov of Chust. *Grand Rabbi Yisochor Ber Rosenbaum of Strozhnitz, author of ''Divrei Yisochor'' (d. 1980), son of Rabbi Issomor Rosenbaum of Nadvorna, son-in-law of Rabbi Yisachar Bertchi Leifer of Nadvorna-Satmar. *Rabbi Yitschok Yaakov Dovid Hager of Strozhnits, son of ''Imrei Boruch'' of Vizhnitz. *

Marian Hadenko Marian Illich Hadenko (15 September 19553 December 2021) was a Ukrainian composer, singer and television presenter. He was a recipient of the Merited Artist of Ukraine (1997) and the People's Artist of Ukraine (1999). Biography He was born on ...

, Ukrainian composer, singer and television presenter * Valeriy Tsybukh, Ukrainian politician and diplomat.

Gallery

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References

External links

History of the Jews in Bukovina

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: Geschichte der Juden in der Bukowina)
Storozhynets Jews Memorial Web Page
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