Wilschana

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Wilschana (disambiguation) .

Wilschana
Вільшана
	Wilschana
Basic data
Oblast :	Cherkasy Oblast
Rajon :	Horodyschtsche Raion
Height :	162 m
Area :	Information is missing
Residents :	3,167 (2014)
Postcodes :	19523
Area code :	+380 4734
Geographic location :	49 ° 13 '  N , 31 ° 13'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 12 '35 "  N , 31 ° 12' 32"  E
KOATUU :	7120355400
Administrative structure :	1 urban-type settlement
Address:	вул. Шевченка 190 19523 смт. Вільшана
Statistical information
Wilschana

Wilschana ( Ukrainian Вільшана ; Russian Ольшана Olschana ) is an urban-type in the Ukrainian oblast Cherkassy with about 3000 inhabitants (2014).

The settlement, first mentioned in 1598, forms its own settlement council within the Horodyschtsche Rajon on the territorial road T-24-08 and is 83 km southwest of the Cherkassy Oblast center and 25 km southwest of the Horodyschtsche Rajon center . In 1965 the town received urban-type settlement status. The Wilschanka , a 100 km long right tributary of the Dnieper, flows through Wilschana .

In August 1941, the German occupiers ordered a forced ghetto for the Jewish population. In October 100 male Jews were murdered in May 1942, the remaining Jews were in the ghetto of Zvenyhorodka deported.

Sons and daughters of the village

• Jan Stanisławski (1860–1907), painter

literature

• Olshana , in: Guy Miron (Ed.): The Yad Vashem encyclopedia of the ghettos during the Holocaust . Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2009 ISBN 978-965-308-345-5 , p. 545

Web links

Commons : Wilschana  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry on the place in the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine (Ukrainian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Demographics of Ukrainian cities on pop-stat.mashke.org, accessed on March 17, 2015

• Olszana, miasteczko przy ujściu ruczaju Maźniki do rzeczki Olszanki . In: Filip Sulimierski, Władysław Walewski (eds.): Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich . tape 7 : Netrebka – Perepiat . Walewskiego, Warsaw 1886, p. 496 (Polish, edu.pl ).
• Olszana, miasteczko, powiat zwinogródzki . In: Filip Sulimierski, Władysław Walewski (eds.): Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich . tape 15 , part 2: Januszpol – Wola Justowska . Walewskiego, Warsaw 1902, p. 408 (Polish, edu.pl ).