Bila Tserkva

Bila Tserkva
Біла Церква
	Bila Tserkva
Basic data
Oblast :	Kiev Oblast
Rajon :	District-free city
Height :	no information
Area :	34.00 km²
Residents :	196,023 (2006)
Population density :	5,765 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes :	09100
Area code :	+380 4463
Geographic location :	49 ° 47 '  N , 30 ° 7'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 46 '48 "  N , 30 ° 7' 12"  E
KOATUU :	3220400000
Administrative structure :	1 city
Mayor :	Wassyl Savchuk
Address:	вул. Ярослава Мудрого 19 09 100 м. Біла Церква
Website :	http://www.bila-cerkva.osp-ua.info/
Statistical information
Bila Tserkva

Bila Tserkva ( Ukrainian Біла Церква , Russian Белая Церковь , Belaja Tserkov ) is a city in the Ukrainian Oblast of Kiev with about 200,000 inhabitants. It is located on the banks of the Ros around 80 kilometers southwest of Kiev .

history

The city, whose name means "White Church", was founded in 1032 by Grand Duke Yaroslav I of Kiev . The foundations of the early Russian Orthodox Church were exposed. From 1363 it belonged to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania , from 1569 to Poland-Lithuania . In 1651 a treaty between Poland and the Ukrainian Cossacks under Bohdan Khmelnyzkyj was signed here. In 1589 the town received Magdeburg city rights .

Catholic Church

After the third partition of Poland in 1795, the city became part of the Russian Empire . In the 19th century, Bila Tserkva was an important market town. During the times of the Soviet Union , Bila Tserkva became a large city and an important industrial location (mechanical engineering, construction industry).

During the German occupation of the city in World War II there on the orders of Field Marshal was Walter von Reichenau 90 Jewish children aged one to seven years by the Einsatzgruppe C shot.

Oleksandrija Dendrological Park

In Bila Zerkwa there is the building of the Great Synagogue , which was built in the mid-19th century and is now used as a technical college, as well as a 400-hectare and magnificent garden called Oleksandrija , which was laid out in 1788 on the orders of the wife of the Polish hetman Franciszek Ksawery Branicki . In addition, there is a classical Catholic church building in the city , which is currently used as a church and concert hall.

population

town hall

According to the 2001 census data, 87.4 percent of the urban population were ethnic Ukrainians and 10.3 percent were Russians . There are also small Jewish , Belarusian and Polish minorities.

More women than men live in Bila Tserkva (52.8 to 47.2 percent).

Development of the population (from 2004 on January 1st):

• 1970 - 103,000
• 2004 - 203,318
• 2005 - 204,794
• 2006 - 206,120
• 2014 - 211,240

Town twinning

• Noginsk , Russia, since 1996
• Xinzhou , People's Republic of China, since 1997
• Senaki , Georgia, since 1997
• Baryssau , Belarus, since 1998
• Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski , Poland, since 2001
• Kremenchuk , Ukraine, since 2001
• Púchov , Slovakia, since 2004
• Podolsk , Russia, since 2007
• Tarnów , Poland, since 2007
• Solomyanka Raion , Ukraine, since 2009
• Bijelo Polje , Montenegro, since 2011
• Vilnius , Lithuania, since 2011
• Itea , Greece, since 2013

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• Isidor Hilberg (1852–1919), Graecist, rector of the University of Chernivtsi
• Michail Ossipowitsch Eisenstein (1867–1920), architect, father of the film director Sergej Eisenstein
• Jossele Rosenblatt (1882–1933), Ukrainian chasan and composer
• Moshe Lifshits (1894-1940), Yiddish poet
• Benzion Wul (1903–1985), physicist
• Boris Samoilowitsch Jampolski (1912–1972), journalist and writer
• Juri Wladimirowitsch Linnik (1915–1972), Russian mathematician
• Lyudmila Pavlitschenko (1916–1974), Soviet sniper
• David Bronstein (1924–2006), chess grandmaster, vice world champion 1951
• Vadim Tumanow (* 1927), Russian mining entrepreneur
• Alexander Wassiljewitsch Medved (* 1937), wrestler and Belarusian sports official
• Feofan Galinskij (1954–2017), Russian Orthodox Archbishop of Berlin and Germany
• Artur Valerjewitsch Dmitrijew (* 1968), figure skater
• Volodymyr Djudja (* 1983), racing cyclist
• Switlana Tschernjawska (* 1984), weightlifter

Connected to the city

• Nikolai Ivanovich Wawilow (1887–1943), Russian biologist

Web links

Commons : Bila Zerkwa  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Information on Bila Tserkva
• map
• Trolleybus network