Fastiw

Fastiw

Фастів

Fastiw

Basic data

Oblast :

Kiev Oblast

Rajon :

District-free city

Height :

199 m

Area :

43.00 km²

Residents :

46,323 (2018)

Population density :

1,077 inhabitants per km²

Postcodes :

08500-08509

Area code :

+380 4465

Geographic location :

50 ° 4 ' N , 29 ° 55' E Coordinates: 50 ° 4 '29 " N , 29 ° 55' 5" E

KOATUU :

3224900000

Administrative structure :

1 city

Mayor :

Mychajlo Netjaschuk

Address:

площа Соборна буд. 1
08500 м. Фастів

Website :

http://www.fastiv.osp-ua.info

Statistical information

Fastiw

Fastiw ( Ukrainian Фастів ; Russian Фастов Fastow ) is a city in the Ukrainian Oblast of Kiev with about 46,000 inhabitants (2006).

View of Fastiw

St. Nicholas Church in Fastiw

Geographical location

Fastiw is located at an altitude of 199 m on the bank of the Unawa ( Унава ), an 87 km long right tributary of the Irpin , about 64 kilometers southwest of Kiev .

The regional roads P – 04 and P – 19 and the territorial roads T – 10–13 and T – 10–28 run through the city .

history

Fastiw was first mentioned as a small town in 1390 . After the construction of the railway in 1870, the village became an important transport center to the west. In a pogrom during the Russian Civil War in the summer of 1919, the White Army killed 1,500 Jews here as they advanced from the Don region towards Moscow . Fastiw was officially recognized as a city in 1938. In 1941 the German Einsatzgruppe C under Paul Blobel murdered “all Jews between the ages of 12 and 60”.

Population development

Development of the population:

1923 - 12,714
1939 - 20,732
1959 - 30,240
1970 - 42,328
1979 - 51,179
1989 - 50,985
2001 - 51,976
2010 - 48,684
2018 - 46,323

Personalities

Efraim Markowitsch Skljanski (1892–1925), Bolshevik and Soviet politician
Oleksandr Jantschuk (* 1956), film director, producer and screenwriter
Anna Bahrjana (* 1981), writer and translator

Web links

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

Municipal Council website on rada.info (Ukrainian)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Cities and Settlements of Ukraine on pop-stat.mashke.org ; accessed on May 26, 2019
^ Local history Fastiw in the history of the cities and villages of the Ukrainian SSR ; accessed on May 26, 2019 (Ukrainian)
^ Indictment against Einsatzgruppe C, count (F). In: Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals Under Control Council Law No. 10., Vol. IV. District of Columbia 1950, p. 19. This charge is based as evidence on the activity and situation report of the Einsatzgruppen of the Security Police and the SD in the USSR No. 80 of September 11, 1941. In: Yitzhak Arad (Ed.): The Einsatzgruppen Reports. New York 1989, p. 129.

[pop-stat-1] Cities and Settlements of Ukraine on pop-stat.mashke.org ; accessed on May 26, 2019

[2] Local history Fastiw in the history of the cities and villages of the Ukrainian SSR ; accessed on May 26, 2019 (Ukrainian)

[3] Indictment against Einsatzgruppe C, count (F). In: Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals Under Control Council Law No. 10., Vol. IV. District of Columbia 1950, p. 19. This charge is based as evidence on the activity and situation report of the Einsatzgruppen of the Security Police and the SD in the USSR No. 80 of September 11, 1941. In: Yitzhak Arad (Ed.): The Einsatzgruppen Reports. New York 1989, p. 129.