Kamianets-Podilskyi

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Kamianets-Podilskyi
Кам'янець-Подільський
Coat of arms of Kamianets-Podilskyi
Kamianets-Podilskyj (Ukraine)
Kamianets-Podilskyi
Kamianets-Podilskyi
Basic data
Oblast : Khmelnytskyi Oblast
Rajon : District-free city
Height : 360 m
Area : 26 km²
Residents : 101,728 (January 1, 2015)
Population density : 3,913 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes : 32318
Area code : +380 3849
Geographic location : 48 ° 41 '  N , 26 ° 35'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 40 '40 "  N , 26 ° 35' 14"  E
KOATUU : 6822400000
Administrative structure : 1 city
Mayor : Oleksandr Masurtschak
Address: Майдан Відродження 1
32300 м. Кам'янець-Подільський
Website : http://kam-pod.gov.ua
Statistical information
Kamianets-Podilskyi (Khmelnitsky Oblast)
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Kamjanez-Podilskyj ( Ukrainian Кам'янець-Подільський ; Russian Каменец-Подольский Kamenez-Podolski , Romanian Cameniţa , Polish Kamieniec Podolski (2004) is a city in the western Ukrainian Oblast of Khmelnyz (93,300z). The city is located in the historical region of Podolia .

location

French map from 1691 with city and fortress. It is easy to see how both are surrounded by a tributary of the Smotrytsch River

Kamianets-Podilskyj is located about 20 km northeast of Chotyn in a scenic and strategically exceptional location. The river Smotrych meanders about 60 m deep in the limestone of the Podolian plate. One of these meanders encloses an approximately 700 × 500 m large circular mountain on which the old town was built with the support of fortification walls. Access to this strategically located city was also secured by building a fortress. Today a modern bridge connects the old town with the new town built in the east almost in a checkerboard pattern.

The first balloon flight in Eastern Europe began in the fortress on May 20, 1784 .

history

Kamianets-Podilskyj is one of the oldest cities in Ukraine. The exact age of the city cannot be given. The place is mentioned in chronicles as a city as early as 1106. From the 14th to the 18th century, Kamianets experienced a boom and prosperity. From 1373 it was under Polish rule as the seat of the Podolia Voivodeship ; from 1672 to 1699 the city belonged to the Ottoman Empire . Since the 14th century Kamianets was one of the most important Polish fortresses in Ukraine. During the second partition of Poland , Kamianets came to the Russian Empire in 1793 and was the capital of the Podolia Governorate . In 1918 the Ivan Ohijenko National University was founded here as the first Ukrainian university and in 1919 the city was the interim seat of the Ukrainian National Government. From the end of 1922 the Ukrainian SSR belonged to the Soviet Union .

End of August 1941 murdered SS Einsatzgruppen in the massacre of Kamenetz-Podolsk , more than 23,000 Jews. In 1944 the city suffered in the Kamenez-Podolski battle . When the German 1st Panzer Army was encircled , the Red Army had conquered the city; it was then recaptured by the Germans before the cauldron "migrated" west. The relief blow of the II SS Panzer Corps ( 9th SS Panzer Division "Hohenstaufen" and 10th SS Panzer Division "Frundsberg" ) brought in from France came from the Stanislau area , which was held by the Germans until June 1944 . The reconstruction of the city could only begin after the end of the war. Until then, the city had the Russian name Kamenez-Podolsk / Каменец-Подольск, on August 9, 1944, it was renamed Kamenez-Podolski / Kamjanez-Podilskyj by ukase .

The population of Kamianets was essentially determined by four population groups: Poles , Ukrainians , Armenians and Jews . Each population group had specific residential areas and left traces in the entire city ​​architecture . In the city's heyday, there are said to have been over 30 churches and monasteries. Many are or are being restored.

  • Triumphal arch

  • The Fortress (2019)

  • The Fortress (2010)

  • town hall

Attractions

Town twinning

Kamjanez is twinned with the Polish city of Kalisz .

sons and daughters of the town

See also

Web links

Commons : Kamjanez-Podilskyj  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Military History Research Office , Freiburg im Breisgau
  2. ↑ УКАЗ от 9 августа 1944 года Об уточнении наименований городов: Тарнополь, Черновицы, Каменец-Подольск, Владимир-Волынск, Чертков Украинской ССР in the Russian-speaking Wikisource