Karaptschiw (Wyschnyzja)
| Karaptchiv | |||
| Карапчів | |||
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| Oblast : | Chernivtsi Oblast | ||
| Rajon : | Vyshnytsia district | ||
| Height : | 280 m | ||
| Area : | Information is missing | ||
| Residents : | 2,158 (2001) | ||
| Postcodes : | 59225 | ||
| Area code : | +380 3730 | ||
| Geographic location : | 48 ° 20 ' N , 25 ° 28' E | ||
| KOATUU : | 7320583001 | ||
| Administrative structure : | 1 village | ||
| Address: | 59225 с. Карапчів | ||
| Website : | Website of the (former) municipal council | ||
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Karaptschiw ( Ukrainian Карапчів ; Russian Карапчов Karaptschow , Romanian Carapciu pe Ceremuş , German until 1918 Karapcziu ) is a village in the west of the Ukrainian Oblast Chernivtsi with about 2100 inhabitants (2001).
The village is located in Bukovina at an altitude of 280 m on the bank of the Hlybotschok ( Глибочок ), a 16 km long tributary of the Cheremosh , 8 km south of the Vashkivtsi community center, 29 km northeast of the Vyshnytsia district center and about 45 km west of the Chernivtsi oblast center .
In the village, founded between 1395 and 1444, there was a narrow-gauge railway for timber transport at the beginning of the 20th century. The village has a wooden church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary from 1816 and with its 1.25 hectare park a monument of landscape gardening of local importance, at the center of which is a country school and the former palace of the Armenian Krishtofovich family. In the park, which was laid out at the end of the 19th century, there are 24 species of trees and bushes.
Until 2016, Karaptschiw was the administrative center of the district council of the same name in the north of Vyshnytsia district , which also included the villages of Babyne ( Бабине , ⊙ ) with about 780 inhabitants and Waly ( Вали , ⊙ ) with about 970 inhabitants. Since 2017 the village has been administratively subordinate to the municipality of Waschkiwzi .
Sons and daughters of the village
- Edgar Kováts (September 27, 1849 - July 4, 1912); Polish, originally Hungarian architect, painter, art theorist and rector of the Lviv Polytechnic
Web links
- Local history of Karaptchiv in the history of towns and villages of the Ukrainian SSR (Ukrainian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Local website on the official website of the Verkhovna Rada ; accessed on December 21, 2018 (Ukrainian)
- ↑ Karaptschiw and Valy ; accessed on December 21, 2018 (Ukrainian)
- ↑ a b Description of the location Karaptschiw on castles.com.ua ; accessed on December 21, 2018 (Ukrainian)
- ↑ a b List of areas and objects of the Chernivtsi Oblast Nature Conservation Fund; accessed on December 21, 2018 (Ukrainian)