Kopyschtsche (Olevsk)
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| Копище | |||
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| Oblast : | Zhytomyr Oblast | ||
| Rajon : | Olevsk Raion | ||
| Height : | 156 m | ||
| Area : | 2.83 km² | ||
| Residents : | 983 (2001) | ||
| Population density : | 347 inhabitants per km² | ||
| Postcodes : | 11010 | ||
| Area code : | +380 4135 | ||
| Geographic location : | 51 ° 35 ' N , 27 ° 51' E | ||
| KOATUU : | 1824484801 | ||
| Administrative structure : | 1 village | ||
| Address: | вул. Володимирська 2 11000 м. Олевськ |
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| Website : | Official website of the Territorial Commune of Olevsk | ||
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Kopyschtsche ( Ukrainian Копище ; Russian Копище Kopishche ) is a village in the northwest of the Ukrainian Oblast Zhytomyr on the Belarusian border with about 980 inhabitants (2001).
In the village, which has numerous connections to the neighboring Belarusian village of Hlushkawitschy ( Belarusian Глушкавічы ), there are two shops, a kindergarten, a school, a post office, a museum, a cultural center and a park.
geography
Kopyshche belongs administratively to the territorial municipality of the city of Olevsk . Previously what the village is the administrative center of the eponymous district municipality in northern Rajon Olevsk to still the village Majdan-Kopyschtschenskyj ( Майдан-Копищенський , ⊙ ) was one of about 350 residents.
The village is located at an altitude of 156 m on the bank of the Ubort , a 292 km long right tributary of the Pripyat , 50 km north of the community and district center Olevsk and 195 km north of the Oblast center Zhytomyr . The Belarusian Respublikanskija automabilnyja dorohi (Republic Motorway) 36 runs north and west of the village .
history
The village, located in the historical area of Polesia , was first mentioned in writing in 1598 (according to other sources 1459) as a village in the Kiev Voivodeship of the Lesser Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland-Lithuania .
On July 13, 1941, at the beginning of the German-Soviet War , the village was occupied by the Wehrmacht and liberated by the Red Army on December 31, 1943 .
Kopyschtsche tragedy
In the summer of 1943 there were major guerrilla fights in Polesia, which is why the German occupiers carried out punitive actions in July 1943 ( Operation "Frau Helga" ) and occupied villages in remote areas in which partisan bases were suspected, which is why the residents, out of fear before reprisals, fled into the surrounding forests and swamps . On July 10, 1943 , the approximately 1,000 men deployed for this purpose under the command of Hauptsturmführer Gunfher ( Гюнфхер ) found Kopyschtsche deserted, which is why a negotiator was sent to the residents with the promise that no civilians would be reprimanded. If they returned to their homes immediately to check their documents, they would also receive goods that were in short supply. With this guarantee, the villagers returned to the village on July 11th.
However, when the village was repopulated, the troops surrounded it on the morning of July 13th and began a civilian massacre at 1:15 p.m. in the village, which had 650 houses with more than 3,500 residents before the war the farm building, a school, and 360 houses burned down and 2,887 residents, including 1,347 children, were murdered. Among other things, civilians were locked up in houses, barns and churches and burned.
For the massacre , now known as the Kopyschtsche tragedy ( Копищенської трагедії ) in 1943, there is a mass grave in Kopyschtsche with memorial plaques for those killed, as well as a museum in which the tragic history of the village is presented.
Chernobyl nuclear disaster
By the Chernobyl nuclear disaster was area in April 1986 radioactively contaminated .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b local website on the official website of the Verkhovna Rada ; accessed on April 5, 2020 (Ukrainian)
- ↑ Kopyschtsche, Ukrainian sister of our Khatyn on sb.by from July 12, 2017; accessed on April 5, 2020 (Russian)
- ^ Website of the former municipal council ; accessed on April 5, 2020 (Ukrainian)
- ↑ history Kopyschtsche on the official website of the territorial community Olevsk; accessed on April 5, 2020 (Ukrainian)
- ↑ a b c Local history Kopyschtsche in the history of the cities and villages of the Ukrainian SSR ; accessed on April 5, 2020 (Ukrainian)
- ↑ a b Commemoration of the victims of the events of July 13, 1943 on vgolos.zt.ua of July 13, 2018; accessed on April 5, 2020 (Ukrainian)
- ↑ Kopyschtsche - Zhytomyr Khatyn on politnavigator.net ; accessed on April 5, 2020 (Russian)
- ↑ a b "Earth soaked with blood from children, mothers, old people ..." on the official website of Olevsk Raion on July 11, 2013; accessed on April 5, 2020 (Ukrainian)
- ↑ On the occasion of the anniversary of the Kopyshchen tragedy in the Zhytomyr region, a historical reconstruction of the events of 1943 on zhitomir.info from July 15, 2013; accessed on April 5, 2020 (Ukrainian)
- ↑ Kopyschtsche tragedy on agroparty.in.ua of July 13, 2018; accessed on April 5, 2020 (Ukrainian)
- ↑ On July 12, 2018, on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Kopyschtsche tragedy .. on the official website of Olevsk Raion from July 13, 2018; accessed on April 5, 2020 (Ukrainian)