Laseschchyna

Laseschchyna
Лазещина
	Laseschchyna
Basic data
Oblast :	Zakarpattia Oblast
Rajon :	Rakhiv Raion
Height :	706 m
Area :	10.78 km²
Residents :	4,174 (2004)
Population density :	387 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes :	90633
Area code :	+380 3132
Geographic location :	48 ° 16 '  N , 24 ° 25'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 16 '6 "  N , 24 ° 25' 7"  E
KOATUU :	2123684501
Administrative structure :	1 village
Address:	90633 с. Лазеина 928
Statistical information
Laseschchyna

Laseschtschyna ( Ukrainian Лазещина ; Russian Лазещина Laseschtschina , Slovak Lazeština or Lazešcina , Hungarian Mezőhát ) is a village in the east of the Ukrainian Transcarpathian Oblast with about 4100 inhabitants. The village forms its own district council in the north of the Rajon Rakhiv .

Laseschchyna 2011

Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord in Laseschchyna

The village, founded in 1947, is located in the Forest Carpathians at an altitude of 706  m on the bank of the Laseschtschyna river , a 21 km long tributary of the Black Tisza (Ukrainian: Чорна Тиса Tschorna Tyssa) , which in turn is a source river of the Tisza .

The N 09 national road runs through the village, leading west to the neighboring urban-type settlement of Yasinja and the Rajon center of Rakhiv and to the northeast to the Yablunyzkyj pass and further on to Tatariv and the city of Yaremche in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast .

In Laseschchyna there is the Church of the Transfiguration, a wooden church from 1780. The village also has a train station on the Sighetu Marmației – Ivano-Frankivsk railway line , built in the 1890s, and direct access to the Hoverla and Petros mountains .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ^ Website of the village Laseschchyna on the website of the Verkhovna Rada ; Retrieved April 18, 2017
2. ↑ Laseschchyna - Church of the Transfiguration on derev.org.ua ; accessed on April 18, 2017 (Ukrainian)