Nemyriv

Nemyriv

Немирів

Nemyriv

Basic data

Oblast :

Vinnytsia Oblast

Rajon :

Nemyriv Raion

Height :

260 m

Area :

1.30 km²

Residents :

11,424 (January 1, 2004)

Population density :

8,788 inhabitants per km²

Postcodes :

22800

Area code :

+380 4331

Geographic location :

48 ° 58 ' N , 28 ° 50' E Coordinates: 48 ° 58 '4 " N , 28 ° 50' 6" E

KOATUU :

523010100

Administrative structure :

1 city

Mayor :

Viktor Katschur

Address:

вул. Леніна 28
22800 м. Немирів

Statistical information

Nemyriv

Nemyriw (Ukrainian Немирів ; Russian Немиров / Nemirow , Polish Niemirów ) is a town in the Ukrainian oblast Winnyzja . It is located about 40 km southeast of the Oblast capital Vinnytsia on the Ustya River .

The place, first mentioned in writing in 1506, was built on the remains of the Scythian settlement Mirow , which was destroyed during the Mongol invasion. In the 17th century the place was a center of the Cossack Wars , in 1737 the place was the scene of the peace negotiations to end the Russo-Austrian Turkish War . Because of its favorable location on the trade routes, the place was a trading center. There was a Lutheran, a Greek Catholic and a Roman Catholic church in the village. Immediately before the Second World War, the Jewish population was three thousand, that was a third of the population, they were ghettoized by the Germans, forced into forced labor and murdered in batches in several local actions.

Today the city is also known for the Nemiroff vodka .

Personalities

Nikolai Alexejewitsch Nekrasow (1821–1878), Russian poet and publicist
Theodosius Dobzhansky (1900–1975), Russian-American geneticist, zoologist, and evolutionary biologist
Israel Aksenfeld (1787–1866), secular Yiddish writer and enlightener ( "Maskil" )
Leon Axenfeld (1804-1830), doctor
Karl Adolfowitsch Krug (1873–1952), Russian-Baltic electrical engineer who was largely responsible for the GOELRO plan during the Soviet era
Roman Holovashchenko (* 1987), professional boxer

literature

Nemirov , in: Guy Miron (Ed.): The Yad Vashem encyclopedia of the ghettos during the Holocaust . Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2009 ISBN 978-965-308-345-5 , pp. 518f.