Pishcha
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| Піща | |||
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| Oblast : | Volyn Oblast | ||
| Rajon : | Shazk district | ||
| Height : | 162 m | ||
| Area : | 0.9 km² | ||
| Residents : | 1,162 (2004) | ||
| Population density : | 1,291 inhabitants per km² | ||
| Postcodes : | 44010 | ||
| Area code : | +380 3355 | ||
| Geographic location : | 51 ° 37 ' N , 23 ° 49' E | ||
| KOATUU : | 0725783901 | ||
| Administrative structure : | 4 villages | ||
| Address: | вул. Шкільна 1 44010 с. Піща |
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Pishcha ( Ukrainian Піща ; Russian Пища , Polish Piszcza ) is a village and the center of the district council of the same name in the north of the Ukrainian Oblast Volyn with about 1100 inhabitants (2006).
The village is known for the Church of St. Kazan, built in 1801, which is a monument of national importance.
history
The place already existed in the aristocratic republic of Poland-Lithuania (in the Brześć Litewski Voivodeship .). After the third partition of Poland , it came to the Russian Empire in 1795 and became part of Poland in 1921 . As a result of the Hitler-Stalin Pact , the occupied Soviet Union the area, after the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 was the site until 1944 under German occupation, came to the liberation by the Red Army back to the Soviet Union, they divided it into the Ukrainian SSR a In 1991 it became part of what is now Ukraine.
geography
Pishcha lies within the Biosphere Reserve National Park Shazk on Lake Pishshanske and on the T-03-07 territorial road in the north of the Shazk district near the border with the Malaryta district in Belarus . The Rajon center Shatsk is 17 km south and the city of Kovel 100 km southeast of the village.
In addition to Pishcha, the district municipality of Pishcha also includes the villages of Kamjanka ( Кам'янка ⊙ ) with about 130 inhabitants, Ostrivja ( Острів'я ⊙ ) with about 520 inhabitants and Satyschtschja ( Затишшя ⊙ ) with about 260 inhabitants.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ page of the village on the website of the Verkhovna Rada ; accessed on February 22, 2015
- ↑ St. Kazan's Church website ; accessed on February 22, 2015
- ↑ Rizzi Zannoni, Woiewództwa Lubelskie y Rawskie. Mazowsze y Podlasie Południowe. Część Pułnocna Woiewództw Bełzkiego, Ruskiego y Sendomirskiego, część zachodnia Województwo (!) Wolyńskiego y Brzeskiego - Litewskiego .; 1772
