Pochayiv

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Pochayiv
Почаїв
Pochayiv coat of arms
Pochayiv (Ukraine)
Pochayiv
Pochayiv
Basic data
Oblast : Ternopil Oblast
Rajon : Kremenets district
Height : 356 m
Area : 24.04 km²
Residents : 7,812 (2015)
Population density : 325 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes : 47027
Area code : +380 3546
Geographic location : 50 ° 0 ′  N , 25 ° 30 ′  E Coordinates: 50 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  N , 25 ° 30 ′ 30 ″  E
KOATUU : 6123410500
Administrative structure : 1 city , 3 villages
Address: вул. Возз'єднання 16
47025 м. Почаїв
Website : City Council website
Statistical information
Pochayiv (Ternopil Oblast)
Pochayiv
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Pochaiv ( Ukrainian Почаїв ; Russian Почаев Pochayiv , Polish Poczajów ) is a town in the north of the western Ukrainian oblast Ternopil with about 8,000 inhabitants.

View of the monastery in the village

The Dormition Monastery in the city is the second largest monastery in Ukraine and one of the most important pilgrimage sites. St. Job of Pochayiv is buried in him.

View of downtown Pochayiv

Geographical location

The city is located in the southwest of the Kremenets district at an altitude of 356  m , five kilometers west of the left bank of the Ikwa . It is located 23 km southwest of the Kremenets district center and 62 km north of the Ternopil oblast center . In the city, the territorial road T – 20–13 meets the trunk road N 02 ( regional road P – 26 ).

Administrative division

On August 7, 2015 Pochaiv became the administrative center of the newly established municipality Pochaiv ( Почаївська міська громада Potschajiwska miska hromada ), to which even the 3 villages Komaryn ( Комарин ) Zatyshshia ( Затишшя ) and Stary Tarasch ( Старий Тараж ) count. Previously, only the northeastern village Satyschschja belonged to the municipality.

history

Pochayiv was mentioned in writing for the first time in 1450. The name is derived from the eight-kilometer-long right tributary of the Dnieper , the Pochajna , in northern Kiev , which no longer exists today . On its banks was the abandoned monastery of the monks, who fled to the west after the Mongol invasion of the Rus in the 13th century and founded a new settlement on today's monastery mountain. In 1978 it was given city status.

From 1340 to 1569 the village was in the Kingdom of Poland . Between 1569 and 1795 it was part of the Ruthenian Voivodeship of the aristocratic republic of Poland-Lithuania . After the third partition of Poland , Pochayiv was from 1795 to 1915 in the Volhynia Governorate of the Russian Empire near the border with Galicia . Between 1918 and 1939 it was part of the Volyn Voivodeship within the Second Polish Republic under its Polish name Poczajów Nowy . In 1939 it was occupied by the Soviet Union , which in 1940 made it the center of the Pochayiv Rajons of the same name , which lasted until 1962. After the attack on the Soviet Union , Germany became part of it in June 1941. The German occupiers incorporated the city into the Reichskommissariat Ukraine , with hundreds of Jews shot by September 1942. In January 1942 a ghetto was established. After the reconquest by the Red Army on March 20, 1944, the village became part of the Ukrainian SSR and since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 it has been part of the independent Ukraine.

The present city emerged only after the merger of the villages Novy Pochaiv ( Новий Почаїв ) Jurydyka ( Юридика ) and Novy Tarasch ( Новий Тараж ) to the municipality Schdanowa ( Жданова ) in 1948, 1950 this town Pochaiv was called and received the status of a settlement urban type , on May 8, 1978, the community then received city status, at the same time the northwestern village of Staryj Pochayiv ( Старий Почаїв ) was incorporated together with Satyschschja . Staryj Pochayiv kept its own city council until 1992 and was then spun off again as an independent municipality.

literature

  • Poczajów , in: Guy Miron (Ed.): The Yad Vashem encyclopedia of the ghettos during the Holocaust . Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2009 ISBN 978-965-308-345-5 , p. 603

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Відповідно до Закону України "Про добровільне об'єднання територіальних громад" у Тернопільській області у Кременецькому районі: Почаївська міська та Старотаразька сільська ради рішеннями від 7 серпня 2015
  2. ^ Entry on Pochayiv in the Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine ; accessed on 2020 (ukrainian)