Poworsk
| Poworsk | |||
| Поворськ | |||
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| Oblast : | Volyn Oblast | ||
| Rajon : | Kovel district | ||
| Height : | 169 m | ||
| Area : | 6.335 km² | ||
| Residents : | 1,875 (2011) | ||
| Population density : | 296 inhabitants per km² | ||
| Postcodes : | 45050 | ||
| Area code : | +380 3352 | ||
| Geographic location : | 51 ° 16 ' N , 25 ° 8' E | ||
| KOATUU : | 0722187401 | ||
| Administrative structure : | 11 villages | ||
| Mayor : | Serhiy Semenyuk | ||
| Address: | вул. Київська 39 45050 c. Поворськ |
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Poworsk (Ukrainian Поворськ ; Russian Поворск , Polish Powórsk ) is a Ukrainian village in the oblast Wolyn . It is located in Kovel district , about 30 kilometers east of the district capital Kovel and 59 kilometers northwest of the oblast capital Lutsk .
On July 1, 2016, the village became the center of the newly established rural municipality Poworsk ( Поворська сільська громада Poworska silska hromada ). At that includes also the 10 villages Hrywjatky (Грив'ятки) Huliwka (Гулівка) Koslynytschi (Козлиничі) Lukiwka (Луківка) Ozerne (Озерне) Pissotschne , Sajatschiwka (Заячівка) Switle (Світле) Schkurat (Шкурат ) and Sytowytschi (Ситовичі), until then the village together with the villages of Huliwka , Oserne and Sajatschiwka formed the district council of the same name .
The village was mentioned in writing in 1498 for the first time and belonged to the third partition of Poland the nobility Republic of Poland (in the province of Volhynia ), then came to the Russian Empire , where the government Volyn was. In 1918/1921 it fell to Poland and came to the Volhynian Voivodeship in the Powiat Kowel , Gmina Powórsk . As a result of the Hitler-Stalin Pact , the Soviet Union occupied the area and made the place the capital of the Poworsk Rajon of the same name in January 1940 , which was soon dissolved, added to the Manevychi Rajon and Poworsk remained a simple village. After Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, the place came under German rule until 1944 (in the Reichskommissariat Ukraine ), came back to the Soviet Union after the Second World War and was incorporated into the Ukrainian SSR , since 1991 Poworsk has been part of today's Ukraine.
Until 1965 he carried the name Powursk (Повурськ), the place grew closer to the northern railway line after the construction of the railway line from Kiev to Kovel.
literature
- Powórsk , 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. 611
Web links
- Entry on the place in the Encyclopedia of the History of Cities and Villages of the Ukrainian SSR (Ukrainian)
- Powórsk . In: Filip Sulimierski, Władysław Walewski (eds.): Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich . tape 8 : Perepiatycha – Pożajście . Walewskiego, Warsaw 1887, p. 895 (Polish, edu.pl ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Відповідно до Закону України "Про добровільне об'єднання територіальних громад" у Волинській області у Ковельському районі Козлиничівська, Пісочненська, Поворська та Ситовичівська сільські ради рішеннями від 30 червня і 1 липня 2016
- ↑ 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
