Rafalivka
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| Рафалівка | |||
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| Oblast : | Rivne Oblast | ||
| Rajon : | Volodymyrez district | ||
| Height : | no information | ||
| Area : | 12.26 km² | ||
| Residents : | 3,341 (2011) | ||
| Population density : | 273 inhabitants per km² | ||
| Postcodes : | 34371 | ||
| Area code : | +380 3634 | ||
| Geographic location : | 51 ° 19 ' N , 26 ° 0' E | ||
| KOATUU : | 5620855400 | ||
| Administrative structure : | 1 urban-type settlement | ||
| Mayor : | Nadija Jussyn | ||
| Address: | вул. 1 Травня 12 34371 смт. Рафалівка |
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Rafaliwka (Ukrainian Рафалівка ; Russian Рафаловка / Rafalowka , Polish Rafałówka ) is an urban-type settlement in the western Ukrainian Rivne Oblast with about 3,300 inhabitants. It is located in a forest area, about 16 kilometers southwest of the Rajons capital Volodymyrez and 79 kilometers north of the Oblast capital Rivne .
history
The place arose as a station settlement through the construction of the Kovel – Kiev railway line in 1902 and was then in the Volyn Governorate as part of the Russian Empire . The station was named after the southeastern village of Polyzi (Полиці). After the end of the First World War , the place became a part of the Second Polish Republic (until 1930 Polesian Voivodeship , then Volhynia Voivodeship , Powiat Sarny, Gmina Rafałówka), in 1928 it became Rafałówka Nowa and at the same time the northwestern village of Rafałówka in Rafałówka Stara (today Stara Rafaliwka ) renamed. After the outbreak of World War II , the area was occupied by the Soviet Union and, from 1941, by Germany . On May 1, 1942, the German occupiers ordered the formation of a ghetto. On August 29, 1942, 2,250 inmates of the ghetto were murdered.
In 1945 the place finally came to the Soviet Union and was incorporated into the Ukrainian SSR . Rafalivka has been part of Ukraine since its independence in 1991. Since 1957 the place has had the status of an urban-type settlement, at the same time the addition of Nowa / Nowaja was deleted and the place received its current name.
literature
- Rafałówka , 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. 643
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