Rokyni

Rokyni
Рокині
	Rokyni
Basic data
Oblast :	Volyn Oblast
Rajon :	Lutsk district
Height :	184 m
Area :	1.60 km²
Residents :	1,511 (2011)
Population density :	944 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes :	45626
Area code :	+380 332
Geographic location :	50 ° 50 ′  N , 25 ° 16 ′  E Coordinates: 50 ° 49 ′ 55 "  N , 25 ° 16 ′ 9"  E
KOATUU :	0722855200
Administrative structure :	1 urban-type settlement
Mayor :	Maria Piskaya
Address:	вул. Шкільна 1 45626 смт. Рокині
Statistical information
Rokyni

Rokyni (Ukrainian Рокині ; Russian Рокини / Rokini , Polish Rokinie ) is an urban-type settlement in Ukraine with about 1500 inhabitants. It is located at the confluence of the Serna and the Styr in the Volyn Oblast in Lutsk district , the center of the district and at the same time the center of the Lutsk district is about 10 kilometers to the southeast.

On August 9, 2016, the settlement became part of the newly founded rural community Knjahynynok ( Княгининівська сільська громада Knjahynyniwska silska hromada ), until then the settlement and the village of Bryschtsche ( Брище settlement council ) formed the settlement council of the same name.

history

The place was mentioned in writing for the first time in 1545 as Rukina and until 1795 it was part of the aristocratic republic of Poland-Lithuania in the Volhynia Voivodeship . Then it came to the newly founded Volhynia Governorate as part of the Russian Empire . After the end of the First World War, the place became part of the Second Polish Republic ( Volyn Voivodeship , Powiat Łuck, Gmina Kniahininek). As a result of the Hitler-Stalin Pact , the Soviet Union occupied the area, after the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, the place was under German rule until 1944, came back to the Soviet Union after the Second World War and was incorporated into the Ukrainian SSR . Since 1989 the place has had the status of an urban-type settlement and since 1991 belongs to today's Ukraine.

In the place there is the Museum of the History of Agriculture in Volhynia .

Web links

• Rokinie . In: Filip Sulimierski, Władysław Walewski (eds.): Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich . tape 15 , part 2: Januszpol – Wola Justowska . Walewskiego, Warsaw 1902, p. 546 (Polish, edu.pl ).
• Information about the open air museum

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Відповідно до Закону України "Про добровільне об'єднання територіальних громад" у Волинській області у Луцькому районі Рокинівська селищна та Княгининівська сільська ради рішеннями від 8 і 9 серпня 2016