Rokytne (Rokytne, Rivne)
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| Рокитне | |||
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| Oblast : | Rivne Oblast | ||
| Rajon : | Rokytne district | ||
| Height : | no information | ||
| Area : | 55.20 km² | ||
| Residents : | 7,143 (2004) | ||
| Population density : | 129 inhabitants per km² | ||
| Postcodes : | 34200 | ||
| Area code : | +380 3635 | ||
| Geographic location : | 51 ° 17 ' N , 27 ° 13' E | ||
| KOATUU : | 5625055100 | ||
| Administrative structure : | 1 urban-type settlement | ||
| Mayor : | Victor Tatus | ||
| Address: | вул. Незалежності 15 34200 смт. Рокитне |
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Rokytne (Ukrainian Рокитне ; Polish Rokitno , Russian Рокитное / Rokitnoje ) is an urban-type settlement and seat of a district administration in the Rivne Oblast in Ukraine . Rokytne's train station is called Rokytne-Wolynske .
history
The urban-type settlement was established as a train station settlement in the 1880s as part of the construction of the current Kovel – Kiev railway line and is a local center in Rivne Oblast.
The settlement was initially located in the Volhynian Governorate in the Russian Empire and came to Poland in 1921 after the end of the First World War . Until 1922 the station settlement was called Ochotnikowo (Russian Охотниково) and was then renamed after the north-lying village of Rokitno (today Rokytne). Due to the growing importance and economic development of Rokitno, the town was granted town charter in 1927, but this was revoked after the Soviet occupation of eastern Poland in September 1939 and the town, now called Rokitnoje , was degraded to an urban-type settlement in 1940 , at the same time it became the capital of the Rokytne district . After it was occupied by Germany from 1941 to 1944, the place came back to the Soviet Union in the Ukrainian SSR after the end of the Second World War and has been part of today's Ukraine since 1991. Before the Second World War, there were around 3,000 Jews in the city, about a fifth of the population. On April 15, 1942, you and the Jews from the surrounding area were forced into a ghetto. On August 26, 1942, there was a mass exodus.
The village of Rokytne borders immediately to the north on the urban settlement of Rokytne .
literature
- Rokitno , 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. 662
Web links
- Entry on the place in the Encyclopedia of the History of Cities and Villages of the Ukrainian SSR (Ukrainian)
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