Rudky

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Rudky
Рудки
Rudky coat of arms
Rudky (Ukraine)
Rudky
Rudky
Basic data
Oblast : Lviv Oblast
Rajon : Sambir district
Height : 263 m
Area : 3.8 km²
Residents : 4,912 (2004)
Population density : 1,293 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes : 81440
Area code : +380 3236
Geographic location : 49 ° 39 '  N , 23 ° 29'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 39 '9 "  N , 23 ° 29' 10"  E
KOATUU : 4624210400
Administrative structure : 1 city, 12 villages
Mayor : Taras Kurylo
Address: пл. Відродження 1а
81440 м. Рудки
Statistical information
Rudky (Lviv Oblast)
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Rudky (Ukrainian Рудки ; Russian Rudki , Polish Rudki ) is a small town in western Ukraine about 42 kilometers southwest of the Oblast capital Lviv on the river Vyshenka (Вишенька).

City Hall
View of the city center

On October 29, 2017, the city became the center of the newly founded municipality of Rudky (Рудківська міська громада / Rudkiwska miska hromada ), which also includes the 12 villages Kolbajewytschi (Колшикаєвичікі), Konjuschski вівski-Tulyushky (Колшикаєвичон і вскика вичо), Konjuschski воскавикон колкикавичо (Конюшки-Тулиголівські) Krukowez (Круковець) Malyniw (Малинів) Nowyj Ostriw (Новий Острів) Pidhajtschyky , Podilzi (Подільці) Pohirzi (Погірці) Sadnistrjany (Задністряни) Sussoliw (Сусолів) and Tschajkowytschi , previously formed it is the Rudky City Council .

The place arose at the end of the 14th century as a chutor / dairy under the name Benkowa Bytschnja , in 1472 the place was named Rudki . The city belonged to Austrian Galicia from 1774 to 1918 and was the seat of the District Authority Rudki from 1854 to 1918 , together with a district court established in 1867, they existed until 1918. After the end of the First World War, the place became part of Poland and was here from 1921 in the Lviv Voivodeship as the seat of the Powiat Rudki of the same name . In the Second World War, after the Soviet occupation of eastern Poland from September 1939 to 1941, Rudky became part of the Soviet Union, which made the city the capital of Ujesd Rudki , and from January 1940 then the district capital of Rudky / Rudki district within the Drohobych Oblast . After the attack on the Soviet Union in June 1941, it was occupied by Germany and incorporated into the Galicia district.

Before the start of the war, about 2000 Jews lived in Rudki, that was half the population. 1,700 of them were murdered on April 9, 1943 by an SS unit led by Erich Engels in the forest of Brzezany, 300 were deported to the Lemberg-Janowska forced labor camp.

In 1944 the city finally came to the Soviet Union , there it became part of the Ukrainian SSR and has been part of today's Ukraine since 1991. The place remained the capital of the Rajon until 1962, after which it came to the Sambir Rajon .

Personalities

  • HW Katz (1906–1992), Austrian writer
  • Aleksander Fredro (1793–1876), Polish playwright, most important comedy writer in Poland (buried in Rudky)

literature

  • Rudki , 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. 669

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. Відповідно до Закону України "Про добровільне об'єднання територіальних громад" уо Львівмад "уо Львівсь Сасай онуромад" уо Львівсь Сасай онуромад "уо Львівсь Сасй онуромад" онуровсь Сасй онуромад "онуровсь Сасй онуромад" уо Львівсь Сайтонуромад "уо Львівсь Сайтонуромад" уо Львівсь
  2. ^ Reichsgesetzblatt of April 24, 1854, No. 111, page 401