Ruska Mokra

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Ruska Mokra
Руська Мокра
Coat of arms is missing
Ruska Mokra (Ukraine)
Ruska Mokra
Ruska Mokra
Basic data
Oblast : Zakarpattia Oblast
Rajon : Tyachiv Raion
Height : 557 m
Area : 24 km²
Residents : 1,358 (2001)
Population density : 57 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes : 90521
Area code : +380 3134
Geographic location : 48 ° 21 '  N , 23 ° 54'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 20 '54 "  N , 23 ° 54' 3"  E
KOATUU : 2124486101
Administrative structure : 2 villages
Address: вул. Миру 225
90521 с. Руська Мокра
Statistical information
Ruska Mokra (Zakarpattia Oblast)
Ruska Mokra
Ruska Mokra
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Ruska Mokra ( Ukrainian Руська Мокра ; Russian Русская Мокрая Russkaja Mokraja , Slovak Ruská Mokrá , Hungarian Oroszmokra , German Russian Mokra ) is a village in the east of the Ukrainian Transcarpathian Oblast (2001) with about 1300 inhabitants.

View of Ruska Mokra
Street in the village with a church and memorial for the fallen

The Ruthenian name "Mokra" of the village, founded in 1760, means something like wet area . The villagers live mainly from the forest: The rare jobs in the village are largely provided by the local forest administration and, during the summer, women and children also collect berries and mushrooms for sale.

The shade of the surrounding mountains usually shields the village from direct sunlight, so that there is snow in the village on average 162 days a year.

geography

The locality is in the Waldkarpaten to 557  m height in the valley of Mokrjanka ( Мокрянка ), a 32 kilometer source flow of Teresva . From the village of Ust-Tschorna, 5 km downstream , a junction of the Tereswa Valley forest railway leads to Ruska Mokra.

Ruska Mokra is the administrative center of the district council of the same name within the Tyachiv Rajon , to which the neighboring village of Nimezka Mokra ( German: German Mokra ), 8 km upstream, belongs. The Rajon center of Tyachiv is about 65 km south.

Web links

Commons : Ruska Mokra  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Ruska Mokra on the official website of the Verkhovna Rada , accessed on February 28, 2017 (Ukrainian)
  2. Article on the village in Gazeta.ua of April 9, 2008; accessed on February 28, 2017 (Ukrainian)