Shepetivka

Shepetivka
Шепетівка
	Shepetivka
Basic data
Oblast :	Khmelnytskyi Oblast
Rajon :	District-free city
Height :	no information
Area :	40.0 km²
Residents :	41,599 (2019)
Population density :	1,040 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes :	30409-30409
Area code :	+380 3840
Geographic location :	50 ° 11 '  N , 27 ° 4'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 11 '10 "  N , 27 ° 3' 45"  E
KOATUU :	6825500000
Administrative structure :	1 city
Mayor :	Svyatoslav Shpilchenko
Address:	вул. Островського 4 30400 м. Шепетівка
Statistical information
Shepetivka

Schepetiwka ( Ukrainian Шепетівка ; Russian Шепетовка Schepetowka , Polish Szepetówka ) is a city in Ukraine with about 42,000 inhabitants (as of 2019). The city is located about 100 km north of the city of Khmelnytskyi on the Huska River ( Гуска ).

City council building in place

At the time of the USSR , the city was an important traffic junction, as five important railway lines met here, and the Kovel – Kosjatyn , Ternopil – Shepetivka and Kelmenzi – Kalinkawitschy railway lines still meet here .

history

The first mention of it comes from 1594 . As early as 1619, the place received city rights for the first time and was again recognized as a city in 1923. Seven years later, in 1930 , the city became the capital of Shepetivka Raion . Since 1954, Shepetivka Raion and city have belonged to Khmelnytskyi Oblast .

The Great Synagogue , which was probably built in the first half of the 19th century, was damaged but not destroyed in World War I and World War II. Today (2020) it has been carefully renovated.

In the city there was a prisoner of war camp 306 for German prisoners of war of the Second World War .

sons and daughters of the town

• Valentina Matvijenko (* 1949), Russian politician and governor of Saint Petersburg

Web links

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

• Szepetówka . In: Filip Sulimierski, Władysław Walewski (eds.): Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich . tape 11 : Sochaczew – Szlubowska Wola . Walewskiego, Warsaw 1890, p. 898 (Polish, edu.pl ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cities & Towns of Ukraine on pop-stat.mashke.org ; accessed on January 9, 2019
2. ↑ Maschke, Erich (ed.): On the history of the German prisoners of war of the Second World War. Verlag Ernst and Werner Gieseking, Bielefeld 1962–1977.