Sokolivka (Busk)
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| Соколівка | |||
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| Oblast : | Lviv Oblast | ||
| Rajon : | Busk district | ||
| Height : | 219 m | ||
| Area : | 2.52 km² | ||
| Residents : | 780 (2017) | ||
| Population density : | 310 inhabitants per km² | ||
| Postcodes : | 80526 | ||
| Area code : | +380 3264 | ||
| Geographic location : | 50 ° 2 ' N , 24 ° 51' E | ||
| KOATUU : | 4620685301 | ||
| Administrative structure : | 5 villages | ||
| Address: | 80526 с. Соколівка | ||
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Sokoliwka (Ukrainian Соколівка ; Russian Соколовка / Sokolowka , Polish Sokołówka ) is a village in the Ukrainian Lviv Oblast in western Ukraine with about 800 inhabitants.
The village is located in the west of the historical Galician landscape in the Busk district on the Pusta River (Пуста), about 19 kilometers northeast of the Busk district center and 63 kilometers east of the Lviv oblast center.
Together with the villages of Bajmaky (Баймаки), Hrabyna (Грабина), Labatsch (Лабач) and Ryschany (Рижани) it forms the district council of Sokoliwka .
The place was mentioned in writing for the first time in 1644, received Magdeburg town charter in 1685 , was initially in the aristocratic republic of Poland-Lithuania , Ruthenian Voivodeship , and in 1772 came as Sokolowka to the then Austrian crown land of Galicia (until 1918 then with the status of a market in the Złoczów district ).
After the end of the First World War, the place became part of the Poles , was here from 1921 as Sokołówka in the voivodeship Lemberg , Powiat Złoczów , Gmina Sokołówka and was only occupied by the Soviet Union during World War II and from 1941 to 1944 by Germany and the Galicia district connected. After being reconquered by Soviet troops in 1944, it came back to the Soviet Union in 1945 and was incorporated into the Ukrainian SSR , since 1991 the place has been part of today's Ukraine. Under Soviet rule, the market status was revoked and downgraded to a village.
Web links
- Entry on the place in the Encyclopedia of the History of Cities and Villages of the Ukrainian SSR (Ukrainian)
- Sokołówka . In: Filip Sulimierski, Władysław Walewski (eds.): Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich . tape 11 : Sochaczew – Szlubowska Wola . Walewskiego, Warsaw 1890, p. 35 (Polish, edu.pl ).
