Sokyrjany

Sokyrjany

Сокиряни

Sokyrjany

Basic data

Oblast :

Chernivtsi Oblast

Rajon :

Sokyryany district

Height :

232 m

Area :

Information is missing

Residents :

9,883 (2005)

Postcodes :

60200

Area code :

+380 3739

Geographic location :

48 ° 27 ' N , 27 ° 25' E Coordinates: 48 ° 26 '53 " N , 27 ° 24' 42" E

KOATUU :

7324010100

Administrative structure :

1 city

Mayor :

Wassyl Rawlik

Address:

вул. Кобилянська 6a
60200 м. Сокиряни

Statistical information

Sokyrjany

Sokyrjany (Ukrainian Сокиряни ; Russian Сокиряны / Sokirjany , Romanian Secureni ) is a district town in the Ukrainian Chernivtsi Oblast . It is located near the Dniester in the border area with the Republic of Moldova , about 111 km east of Chernivtsi in the area of northern Bessarabia .

history

The city was mentioned in writing for the first time in 1666 and then belonged to the Principality of Moldova until 1711 , after which it was part of the Ottoman Empire until Bessarabia was ceded to Russia in 1812. In 1893 the place got a railway connection ( railway line Chernivtsi - Ocnița ), after the end of the First World War it came to Romania (in the district of Hotin ), but became part of the Soviet Union in the course of the annexation of Bessarabia on August 2, 1940 (between 1941 and 1944 again to Romania) and has been part of Ukraine since 1991.

Sokyrjany has had city status since 1966, and before the Second World War there was a large Jewish population. The Ukrainian prison camp No. 67 exists south of the city.

According to the legend, the name is derived from the Ukrainian name "Sokyra" / Сокира for ax, with which the people who fled the Dniester river bank from the Turks fell the trees in the dense forest of the hinterland and built a new place.

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