Tortschyn

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Tortschyn
Torchin
Tortschyn coat of arms
Tortschyn (Ukraine)
Tortschyn
Tortschyn
Basic data
Oblast : Volyn Oblast
Rajon : Lutsk district
Height : 213 m
Area : 10.52 km²
Residents : 4,474 (2011)
Population density : 425 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes : 45612
Area code : +380 332
Geographic location : 50 ° 46 '  N , 25 ° 0'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 45 '49 "  N , 24 ° 59' 55"  E
KOATUU : 0722855400
Administrative structure : 1 urban-type settlement , 9 villages
Mayor : Yuri Krewskyi
Address: вул. Незалежності 103
45612 смт. Torchin
Statistical information
Tortschyn (Volyn Oblast)
Tortschyn
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Tortschyn (Ukrainian Торчин ; Russian Торчин / Tortschin , Polish Torczyn ) is an urban-type settlement in Ukraine with about 4400 inhabitants. It is located on the river Serna (Серна) in the Volyn Oblast in the Lutsk district , the district center and at the same time the Oblast center Lutsk is located about 22 kilometers to the east.

Panoramic view of the place

On January 29, 2018, the settlement became the center of the newly established Tortschyn settlement community (Торчинська селищна громада / Tortschynska selyschtschna hromada ). At that include also the nine villages Bilostok (Білосток) Budjany (Буяни) Horswyn (Горзвин) Koschiw (Кошів) Sadiw (Садів) Ussytschi (Усичі) Ussytschiwski Budky (Усичівські Будки) Werchy (Верхи) and Wessele (Веселе), until then the settlement formed the settlement council of the same name.

history

The place was mentioned in writing for the first time as Torczaka in 1093 and was Torczyn until 1795 as part of the aristocratic republic of Poland-Lithuania in the Volhynian Voivodeship . Then it came to the newly founded Volhynia Governorate as part of the Russian Empire . After the end of the First World War, the place became part of the Second Polish Republic ( Volyn Voivodeship , Powiat Łuck, Gmina Torczyn). As a result of the Hitler-Stalin Pact , the area was occupied by the Soviet Union and was under German occupation from 1941 to 1944 after the German invasion of the Soviet Union , came back to the Soviet Union in 1945, was incorporated into the Ukrainian SSR and has been part of today's Ukraine since 1991 . Since 1940 the place has had the status of an urban-type settlement.

Web links

Commons : Tortschyn  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Відповідно до Закону України "Про добровільне об'єднання територіальних громад" у Волинській області у Луцькому районі Торчинська селищна, Білостоцька, Буянівська, Веселівська та Садівська сільські ради рішеннями від 26 і 29 січня 2018