Tschudniv

Tschudniv
Чуднів
	Tschudniv
Basic data
Oblast :	Zhytomyr Oblast
Rajon :	Chudniv district
Height :	244 m
Area :	10.37 km²
Residents :	5,814 (2014)
Population density :	561 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes :	13200
Area code :	+380 4139
Geographic location :	50 ° 3 '  N , 28 ° 6'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 3 '10 "  N , 28 ° 5' 49"  E
KOATUU :	1825855100
Administrative structure :	1 city
Address:	вул. Леніна 146 13200 м. Чуднів
Statistical information
Tschudniv

Tschudniw ( Ukrainian Чуднів ; Russian Чуднов Tschudnow , Polish Cudnów ) is a city in the south of the Ukrainian Oblast Zhytomyr and the administrative center of the raion of the same name with about 5800 inhabitants (2014).

Geographical location

The Teteriv in Chudniv

The city is located on the Teteriv , a right tributary of the Dnieper , 55 km southwest of the Oblast center Zhytomyr and 39 km northwest of Berdychiv . The trunk road N 03 , which connects Chmelnyzkyj with Zhytomyr, runs through Tschudniw , south of the place the railway line Kovel-Kosjatyn with a train station in the village Wilschanka .

history

The village, founded in 1416, was designated an urban-type settlement in 1924, and on September 6, 2012, it received city status.

In the Russo-Polish War from 1654 to 1667 , the Battle of Tschudniw took place near Tschudniw between September 27 and November 4, 1660 , in which Polish-Lithuanian troops together with the Crimean Tatars against the troops of the Russian Tsarist Empire and the with them allied Cossacks fought. The battle ended with a decisive victory for the Poles. A memorial was set up in the city in 2011 as a reminder.

During the German occupation in World War II , with the participation of Police Battalion 303 , a massacre of 100 Jews took place near Tschudniw in September 1941; the bodies were buried on the town's Mount of Olives. Even after that, the Jews still living in the village were harassed and arbitrarily shot under the responsibility of the area commissioner installed in Tschudnow, but insufficient evidence was found in the criminal proceedings against the area farmer in 1957.

Personalities

• Ivan Feschchenko-Tschopiwskyj (Ukrainian Іван Адріянович Фещенко-Чопівський , 1884–1952); Scientists and politicians
• Wira Scheludchenko (Ukrainian Віра Тимофіївна Шелудченко , * 1952); Mayor of Zhytomyr from 2006 to 2010
• Jan Barszczewski (approx. 1790–1851); Belarusian and Polish poet and writer; spent the last year of his life in Tschudniw, where he died and was buried.

Rajon

The Chudniw Rajon , founded in 1923 and whose administrative center is the city, is located in the southwest of the Zhytomyr Oblast. It has an area of ​​1037 km² and about 36,000 inhabitants. The population density is 35 inhabitants per km².

See also : List of Rajons of Ukraine

Web links

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

• Tschudniw on castles.com.ua

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cities in Ukraine at pop-stat.mashke.org, last accessed on October 16, 2014
2. Jump up ↑ Dorf, the birthplace of the Zhytomyr governor, became a city , accessed on October 16, 2014
3. ↑ Opened memorial at the site of the Chudniv battle ; on unian.ua, accessed October 16, 2014
4. ^ LG Kassel, May 24, 1957 . In: Justice and Nazi crimes . Collection of German criminal convictions for Nazi homicidal crimes 1945–1966, Vol. XIV, edited by Irene Sagel-Grande, HH Fuchs, CF Rüter . Amsterdam: University Press, 1976, No. 445, pp. 135–146 Subject of the proceedings: Individual shooting of several Jewish and non-Jewish women and children ( memento of the original from January 31, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and still Not checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.