Velykyj Schytyn
| Velykyj Schytyn | |||
| Великий Житин | |||
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| Oblast : | Rivne Oblast | ||
| Rajon : | Rivne district | ||
| Height : | 192 m | ||
| Area : | 1.84 km² | ||
| Residents : | 1,232 (2006) | ||
| Population density : | 670 inhabitants per km² | ||
| Postcodes : | 35314 | ||
| Area code : | +380 362 | ||
| Geographic location : | 50 ° 39 ' N , 26 ° 21' E | ||
| KOATUU : | 5624681501 | ||
| Administrative structure : | 1 village | ||
| Address: | вул. Рівненська 74 35 340 с. Великий Житин |
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Welykyj Schytyn ( Ukrainian Великий Житин ; Russian Великий Житин Veliki Schitin , Polish Żytyń Wielki ) is a village and the administrative center of the district council of the same name in the Ukrainian Rivne Oblast with about 1200 inhabitants (2006).
The village was founded in 1518 is located in Rivne Raion on the regional road P-5 and P-77 9 km northeast of the oblast and Rajonzentrum Rivne . The Kustynka ( Кустинка ), a 17 km long left tributary of the Horyn, flows through the village .
On 11 October 2017, the village became part of the newly established rural community Schpaniw (Шпанівська сільська громада / Schpaniwska silska hromada ), until then, the village was the District Municipality Velyky Schytyn with about 2,500 inhabitants and an area of 32.74 square kilometers (with the villages Barmaky ( Бармаки ⊙ ) with about 750 inhabitants and Malyj Schytyn ( Малий Житин ⊙ ) with about 520 inhabitants).
Personalities
- Leonid Kravchuk , the first president of independent Ukraine from 1991 to 1994, was born in Velykyj Schytyn in 1934.
Web links
- Entry on the place in the Encyclopedia of the History of Cities and Villages of the Ukrainian SSR (Ukrainian)
- Żytyń Wielki . In: Filip Sulimierski, Władysław Walewski (eds.): Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich . tape 14 : Vorovo – Żyżyn . Walewskiego, Warsaw 1895, p. 914 (Polish, edu.pl ).
Individual evidence
- ^ Official website of the village on the website of the Verkhovna Rada ; Retrieved February 8, 2015
- ↑ Відповідно до Закону України "Про добровільне об'єднання територіальних громад" у Рівненській області у Рівненському районі Великожитинська та Шпанівська сільські ради рішеннями від 11 жовтня 2017
- ^ Official website of the district council on the website of the Verkhovna Rada ; Retrieved February 8, 2015