Verkhnye Vysotske
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| Верхнє Висоцьке | |||
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| Oblast : | Lviv Oblast | ||
| Rajon : | Turka district | ||
| Height : | 651 m | ||
| Area : | 4.0 km² | ||
| Residents : | 2,118 (2001) | ||
| Population density : | 530 inhabitants per km² | ||
| Postcodes : | 82554 | ||
| Area code : | +380 3269 | ||
| Geographic location : | 48 ° 57 ' N , 23 ° 3' E | ||
| KOATUU : | 4625581301 | ||
| Administrative structure : | 1 village | ||
| Address: | 82554 с. Верхнє Висоцьке | ||
| Website : | City council website | ||
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Verkhnye Wyssozke ( Ukrainian Верхнє Висоцьке ; Russian Верхнее Высоцкое Verkhneye Wyssozkoje , Polish Wysocko Wyżne ) is a village in the southwest of the Ukrainian Lviv Oblast with about 2100 inhabitants (2001).
Verkhnye Wyssozke is the only village in the 4 km² district council of the same name .
Geographical location
The village is located in the Carpathian Forest on the banks of the Stryj in the south of the Turka district , 29 km south of the Turka district center and about 150 km southwest of the Lviv oblast center .
The highest point of the village is on the mountain Kreschowa ( Крешова ) in the east of Verkhnye Vysotske at 834 m and the lowest point is in the valley of the Stryi in the north of the village at 625 m . Territorial road T-14-23 runs through the village .
history
The village, first mentioned in writing in 1430, was initially in the Ruthenian Voivodeship of the aristocratic republic of Poland-Lithuania and belonged to Austria after the First Polish Partition in 1772 . Until the end of the First World War it was in the Turka district of the Austrian crown land of Galicia and Lodomeria and then briefly belonged to the West Ukrainian People's Republic until the end of the Polish-Ukrainian War . In the interwar period it was part of the Lviv Voivodeship within the Second Polish Republic . After the Soviet occupation of eastern Poland , the village came to the Soviet Union between 1939 and 1941 as part of the Ukrainian SSR and, after the occupation by the Wehrmacht, was incorporated by Germany into the Galicia District of the General Government until 1944 .
After the end of World War II , the village was again added to the Ukrainian SSR and after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 it became part of the independent Ukraine.
Sons and daughters of the village
- Wiktor Wysoczański (* 1939), senior bishop of the Polish Catholic Church
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b local website on the official website of the Verkhovna Rada ; accessed on February 9, 2020 (Ukrainian)
- ^ Website of the district council on the official website of the Verkhovna Rada; accessed on February 9, 2020 (Ukrainian)
- ↑ Wysocko Wyżne . In: Filip Sulimierski, Władysław Walewski (eds.): Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich . tape 14 : Vorovo – Żyżyn . Walewskiego, Warsaw 1895, p. 120 (Polish, edu.pl ).
- ↑ history Verkhnye Wyssozke in the history of the towns and villages of the Ukrainian SSR ; accessed on February 9, 2020 (Ukrainian)