Kalush, Ukraine

Coordinates: 49°02′39″N 24°21′35″E / 49.04417°N 24.35972°E / 49.04417; 24.35972
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Kalush
Калуш
City
Flag of Kalush
Flag
Coat of arms of Kalush
Coat of arms
Kalush is located in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast
Kalush
Kalush
Location of Kalush in Ivano-Frankivsk
Kalush is located in Ukraine
Kalush
Kalush
Kalush (Ukraine)
Coordinates: 49°02′39″N 24°21′35″E / 49.04417°N 24.35972°E / 49.04417; 24.35972
Country Ukraine
Oblast Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast
Raion Kalush Raion
Established20 March 1972
Subdivisions
List
  • 1 city municipality
Government
 • MayorAndrii Naida
Area
 • Total65 km2 (25 sq mi)
Population
 (2022)
 • Total65,088
 • Density1,000/km2 (2,600/sq mi)
Area code
380 3472-
Websitehttp://kalush.net

Kalush (Ukrainian: Ка́луш, pronounced [ˈkɑlʊʃ] ⓘ) is a city set in the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains, in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (province) of western Ukraine. It is the administrative centre of Kalush Raion (district) and hosts the administration of Kalush urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.[1] Its estimated population was 65,088 (2022 estimate).[2]

Important local industries include chemicals and concrete.

Geography

Kalush is in the western portion of

Boyko Land
.

History

1889, Kałusz

The earliest known mention of Kalush is the accounting of a village of that name in a chronicle dated May 27, 1437.

Kazimierz Jagiellonczyk
founded a Roman Catholic parish church there.

In 1549 Kalush was incorporated as a city by Crown

Jan Sobieski clashed with Tatars of Selim I Giray, and three years later, Andrzej Potocki fought here with Turks. In 1772, following the Partitions of Poland, the town was seized by the Habsburg Empire
, where it remained until 1918.

Street scene in Kalusz by Heinrich Vogeler, 1915

In 1912–13 prior to World War I near the city of Kalush an oil rig was built. However, instead of oil, the rig ended up extracting a natural gas. For a long time the gas was not utilized, but later was used for heating a potassium quarry and boilers in Boryslav and Drohobych.

In the

Third Reich from 2 July 1941 until 30 July 1944,[5] it returned to the Soviet Union in 1944. During World War II the residents of the city witnessed many ethnocides. In 1940, the Soviets forced inhabitants of Kalush to leave the town and forcefully moved them to Siberia, many of whom were people of various nationalities: Poles, Ukrainians, and others. Then, in late 1941 and 1942, the majority of Kalush's Jewish inhabitants were murdered by the Germans. Since the 16th century, a Jewish community had flourished in the city and at times constituted a majority of its population;[6] however, in 1941, while under Nazi control, that community was virtually eliminated. Polish Home Army (AK) was active in the town and its area. The town itself was captured by the AK in mid-July 1944, during the Operation Tempest. In 1945, Polish residents of Kalush were expelled to the Recovered Territories
.

On March 20, 1972, the city of Kalush became a city of regional importance.

Recently several renovations have taken place of several local temples such as the Temple of All Saints of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Kyiv Patriarchate), the Catholic Saint Valentine Church, and the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church of Saint Nicholas. Kalush residents presented a bust of Taras Shevchenko to Simferopol and erected the first monument to Kobzar on Crimean soil on August 21, 1997.[7] A monument to Shevchenko was also presented to the city of Novohrodivka, Donetsk region, in honor of the 10th anniversary of Ukraine's independence.[8]

Until 18 July 2020, Kalush was incorporated as a city of oblast significance and served as the administrative center of Kalush Raion though it did not belong to the raion. In July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast to six, the city of Kalush was merged into Kalush Raion.[9][10]

Population

Historical population
YearPop.±%
2007 67,180—    
2008 67,150−0.0%
2009 67,207+0.1%
2010 67,453+0.4%
2013 67,585+0.2%
2016 67,519−0.1%
Note: 2010 data is valid through to October[11]

Language

Distribution of the population by native language according to the 2001 census:[12]

Language Number Percentage
Ukrainian 64 715 95.33%
Russian 2 163 3.19%
Other or undecided 1 009 1.48%
Total 67 887 100.00%

Kalush city council in 2010

Note: Percentage indicates correlation to the total number of seats in the city council which is 50. The results of the election were taken from kalush.net where they were published on 4 November 2010.[13][14] Election was half and half, one (25 seats) by the "majority rule", another (25 seats) – by "party-list". There were 15 non-affiliated members, all of whom associated themselves with the Ukrainian Party[15] (2006).

Seats and percentage
Ukrainian Party (32)
 
 64%
Rukh (5)
 
 10%
Fatherland
(5)
 
 10%
Svoboda
(3)
 
 6%
Our Ukraine (2)
 
 4%
FZ
(2)
 
 4%
Party of Regions (1)
 
 2%

Points of interest

The city still contains an old

rathaus which was declared as the National Landmark of Architecture #591. The previous Rathaus was destroyed during the Khmelnytsky Uprising. The new Rathaus served as a town hall and a directory of agriculture since the 20th century. The conditions of the landmark in 2010 were terrible and the Rathaus required some major renovations. A fire broke out ruins of the Rathaus in 2013.[16]

In the city, there is a mount Vysochanka named after a colonel of the Lysyanka Regiment during the Cossack Hetmanate and a leader of the local uprising in 1648 Semen Vysochan.

Gallery

  • Kalush Cultural House
    Kalush Cultural House
  • Downtown Kalush
    Downtown Kalush
  • A church in Kalush
    A church in Kalush
  • Kalush Railway Station
    Kalush Railway Station
  • St. Valentine's Catholic Church in Kalush
    St. Valentine's Catholic Church in Kalush
  • Old chemical plant in Kalush
    Old chemical plant in Kalush
  • Thermal power plant in Kalush
    Thermal power plant in Kalush
  • Kalush city rathaus (abandoned)
    Kalush city rathaus (abandoned)
  • Near the Kalush City Center
    Near the Kalush City Center
  • Kalush
    Kalush
  • Kalush Jewish cemetery
    Kalush Jewish cemetery
  • Kalush prom ratusha
    Kalush prom ratusha
  • Kalush kostiol
    Kalush kostiol
  • Kalush Jewish cemetery
    Kalush Jewish cemetery

Notable people

Twin towns – sister cities

See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in Ukraine

Kalush is twinned with:

Location

Local orientation
Regional orientation

References

  1. ^ "Калужская городская громада" (in Russian). Портал об'єднаних громад України.
  2. ^ Чисельність наявного населення України на 1 січня 2022 [Number of Present Population of Ukraine, as of January 1, 2022] (PDF) (in Ukrainian and English). Kyiv: State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 July 2022.
  3. ^ Історія міста Калуша
  4. ^ Ukrainian youth and townsfolk band together to restore neglected Jewish cemetery, The Times of Israel (23 November 2018)
  5. ^ Освобождение городов
  6. ^ "The Jewish Community of Kalush". Beit Hatfutsot Open Databases Project. The Museum of the Jewish People at Beit Hatfutsot.
  7. ^ "ВІКНА - Калуський Шевченко у Криму". 2015-04-26. Archived from the original on 2015-04-26. Retrieved 2023-12-08.
  8. ^ "На Донеччині відзначили 15-річчя встановленого коштом калушан пам'ятника Шевченкові. ФОТО | ВІКНА. Новини Калуша та Прикарпаття". 2022-02-14. Archived from the original on 2022-02-14. Retrieved 2023-12-08.
  9. ^ "Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України No. 807-ІХ". Голос України (in Ukrainian). 2020-07-18. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
  10. ^ "Нові райони: карти + склад" (in Ukrainian). Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України. 17 July 2020.
  11. ^ Головне управління статистики в Івано-Франківській області [Department of Statistics in Ivano-Frankivsk] (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 20 April 2015.
  12. ^ "Рідні мови в об'єднаних територіальних громадах України" (in Ukrainian).
  13. ^ (in Ukrainian) Plurality winners
  14. ^ (in Ukrainian) Winning parties and their members
  15. ^ (in Ukrainian) Ukrainian Party official website
  16. ^ "Померла Ратуша | ВІКНА. Новини Калуша та Прикарпаття".

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