Kostopil

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Kostopil Костопіль
City
Centre of Kostopil
UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code	35000—35008
Area code	+380 3657

Kostopil (

Kostopil was the property of Prince Władysław Dominik Zasławski and is mentioned in 1648-58 registers. It was originally a village based on a local iron mine, but in 1792 the local landowner, Leonard Wortzel, obtained town privileges for his estate including the right for an annual fair from Stanisław August Poniatowski, the last King of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. At this time Wortzel changed the town's name to Kostopol.

During the

A local newspaper is published here since 1939.[2]

World War II

The Germans occupied Kostopol on 1 July 1941 and immediately there was a pogrom against the local Jews. The Germans progressively degraded the Jews' position and condition, by enforcing the wearing of yellow stars, imposing forced labour and confiscating Jewish property. On 16 August 1941, the Germans rounded up 470 of the most influential Jews in the community and transported them out of Kostopol, where they were all executed. Another 1,400 Jews related to those who had been executed, were arrested on 1 October and also taken away and killed.

A ghetto was established in Kostopol on 5 October 1941. Despite the great over-crowding, there were no epidemics. One hundred Jews, Judenrat members, Jewish Police and key professionals, were exempt and were allowed to live outside the ghetto. The ghetto was liquidated on 25 August 1942. German police surrounded the ghetto. The ghetto was emptied and the remaining inhabitants were transported to Khotinka, a nearby village, and exterminated upon arrival. A few managed to escape but they were caught and returned to the Germans and murdered. In July 1942 the remaining Jews from Rivne (perhaps 7,000 people) were brought by train to Kostopol and were murdered by German police in a quarry near woods outside the town.

On 24 August, in Kostopol's forced labour camp, 700 Jewish labourers, led by Gedalia Braier, revolted during the daily roll call (

.

Kostopol was liberated by the Red Army on 31 January 1944. Only about 270 Kostopol Jews had survived the German occupation, including those who had escaped eastwards before the mass killings.

In 1952, a medical college was opened here.

In January 1989 the population was 31 610 people.^[3]

Notable people

• Roman Datsiuk — Ukrainian football player.
• Serhiy Kozak [uk] — literary critic, publicist.
• Piasyuk Roman Volodymyrovych (1975—2015) — sergeant of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, participant of the Russian-Ukrainian war.
• Natalia Pogorilchuk [uk] — Ukrainian Geomorphologist, Candidate of Geographical Sciences, Associate Professor of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.
• Olexander Regeza [uk] — member of Ukrainian political movement UPA.
• Ruslan Salivonchyk (1983–2014) — military officer of the Kherson special purpose police patrol volunteer battalion. He died in the battle near Ilovaysk.
• Vitaliy Stavsky (1991—2014) — junior sergeant of the 80th separate airmobile crew. He died on his birthday during an attack by militants at the Luhansk airport.
• Oleksandr Stiohanov [uk] — Ukrainian producer, songwriter, director, screenwriter, composer, and clip-maker.
• Yuriy Tkachuk (1968-2016) — Lieutenant Colonel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, participant in the Russian-Ukrainian War.

References

1. ^ 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.
2. ^ № 3083. «Красный луч» // Летопись периодических и продолжающихся изданий СССР 1986 - 1990. Часть 2. Газеты. М., «Книжная палата», 1994. стр.403
3. ^ Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989 г. Численность городского населения союзных республик, их территориальных единиц, городских поселений и городских районов по полу

External links

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• “Kostopol” - Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Poland, Volume V (Kostopil, Ukraine)
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• Kostopil, Ukraine at JewishGen