Olhopil, Vinnytsia Oblast
Olhopil
Ольго́піль | |
|---|---|
Village | |
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  Olhopil Location in Ukraine  Olhopil Olhopil (Ukraine) | |
| Coordinates: 48°11′47″N 29°29′47″E / 48.19639°N 29.49639°E | |
| Country | Ukraine |
| Oblast | Vinnytsia |
| Raion | Haisyn |
| First established | 1780 |
| Population (1926) | |
| • Total | 2,172 |
Olhopil (Ukrainian: Ольго́піль) is a village in Haisyn Raion of Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine.
First known since 1780 as Rohuzka Chechelnytska (
uyezd of Podolia Governorate
.
Before the 1917 Revolution, Olgopol (also, spelled Olhopil) was a district town in the province of
Jewish
population in 1847 was 247; by 1897 the number had increased to 2,473.
Olgopol suffered heavily in 1919 at the hands of the
forced labor
in the vicinity.
Population
Language
Distribution of the population by native language according to the 2001 census:[2]
| Language | Percentage |
|---|---|
| Ukrainian | 98.5% |
| Russian | 1.3% |
| other/undecided | 0.2% |
Notable people
- Nataliya Polovynka (born 1965), singer and actress
Further reading
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (in Russian). 1906.
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References
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- ^ Mikhail Levchenko. Hanshchyna (Ганьщина Україна). Opyt russko-ukrainskago slovari︠a︡. Tip. Gubernskago upravlenii︠a︡, 1874.
- ^ https://socialdata.org.ua/projects/mova-2001/