Rudky

Rudky Ру́дки
City
Town hall
UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code	81440
Area code	+380 3236
Website	місто Рудки (in Ukrainian)

Rudky (

Rudky is located along the Highway Ukraine ( H 13) – Lviv – Sambir – Uzhhorod at a distance 48 kilometres (30 mi) from the regional center Lviv, 26 kilometres (16 mi) from the district center Sambir, and 200 kilometres (120 mi) from Uzhhorod.
This is placed on the main European watershed, above the river Vyshnya^[3] (right tributary of the river San).

History

The town is the resting place of the Polish poet Aleksander Fredro, who was buried in a local Roman Catholic church in 1876. Rudky is on the Vishnya river and is the home of the Vyshnia College of the Lviv National Agricultural University. Rudky Arboretum is on the southern edge of the town.

Rudky (known in Polish as Rudki) was founded in the late 14th century in

On June 27, 1941, the Germans occupied Rudki. In July, the Einsatzgruppen murdered 39 leaders of the Jewish community in the Berezina forest.^[4] On April 9, 1943, during the liquidation of the ghetto, Ukrainian policemen assisted German police and SD in executing about 1,700 Jews near the Brzezina forest and deporting about 300 Jews to the Janowska camp in Lviv.^[5][6][7]

On July 15, 2016, Archbishop Mieczyslaw Mokrzycki of the Roman Catholic Church dedicated the museum of Polish playwright and poet Aleksander Fredr, which was opened on the 140th anniversary of the death of the prominent Polish playwright in the bell tower of the Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in Rudkiv (now the sanctuary of Our Lady of Rudkiv). The museum's exposition includes materials on the life and work of Aleksander Fredr, publications of his works, and theater posters from around the world.^[8]

Cult constructions and religion

In the city various religions and cultures have co-existed. However, almost the entire Jewish community of around two thousand were murdered here during World War II with the help of some of the local population. A few other local farmers rescued and hid a few Jews at the risk of their own lives. The few survivors did not return to the community. At present there are Greek Catholic, the Orthodox and the Roman Catholic parishes. The city has a Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Church of the Holy Eucharist and Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC Church for the Christians.

Architectural monument of Sambir Raion is the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC Church (1407/ 1).

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  Church of the Holy Eucharist
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  Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary RC Church
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  Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
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  Memorial plaque to Alexander Fredro (1793-1876) at the Roman Catholic Church of the Assumption in the Rudky.

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