Velyki Mosty

Coordinates: 50°14′24″N 24°08′22″E / 50.24000°N 24.13944°E / 50.24000; 24.13944
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Velyki Mosty
Великі Мо́сти
City
A synagogue in Velyki Mosty
A synagogue in Velyki Mosty
UTC+3 (EEST)
Websitewww.velyki%20mosty-adm.gov.ua[dead link]
Rata River in Velyki Mosty
Historical affiliations

Kingdom of Poland Kingdom of Poland 1472
Austro-Galicia
     Nazi Germany Nazi Germany 1941-1943 (occupation)
Soviet Union Soviet Union 1944-1991
Ukraine Ukraine 1992-present

Velyki Mosty (Ukrainian: Великі Мо́сти, lit. 'Great Bridges', IPA: [vəliki masti]; Polish: Mosty Wielkie; Hebrew: מוסט רבתי) is a city in Chervonohrad Raion of Lviv Oblast (region) of Western Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Velyki Mosty urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.[1] Its population is 6,286 (2022 estimate).[2]

In the

wojt
. Mosty enjoyed several royal privileges, issued in the years 1550, 1553, 1566, 1576, 1583, 1604. The town also became the seat of a starosta.

Until 1772, Mosty remained in Belz Voivodeship. Following the Partitions of Poland, the town became part of Austrian Galicia.[3] In 1846, a complex of military barracks was built in Mosty. In the Second Polish Republic, the Central Police Academy was located here.

The Jewish population was important in the town before World War II.

Synagogue. Throughout the occupation, Ukrainian police assisted in most of the murders of their Jewish neighbors.[5][6][7] The town commander, Captain Johann Kroupa in the military-engineer division of the Wehrmacht, protected Jews from death during the first part of the occupation, employing more than 2000, including 1200 women, and helping forge work permits for some. He was later court-martialed for protecting Jews and ended up in Soviet captivity.[8][9]

Until 18 July 2020, Velyki Mosty belonged to Sokal Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Lviv Oblast to seven. The area of Sokal Raion was merged into Chervonohrad Raion.[10][11]

Currently, Mosty has a local branch of the

Wlodzimierz Stozek
and Austrian painter Siegfried Weyr.

Population

Currently, as of 2021, the population of the town is 6,312 people.

Year Population Change
1880 ~4,000 ~
1890 3,565 -10.87%
1959 3,789 +5.91%
1970 3,920 +3.46%
1979 4,516 +15.2%
1989 5,494 +21.66%
1992 5,800 +5.57%
1998 6,100 +5.17%
2001 5,925 -2.87%
2003 5,877 -0.81%
2004 5,882 +0.08%
2005 5,894 +0.2%
2006 5,934 +0.69%
2007 5,960 +0.44%
2008 5,971 +0.18%
2009 5,996 +0.42
2010 6,010 +0.23%
2011 6,037 +0.45%
2012 6,094 +0.94%
2013 6,121 +0.44%
2014 6,132 +0.18%
2015 6,166 +0.55%
2016 6,213 +0.76%
2017 6,224 +0.18%
2018 6,251 +0.43%
2019 6,298 +0.75%
2021 6,312 +0.22%

References

  1. ^ "Великомостовская 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. OCLC 499369171
    .
  4. ^ "Mosty Wielkie". Virtual Shtetl. Retrieved 24 March 2020.
  5. ^ מוסטי וייֶלקֶיה [Mosty Wielkie]. Yad Vashem (in Hebrew). Retrieved 24 March 2020.
  6. ISBN 978-0-253-35599-7
    .
  7. ISBN 3-89649-998-X
    .
  8. ISBN 978-0-253-35599-7
    .
  9. ^ "Kroupa - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum". collections.ushmm.org. Retrieved 2023-12-29.
  10. ^ "Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ". Голос України (in Ukrainian). 2020-07-18. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
  11. ^ "Нові райони: карти + склад" (in Ukrainian). Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України.

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