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 Мости
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Synagogue
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Websitewww.velyki%20mosty-adm.gov.ua[dead link‍]

Velyki Mosty (

Yiddish: גרויס־מאָסטע) is a city in Sheptytskyi 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]

History

Historical affiliations

Kingdom of Poland 1472–1772
Habsburg monarchy 1772–1918
 Second Polish Republic 1918–1939
    Soviet Union 1939–1941 (occupation)
    Nazi Germany 1941–1944 (occupation)
 Soviet Union 1944–1991
 Ukraine 1991–present

In the

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

Following the First Partition of Poland (1772), 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.

Fire station in 1937

The Jewish population was important in the town before World War II.[4]

Following the joint German-Soviet

synagogue. Throughout the occupation, Ukrainian police assisted in most of the murders of their Jewish neighbors.[6][7][8] 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 2,000, including 1,200 women, and helping forge work permits for some. He was later court-martialed for protecting Jews and ended up in Soviet captivity.[9][10]

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 (modern Sheptytskyi Raion).[11][12]

Currently, Mosty has a local branch of the Association of Polish Culture of the Lviv Land.

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%
Rata River in Velyki Mosty

Notable people

Among people born here are photographer

Wlodzimierz Stozek
and Austrian painter Siegfried Weyr.

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. ^ Krystyna Balicka. "Zagłada policji polskiej" (in Polish). Retrieved 31 October 2024.
  6. ^ מוסטי וייֶלקֶיה  [Mosty Wielkie]. Yad Vashem (in Hebrew). Retrieved 24 March 2020. {{cite web}}: no-break space character in |script-title= at position 19 (help)
  7. ISBN 978-0-253-35599-7
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  8. ISBN 3-89649-998-X
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  9. ISBN 978-0-253-35599-7
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  10. ^ "Kroupa - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum". collections.ushmm.org. Retrieved 2023-12-29.
  11. ^ "Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ". Голос України (in Ukrainian). 2020-07-18. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
  12. ^ "Нові райони: карти + склад" (in Ukrainian). Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України.
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