Volochysk
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Volochysk
Волочиськ Wołoczyska | |
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UTC+3 (EEST) | |
Postal code | 31200 - 31208 |
Area code | +380 3845 |
Website | http://www.volochisk.info |
Volochysk (
Located on the left bank of Zbruch, the city along with its vis-a-vis Pidvolochysk on the opposite bank of the river for almost 200 years was an important border checkpoint between Russia and the countries of the Central Europe. Volochysk is an important transport center. Railroads and highways of national importance go through the town.
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History
Volochysk is first mentioned as early as July 9, 1463
Volochysk area was ravaged in 1241 by
Volochysk is first mentioned as “Volochyshche” in Podil statement of
The welfare of Volochysk (which was then known in Polish as Woloczysk) grew after its people started trading with other towns of the area. Landlord prince Wladyslaw Zbaraski received the right from the government to establish a village in the area of the settlement in 1557 and since 1558 Volochysk was called a village. There were 135 households with 675 people. Volochysk became a trade-craftsmen community. Zbaraski family died out after Jerzy Zbaraski died and thus Volochysk was inherited by the Wisniowiecki princes in 1631.
The
Potocki sold Volochysk together with all his estates to the Polish crown marshal
The population of the village was illiterate at the beginning of the 19th century, because there were no schools till that time. The first grade school was established there only in 1801, but only children of rich people studied there. A number of manufacturing enterprises appears in Volochysk in the second part of the 19th century. There was a brewery and a candle plant in 1860. A sugar plant owned by German venture “Zbruch” was built in 1870.
A railway from Kyiv to Lviv and a railway station were built here in 1871. It was the first railroad joining current Western and Eastern Ukraine, and a key transit point for grain export from Galicia to the port city of Odessa. There were no hospitals in Volochysk before the revolution. Only 4 medical attendants, 5 dentists and 4 midwives worked there in 1913. Volochysk was at the front line during World War I.[5]
Though not a big city, Volochysk was a famous place because Volochysk was the "gate" to Ukraine (from the West), the so-called "box of goodies" between Europe and Asia. There were 190 private shops in 1913. 261 students studied in a one-, and a two-year schools, and also in a church school. Among the cultural establishments in Volochysk, there were a club, a cinema, two libraries and three book shops in 1913.
Many armies passed through Volochysk in the period from 1917 to 1920, when Ukraine gained its independence from Russia for a short period of time. They represented different powers:
In November 1920, the army of the fighter for Ukraine's independence Symon Petliura was defeated by the 8th Division of the
From 1923 Volochysk is the administrative centre of Volochyskyi rayon (district). The process of “
The first library for adults opened here in 1934, the library for children was opened in 1937. Local newspaper Prykordonnyi Komunar[clarification needed] was established in 1930. Now it's called Zorya and is still published.
In July 1941
On 17 March 1944 Volochysk was freed by the Soviet Army. Right after that the processes of rebuilding the town started. Most of the plants and factories restored their full functionality by the 1950s.
Great changes came to the town's industrial and socio-cultural development in the 1960s. A canned food plant, a clothes factory, capacitors, brick, metal items, and bread plants were built then. The development of the town also continued in the 1970s. A cheese plant and a machine-building plant were opened then.
As of today the core production in the region consists of portable electric power stations, bricks, metal items, capacitors, canned food, sugar, bread and bun goods, and more than 100 of other consumer products. Volochysk is developing with rapid strides, paying much attention to the service sector and new technologies.
Until 18 July 2020, Volochysk was the administrative center of Volochysk Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Khmelnytskyi Oblast to three. The area of Volochysk Raion was merged into Khmelnytskyi Raion.[7][8]
Economy
- Volochysk engineering factory, a branch of Motor Sich
- Ahrobiznes, agrarian company
- FC Ahrobiznes Volochysk, a professional football club
Notable people
- Rabbi Meïr Löb ben Jehiel Michel Weiser, Malbi"M
- Nadia Meikher
- David Margolis (artist)
- Samuel Mitja Rapoport, biochemist, born in Volochysk
References
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ "Волочисская громада" (in Russian). Портал об'єднаних громад України.
- ^ И. Теодорович., Н. (1899). Историко-статистическое описание церквей и приходов Волынской епархии. ‒ Т. 4: Староконстантиновский уезд (PDF). p. 549.
- ^ a b c Mankovska, R.M. Volochysk (ВОЛОЧИСЬК). Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine
- ISBN 978-3-205-78625-2.)
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: CS1 maint: date and year (link - ^ "YAHAD - IN UNUM". Yahadmap.org.
- ^ "Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ". Голос України (in Ukrainian). 2020-07-18. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
- ^ "Нові райони: карти + склад" (in Ukrainian). Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України.
External links
- Volochisk web site
- Volochysk web site
- Volochysk web site
- Weather in Volochysk. Погода в Волочиську.
- The murder of the Jews of Volochysk during World War II, at Yad Vashem website.
- Woloczyska. Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich(digitized)
- Volochysk, Ukraine at JewishGen