Yavoriv
Yavoriv
Яворів Jaworów | |
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UTC+3 (EEST) | |
Postal code | 81000 |
Area code | +380-3259 |
Yavoriv (
Not far from it is the watering-place of
History
The town was first mentioned in written documents in 1436. It received
Until the
In the immediate post-
During the invasion of Poland, on 14-16 September 1939, Poles defeated invading Germans in the Battle of Jaworów. Despite the victory, the town soon fell to the Soviets, and was under Soviet occupation from 1939 to 1941, and then under German occupation until 1944.
The Jewish population before the German occupation on 26 June 1941 was around 3000.[
In 1944 the town was re-occupied by the Soviets, and in 1945 it was eventually annexed from Poland by the Soviet Union.
After the war, the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission reported that more than 4900 people, most of them Jews, had been killed in Yavoriv, in addition to those sent to Bełżec. Only about 20 of the town's Jews were thought to have survived.[8]
On 27 May 1947 the UPA blew up the statue of Lenin.[9]
In the decades between the 1960s and 1990s the town was a
On 10 December 1991 after the dissolution of the Soviet Union it became part of Ukraine.
On 13 March 2022, during the
Population
Year | Pop. | ±% |
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1921 | 8,910 | — |
1931 | 10,690 | +20.0% |
2022 | 12,785 | +19.6% |
Source: [15] |
Language
Distribution of the population by native language according to the 2001 census:[16]
Language | Number | Percentage |
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Ukrainian | 12 880 | 96.95% |
Russian | 358 | 2.69% |
Other or undecided | 47 | 0.36% |
Total | 13 285 | 100.00 % |
Notable people
Among notable people born here are
Gallery
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Lvivska Street in Yavoriv
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Saints Peter and Paul church
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People's House
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Town center
International relations
Twin towns — Sister cities
Yavoriv is
City | Country | Year |
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Jarosław | Poland | 2006 |
Węgorzewo | Poland | |
Lubaczów | Poland | |
Havant | United Kingdom | |
Trakai | Lithuania |
See also
- Battle of Jaworow
References
- ^ "Яворовская городская громада" (in Russian). Портал об'єднаних громад України.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b c public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Jaworów". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 15 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 294. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
- ^ "11 czerwca 1675 roku król Polski Jan III Sobieski i ambasador króla Francji Ludwika XIV podpisali tajny traktat w Jaworowie". Historykon (in Polish). Retrieved 25 October 2020.
- ^ Żygulski jun., Zdzisław (1994). Odsiecz Wiednia 1683 (in Polish). Kraków: Krajowa Agencja Wydawnicza. p. 60.
- ISBN 978-83-62235-88-9.
- ^ "Yahad - in Unum".
- ISBN 978-0-253-35599-7.
- OCLC 838973434
- ^ OCLC 189428719
- ^ Hugo Bachega (13 March 2022), Ukraine war: 'Sky turned red' as missiles hit Lviv military base, Yavoriv, Ukraine: BBC News
- ^ Luke Harding; Peter Beaumont; Lorenzo Tondo (13 March 2022), "Russia targets Ukrainian military base near Polish border in escalation", The Guardian, Yavoriv & Lviv
- ^ Hubert Ossowski (13 March 2022), Rakiety spadły przy polskiej granicy. Zaatakowano poligon w Jaworowie (in Polish), Wirtualna Polska
- ^ PAP (13 March 2022), Atak na poligon koło Lwowa był słyszalny w Polsce (in Polish), Rzeszów: onet.pl
- ^ Wiadomości Statystyczne Głównego Urzędu Statystycznego (in Polish). Vol. X. Warszawa: Główny Urząd Statystyczny. 1932. p. 141.
- ^ "Рідні мови в об'єднаних територіальних громадах України" (in Ukrainian).
- ^ "David Altschuler", Wikipedia, 2021-12-18, retrieved 2022-03-02
- ^ "ALTSCHUL, ALTSCHULER, ALTSCHUELER - JewishEncyclopedia.com". www.jewishencyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2022-03-02.