Variazh

Variazh
Варяж
Village

Panorama of Variazh with the St. Mark's Church seen in the distance.

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Variazh
Coordinates: UA 50°31′01″N 24°05′33″E / 50.51694°N 24.09250°E / 50.51694; 24.09250Coordinates: UA 50°31′01″N 24°05′33″E / 50.51694°N 24.09250°E / 50.51694; 24.09250
Country  Ukraine
Province  Lviv Oblast
District Sokal Raion
First mentioned 1419
Magdeburg rights 1538
Government
 • Village Head Yuriy Horodko (NRU)
Area
 • Total 2.17 km2 (0.84 sq mi)
Elevation[1] 202 m (663 ft)
Population (2001)
 • Total 888
 • Density 410/km2 (1,100/sq mi)
Time zone EET (UTC+2)
 • Summer (DST) EEST (UTC+3)
Postal code 80014
Area code +380 3257
Website http://rada.gov.ua/

Variazh (Ukrainian: Варяж; Polish: Waręż) is a former city (currently a village) in the Sokal Raion (district) of Lviv Oblast (province) in western Ukraine. Its population is 888 as of the 2001 Ukrainian Census.[2] The village is located close to the border with Poland, near the Polish village of Uśmierz.[3]

The first written documents date the settlement back to in 1419 as Waręż.[3] In 1538, the settlement was granted the Magdeburg rights.[3][4] Waręż had a significant population of Jews living in the city: in 1880, there were 880 Jews; in 1900, there were 964 Jews; in 1921, there were 520 Jews. During the Holocaust, Waręż's entire Jewish population was killed.[5]

Until the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939, Waręż was a part of the Polish Lwów Voivodeship (Sokal County) and – since 1934 – seat of the Gmina Waręż, a rural administrative district of Poland[6] (Waręż does not appear on lists of towns since at least 1931,[7][8][9] and prior to this it only had market town status (miasteczko), which was considered a rural unit in an administrative sense[10]).

During the war, the settlement became a part of the Hrubieszów County,[11] which after the war returned to the Lublin Voivodeship. During the 1951 Polish–Soviet territorial exchange, Waręż along with most of the pre-war Sokal County was transferred from the People's Republic of Poland to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.[12] There, the settlement was renamed to Novoukrainka (Ukrainian: Новоукраїнка),[2] a name which it kept until 1989 when it was reverted to its original—albeit Ukrainian variant of the name, "Variazh."

People from Variazh

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Variazh (Lviv Oblast, Sokal Raion)". weather.in.ua. Retrieved 15 February 2012.
  2. 1 2 "Variazh, Lviv Oblast, Sokal Raion". Regions of Ukraine and their Structure (in Ukrainian). Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Retrieved 15 February 2012.
  3. 1 2 3 "Variazh". karpaty.info (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 16 February 2012.
  4. ↑ "Variazh". Architectural and Natural Monuments of Ukraine (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 16 February 2012.
  5. ↑ "Variazh". Russian Jewish Encyclopedia (in Russian). Retrieved 16 February 2012.
  6. ↑ Dz. U. z 1934 r. Nr 64, poz. 554 - Rozporządzenie Ministra Spraw Wewnętrznych z dnia 14 lipca 1934 r. o podziale powiatu sokalskiego w województwie lwowskiem na gminy wiejskie
  7. ↑ Drugi Powszechny Spis Ludności z dnia 9 grudnia 1931 r., GUS, Warszawa, 1932
  8. ↑ Podział administracyjny Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej: Praca zespołowa pod redakcją prof. Stanisława Srokowskiego. Warszawa: Biblioteka Samorządowca Nr 77, 1948.
  9. ↑ Informator adresowy miast i gmin wiejskich Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej. Warszawa: Instytut Wydawniczy Kolumna, 1948.
  10. ↑ Skorowidz miejscowości Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej - Tom XIII - Województwo Lwowskie, Główny Urząd Statystyczny Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej, Warszawa 1924
  11. ↑ Amtliches Gemeinde- und Dorfverzeichnis fuer das GG
  12. ↑ Sylwester Fertacz, Krojenie mapy Polski: Bolesna granica. Alfa. Retrieved from the Internet Archive on 14 November 2011

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