Olevsk(Ukrainian:Олевськ,Polish:Olewsk,Yiddish:אלעווסק) is a city inKorosten Raion,Zhytomyr Oblast,Ukraine.As of January 2022 its population was approximately10,032.[1]
Olevsk
Олевськ | |
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 Downtown Olevsk | |
 Flag  Coat of arms | |
  Olevsk  Olevsk | |
| Coordinates:51°13′N27°39′E/ 51.217°N 27.650°E | |
| Country |  Ukraine |
| Oblast | Zhytomyr Oblast |
| Raion | Korosten Raion |
| Hromada | Olevsk urban hromada |
| Population (2022) | |
• Total | 10,032 |
| Time zone | UTC+2(EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3(EEST) |
History
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Grand Duchy of Lithuania(1488–1569)
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth(1569–1793)
Russian Empire(1793–1917)
Ukrainian People's Republic(1917–1918)- Ukrainian State(1918)
- Ukrainian People's Republic(1918–1919)
Republic of Poland(1919–1920)[citation needed]
Soviet Ukraine(1920–1922)
Soviet Union(1922–1991)
Nazi Germany(1941–1944) (occupation)- Ukraine(1991–present)
Olevsk was first mentioned in 1488. In 1641 Olevsk was grantedMagdeburg city rightsby Polish KingWładysław IV Vasa.
Later it became a town inVolhynian Governorateof theRussian Empire.
DuringWorld War IIon November 15 or 21, 1941, members ofTaras Bulba-Borovets'Ukrainian People's Revolutionary Armycollaborated with the German administration in taking more than 500 Jews from Olevsk toVarvarivka,where they were murdered.[2]
On December 25, 2011, the city council of Olevsk renamed the streets of the city that bore the names of Soviet leaders, naming them in honor of prominent figures of the Ukrainian nationalist and patriotic movement. The streets and lanes named after Pavlo Postyshev, Stanislav Kosior, Hryhoriy Petrovsky, Mykhailo Kalinin, and Hryhoriy Kotovsky were renamed. Instead, they were named after Olena Teliha, Oleh Olzhych, Hetman Vyhovsky, Oleksiy Opanasiuk, Heroes of Kruty, the 20th anniversary of Ukraine's independence, and Yuriy Tiutiunnyk.[3]
Gallery
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Ubort Riverin Olevsk -
Olevsk railway station -
Saint Nicholasmonument -
St. Nicholas Church
References
edit- ^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.
- ^McBride, Jared (July 20, 2016)."Ukrainian Holocaust Perpetrators Are Being Honored in Place of Their Victims".The Tablet.RetrievedJuly 22,2016.
- ^"На Житомирщині перейменували всі радянські назви вулиць".Archived fromthe originalon 20 March 2014.Retrieved4 January2012.
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