Pechenizhyn

Pechenizhyn (Ukrainian: Печені́жин, Polish: Peczeniżyn, Yiddish: פעטשיניזשן‎ Pechinizhn) is an urban-type settlement in Kolomyia Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (province) of Ukraine, 11 kilometres (7 mi) west of Kolomyya. Its population is 5,236 (2020 est.)[1] .

Pechenizhyn
urban-type settlement
Pechenizhyn
Location of Pechenizhyn within Ukraine
Pechenizhyn
Pechenizhyn (Ukraine)
Coordinates: 48.52°N 24.88°E / 48.52; 24.88
Country Ukraine
Oblast (province)Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast
Population
 (2020)
 • Total5,236
Town's coat of arms with Potocki's symbol

History

The settlement is first mentioned in 1443 as a village belonging to Johann Kolia from Deleyiv.[2] During the 15-17th centuries the territory of Pechenizhyn has developed into a separate estate known as Pechenizhyn Klyuch (Pechenizhyn Key) that included seven villages.[2]

Since the 15th century Pechenizhyn was part of Kolomyja County (powiat) in Ruthenian Voivodeship, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, and Stanislawow Voivodeship. In 1890 the Jewish population of the town was 2024.[3]

Monument to Stanislaw Szczepanowski in Lviv.
  • In 1886 the town was connected with Kolomea by the Carpathian Train, also known as a train car as it would go right through a city on a narrow railway.
    • The Polish lawyer, diplomat, and the owner of the local oil refinery Stanislaw Szczepanowski supported the idea of installation of the local railroad system that was proposed by Ludowik Vezhbicki, the head of Lviv-Chernivtsi railroad (see Lviv Railways). He created a concern together with Vienna-based company "M.Biedermann & Co". The construction was conducted by another Vienna firm "Lindheim & Co" under the leadership of engineer Rudolf Matkovski. After the Soviet liberation in 1944 it was utilized by the NKVD forces for deportation of the local population to Siberia.
  • Before World War I on the outskirts of the town there was a palace of Potocki family, the biggest Polish magnates (landowners) in Ukraine.
  • Birthplace of Oleksa Dovbush, the "Ukrainian Robin Hood" in the 18th century,
  • Shtetl in the Kolomyia powiat (administrative district) in 19th and 20th centuries.

Demographics

1913: total population 7000 (4100 Ukrainians (Rusyns), 2300 Jews, 600 Poles)

Notable people
  • Oleksa Dovbush (1700–1745), a peasant insurgent against serfdom
  • Volodymyr Hrabovetskyi (1928–2015), Ukrainian historian, doctor of historical sciences

Pechenezhin Jewish Cemetery fully documented at Jewish Galicia and Bukovina ORG

References
  1. "Чисельність наявного населення України (Actual population of Ukraine)" (PDF) (in Ukrainian). State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
  2. Verbylenko, H.A. Pechenizhyn (ПЕЧЕНІЖИН). Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine.
  3. JewishGen


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