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Pechenizhyn

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Country
  
Ukraine

Area
  
40.25 km²

Population
  
5,313 (2016)

Oblast (province)
  
Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast

Local time
  
Saturday 4:35 PM

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Weather
  
10°C, Wind NW at 13 km/h, 40% Humidity

Pechenizhyn (Ukrainian: Печеніжин, 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. It population is 5,313 (2016 est.).

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Map of Pechenizhyn, Ivano-Frankivska, Ukraine

Until World War I Pechenizhyn was in Kolomyja Powiat, Galicia (in the Austrian Empire). Between the two World Wars it was in Stanislawow Province, Poland. In 1890 the Jewish population of the town was 2024.

Historical Facts

  • 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)

    References

    Pechenizhyn Wikipedia
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