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Country
  
Ukraine

District
  
Skole Raion

Elevation/(average value of)
  
380 m (1,250 ft)

Province
  
Lviv Oblast

Established
  
1561

Time zone
  
EET (UTC+2)

Verkhnie Synovydne

Verkhnie Synovydne (Ukrainian: Ве́рхнє Синьови́дне, former name, to the 1946 – Ukrainian: Синьовидсько Вижнє) is an urban-type settlements in Skole Raion, Lviv Oblast, of Western Ukraine. Verkhnie Synovydne granted the status of urban-type settlement in 1957.

The settlement is located along the river Opir River. It is situated 100 kilometres (62 mi) from the regional center Lviv, 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) from the district center Skole and is located along the Highway M06 (Ukraine) (). It is a Ukrainian international highway (M-highway) connecting Kiev to the Hungarian border near Chop, where it connects to the Hungarian Highway M34.
Its total area is 3.62 km2, and the population is around 3348 people. Local government is administered by Verkhnosynovydnenska settlement council.

The first written record of its mention dates from 1561. But archaeological studies indicate that in this location people lived in the days of Kievan Rus and Principality of Galicia–Volhynia. That are approximately the year 1240.

Literature

  • Ukrainian: Історія міст і сіл УРСР : Львівська область. – К. : ГРУРЕ, 1968 р., сторінка 715
  • References

    Verkhnie Synovydne Wikipedia