Rozhyshche

Rozhyshche

Rozhyshche

City in Volyn Oblast, Ukraine

Rozhyshche (Ukrainian: Рожи́ще, Polish: Rożyszcze, Yiddish: ראזשישטש Rozhishch) is a city in Volyn Oblast, Ukraine. It serves as an administrative center of Rozhyshche urban hromada. Population: 12,483 (2022 estimate).[1]

Quick Facts Рожи́щеRożyszcze (in Polish), Country ...

History

It was a settlement in Lutsky Uyezd in Volhynian Governorate of the Russian Empire.

During the Second World War Axis forces occupied Rozhyshche in June 1941.

A local newspaper is published here since January 1945.[2]

In January 1989 the population was 14 391 people.[3] Town since August 1989.

  • Transfiguration Domini Kostel (1920)
  • St.Mikhael Church (view from street)
  • St.Mikhael Church (entrance view)
  • World War II Memorial

References

  1. [1]
    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.
  2. [2]
    № 2643. Свет Октября // Летопись периодических и продолжающихся изданий СССР 1986—1990. Часть 2. Газеты. М., «Книжная палата», 1994. стр. 346
  3. [3]
    Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989 г. Численность городского населения союзных республик, их территориальных единиц, городских поселений и городских районов по полу


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