Chortkiv

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Chortkiv
Чортків
City of regional significance
St. Stanislaus Church
St. Stanislaus Church
Flag of Chortkiv
Flag
Coat of arms of Chortkiv
Coat of arms
Chortkiv is located in Ternopil Oblast
Chortkiv
Chortkiv
Location of Chortkiv in Ukraine
Coordinates: 49°00′27″N 25°47′26″E / 49.00750°N 25.79056°E / 49.00750; 25.79056Coordinates: 49°00′27″N 25°47′26″E / 49.00750°N 25.79056°E / 49.00750; 25.79056
Country Ukraine
Oblast Ternopil Oblast
RaionChortkiv Raion
Magdeburg rights1533
City status1939[1]
Government
 • City MayorVolodymyr Shmatko
Area
 • Total30 km2 (10 sq mi)
Elevation
[2]
218 m (715 ft)
Population
 (2020)
 • Total28 686
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code
48500—48509
Area code+380 3552
Website[1]

Chortkiv (Ukrainian: Чортків; Polish: Czortków; Yiddish: טשאָרטקאָוו‎‎ Chortkov) is a city in Chortkiv Raion, Ternopil Oblast (province) in western Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Chortkiv Raion (district), housing the district's local administration buildings. Chortkiv hosts the administration of , one of the hromadas of Ukraine.[3] Population: 28,686 (2020 est.)[4]

Chortkiv is located in the northern part of the historic region of Galician Podolia on the banks of the Seret River.[1][5]

In the past Chortkiv was the home of many Hasidic Jews; it was a notable shtetl and had a significant number of Jews residing there prior to the Holocaust. Today, Chortkiv is a regional commercial and small-scale manufacturing center.[5] Among its architectural monuments is a fortress built in the 16th and 17th centuries[6] as well as historic wooden churches of the 17th and 18th centuries.[7]

History[]

The first historical mention of Chortkiv dates to 1522,[1] when Polish King Sigismund I the Old granted an ownership order for over the town and allowed him to name it after himself—Czortków.[7] The small community, numbering at 50 families, were almost all massacred during the Chmielnicki Uprisings of 1648–9. Jewish leadership opposed the resettlement of Jews in Chortkiv until 1705.[8] During that time, the town was also granted Magdeburg rights.[5] However, Chortkiv would later decline in the second half of the 17th century during Ottoman Expansion of central Europe. The town was taken over by Ottoman Empire,[5] whose rule lasted 27 years. It was part of the short-lived Turkish Podolia Eyalet, which lasted from 1672 to 1699. During this period, it was nahiya centre in Yazlofça sanjak as Çortkuv (Spelled as Chortkoov in Turkish).[9] After First Partition of Poland Chortkiv came under Austro-Hungarian rule which lasted from 1772 to 1918, during the time of which it was the center of the Chortkiv Bezirk except brief Russian rule between 1809 and 1815 as part of Tarnopol Governorate. On June 8, 1919 the Ukrainian Galician Army broke for couple months through the Polish front at Chortkiv and began the Chortkiv offensive.[5] Soon afterwards, the town was seized by the Poles. It was ceded to sovereign Poland in the Peace Treaty of Riga between Poland, Soviet Russia (acting also on behalf of Soviet Belarus) and Soviet Ukraine, and remained part of the Tarnopol Voivodeship of the Second Polish Republic until the Soviet invasion of Poland in September 1939.

In 1931, the town had 19,000 inhabitants, 46.4 percent of whom were Polish Roman Catholics, 30 percent of whom were Ukrainian and Polish Jews, and 22.8 percent of whom were Ukrainian Greek Catholics.

Chortkiv was an important garrison of the Polish Border Defence Corps Brigade "Podole", whose commandant from 1935 to 1938 was General Stefan Rowecki. Furthermore, it was home to the 36th Reserve Infantry Division.

The town was annexed by the Soviet Union from September 17, 1939 until June 1941. Its Polish inhabitants, particularly students of the local high school, organized a failed uprising in January 1940,[10] which would serve as the first Polish uprising of World War II. From 1941-1944 it was annexed to Nazi Germany. After the defeat of the Nazis by the Red Army in 1944, the town returned to Soviet control until in 1991 it became part of independent Ukraine. The Jewish residents were persecuted and deported as part of the Holocaust. The surviving Polish residents of the town were transferred to the Recovered Territories in the immediate postwar period (see Polish population transfers (1944–1946)).

Due to heavy destruction of Ternopil, in 1944 Chortkiv served as a regional seat.[11]

In January 1989 the population was 26 681 people.[12][1]

In January 2013 the population was 29 640 people.[13]

Until 18 July 2020, Chortkiv was designated as a city of oblast significance and did not belong to Chortkiv Raion even though it was the center of the raion. As part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Ternopil Oblast to three, the city was merged into Chortkiv Raion.[14][15]

Climate[]

hideClimate data for Chortkiv (1981–2010)
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Average high °C (°F) −0.7
(30.7) 		0.9
(33.6) 		6.0
(42.8) 		13.9
(57.0) 		20.1
(68.2) 		22.6
(72.7) 		24.7
(76.5) 		24.2
(75.6) 		18.9
(66.0) 		12.9
(55.2) 		5.3
(41.5) 		0.2
(32.4) 		12.4
(54.3)
Daily mean °C (°F) −3.5
(25.7) 		−2.5
(27.5) 		1.8
(35.2) 		8.5
(47.3) 		14.3
(57.7) 		17.1
(62.8) 		19.0
(66.2) 		18.3
(64.9) 		13.5
(56.3) 		8.2
(46.8) 		2.2
(36.0) 		−2.4
(27.7) 		7.9
(46.2)
Average low °C (°F) −6.1
(21.0) 		−5.3
(22.5) 		−1.6
(29.1) 		4.0
(39.2) 		9.2
(48.6) 		12.3
(54.1) 		14.1
(57.4) 		13.4
(56.1) 		9.1
(48.4) 		4.5
(40.1) 		−0.3
(31.5) 		−4.8
(23.4) 		4.0
(39.2)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 31.3
(1.23) 		39.1
(1.54) 		35.7
(1.41) 		47.8
(1.88) 		80.7
(3.18) 		90.3
(3.56) 		92.0
(3.62) 		72.8
(2.87) 		59.9
(2.36) 		37.4
(1.47) 		37.8
(1.49) 		39.0
(1.54) 		663.8
(26.13)
Average precipitation days (≥ 1.0 mm) 7.8 8.4 8.6 8.4 10.0 10.1 10.2 8.6 8.3 6.9 8.0 9.4 104.7
Average relative humidity (%) 84.1 81.6 76.5 68.2 67.7 72.5 73.0 73.9 77.4 80.2 85.2 86.4 77.2
Source: World Meteorological Organization[16]


People from Chortkiv[]

  • (1881–1919), Ukrainian actress and singer
  • Maria Maciyivska (born 1918), first soprano Leeds Church Toronto, Ontario 1954 - 2008.
  • Sacha Blonder ( [fr]) (1909-1949), Ecole de Paris painter
  • - Polish engineer and pilot, pioneer of Polish gliding,
  • Jerzy Czortkowski, founder of Chortkiv
  • Pinchas Horowitz (1731–1805), rabbi and Talmudist
  • Jerzy Janicki (1928-2007) – Polish writer and reporter,
  • (born 1928) - Polish painter,
  • (1933-2005) – academic of the Katowice Silesian University, expert on Polish literature,
  • (born 1939) - Polish scientist, physicist,
  • - major of the Polish Army, doctor and professor of Medicine Academy of Lwow,
  • Tadeusz Wazewski (1896-1972) – Polish scholar, mathematician, professor of Jagiellonian University,
  • Shmelke of Nikolsburg (1746–1778), one of the great early Chasidic Rebbes
  • Karl Emil Franzos (1848–1904), Austrian novelist
  • (1906–1973), Ukrainian painter
  • Perla (Penina) Richter Feldschu (1900-1943), Warsaw musicologist, wife of Zionist activist Ruben Feldschu (Ben Shem)[17]
  • Bernard (Berl) Hausner (1874-1938) father of Gideon Hausner. Gideon was the Prosecutor of Adolf Eichmann, and Attorney General of Israel. Bernard was a Rabbi in Lemberg, Polish consul to Palestine, and Zionist. Migrated to Israel in 1927.

Gallery[]

  • Town hall

  • City hall

  • Assumption Church in Chortkiv

  • Historic county court building

  • Ruins of Chortkiv Castle and Regimental Church

  • St. Stanislaus Church

  • Hasidic synagogue of Chortkiv

  • Railway station

  • Chortkiv House of Culture

  • City centre and the old Town Hall in Chortkiv

  • Football Match at Stadium in the city Chortkiv, 1938

  • Peter and Paul Cathedral

See also[]

References[]

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8. Czortk��w KehilaLinks Site - JewishGen http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/Suchostaw/sl_czortkow.htm

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