Kosiv

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Kosiv
City
Kosiv
Косiв
Kosiv City Hall.
Kosiv City Hall.
Flag of Kosiv
Flag
Official seal of Kosiv
Seal
Kosiv is located in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast
Kosiv
Kosiv
Location of Kosiv in Ukraine
Coordinates: 48°18′54″N 25°05′43″E / 48.31500°N 25.09528°E / 48.31500; 25.09528Coordinates: 48°18′54″N 25°05′43″E / 48.31500°N 25.09528°E / 48.31500; 25.09528
Country Ukraine
Oblast (province)Ivano-Frankivsk
Raion (district)Kosivsky Raion
Population
 (2021)
 • Total8,463
Websitehttps://kosivmr.if.ua

Kosiv (Ukrainian: Косiв) is a city located in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, in western Ukraine. It is the administrative center of Kosiv Raion (district). Kosiv hosts the administration of , one of the hromadas of Ukraine.[1] Population: 8,463 (2021 est.)[2].

Names[]

Ukrainian: Косiв, German: Kossow,[3] Polish: Kosów, Romanian: Cosău, Yiddish: קאסאוו‎. From 1918 to 1945, the town, which at that time was part of the Second Polish Republic, was officially called Kosów Huculski.

History[]

Kosiv main square

Initially, a small Hutsul settlement with the remnants of a small castle destroyed by the Turks, Kosiv was founded on the Rybnica River. The first written mention of it is in the Grant Charter of Lithuanian Duke Svitrigaila, on September 31, 1424. At that time, the village was in the territory of what is today Old Kosiv. In 1565, not far from modern-day Kosiv, Starosta of Sniatyn, Tenczynski founded a town named Rukiv (Polish: Rukow). Polish Crown Hetman Jerzy Jazlowiecki, the owner of Kuty, later destroyed it. Some years later, the town was recovered and named Kosiv (the earlier village of this name thus became Old Kosiv). Until 1772, Kosiv/Kosów was under Polish control.

As a result of the first of Partitions of Poland (Treaty of St. Petersburg dated 5 July 1772), Kosiv was attributed to the Habsburg Empire, as part of Austrian Galicia.

Under Austrian Galicia province, the name was KOSSOW

Since 1867, Kosiv was the administrative center of the Kossow Bezirkshauptmannschaft (Austrian name of the district). In 1919, after the Great War, the area returned to Poland and was turned into a powiat seat within the Stanisławów Voivodship. In the Second Polish Republic, Kosów emerged as one of the most popular spas. The Kosów spa was founded in 1891 by doctor . Here, in 1911, one of the first units of the Polish Scouting and Guiding Association was created by Kazimierz and Witold Lutosławski, and Olga Drohnowska. Kosów Huculski, as it was called, attracted top names of the interbellum Poland. The spa was visited, among others, by Roman Dmowski, Ignacy Daszynski, Wojciech Korfanty, Gabriela Zapolska, Juliusz Osterwa, Maria Dabrowska, Melchior Wankowicz, Xawery Dunikowski, Karol Adwentowicz, Leon Schiller, Stanisław Dygat, Jozef Pankiewicz, and Lucjan Rydel.

In 1939, Kosów Huculski became part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) as a result of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact and the Invasion of Poland. Here, in September 1939, the government of Poland crossed the Romanian border. Despite this pact, Kosiv was occupied by Nazi Germany from July 1, 1941 until April 2, 1944. After that time it was, again, a member of the Soviet Union, until the independence of Ukraine in 1991.

At the beginning of World War II, around 3700 Jews lived in Kosiv. In October, 1941, the German security police, leading on Pidzamche street to the so-called "Town Mountain", rounded up and shot more than 2000 Jews, burring them in mass grave. In April 1942, the authorities forced 1000 Jews to move to Kolomyja, though some returned to Kosiv. In September, most of the remaining Jews in Kosiv were rounded up. Some were shot in Kosiv, 500 were sent to prison, and the rest sent to Kolomyja and from there to Belzec where they were immediately murdered. In October and November, the Jews left behind and in hiding were murdered in Kosiv. About 100 Kosiv Jews survived, some hiding with sympathetic local inhabitants, others by fleeing the area.[4][5]

Location[]

Local orientation
Regional orientation

Today, the town of Kosiv borders on the towns and villages of Babyn, Horod, Smodna, Cherhanivka, Staryi Kosiv, Verbovets and Pistyn. The distance from the railroad station in Vizhnytsa is 12 kilometers, from Zabolotiv is 25 kilometers and from Kolomyia — 35 kilometers. Roads with all neighbouring districts connect the city. The total length of roads is 362 kilometers. 160 kilometers of these roads are paved.

People[]

  • - sculptor
  • - ukrainian opera singer
  • - ukrainian actor, director
  • -master wood carver
  • Menachem Mendel Hager - Hasidic rebbe
  • - ukrainian composer
  • - painter, master wood carver
  • Bogdana Matsotska — Ukrainian Olympic skier
  • Volodymyr Kovalyuk — professional Ukrainian soccer player
  • – Polish scientist, deputy mayor of Kraków, deputy to the Sejm in 1961 – 1965
  • – Polish architect
  • – Polish chemist
  • – Ukrainian designer

See also[]

  • Kosovo for places with similar names.
  • Kosov for places with similar names.

Kosovo

References[]

  1. ^ "Косовская городская громада" (in Russian). Портал об'єднаних громад України.
  2. ^ "Чисельність наявного населення України (Actual population of Ukraine)" (PDF) (in Ukrainian). State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Retrieved 11 July 2021.
  3. ^ Handbook of Austria and Lombardy-Venetia Cancellations on the Postage Stamp Issues 1850–1864, by Edwin MUELLER, 1961, KOSSOW errichtet 1850.
  4. ^ [1][dead link]
  5. ^ Megargee, Geoffrey (2012). Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos. Bloomington, Indiana: University of Indiana Press. p. Volume II, 797-798. ISBN 978-0-253-35599-7.

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