Rivne ( ; , ) is a

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in western

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. The city is the

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of Rivne Oblast (

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), as well as the Rivne Raion (

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) within the oblast.On bringing the name of Rovno city and Rovno Oblast in accordance to rules of Ukrainian spelling
.

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. 11 June 1991 It has a population of In the spring of 1919, it also served as a provisional seat of the Ukrainian government throughout the ongoing war with Soviet Russia. Between

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and

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, the city was located in

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as a district-level (county) seat in Wolyn Voivodeship. At the start of World War II in 1939, Rivne was occupied by the Soviet Red Army and received its current status by becoming a seat of regional government of the Rivne Oblast which was created out of the eastern portion of the voivodeship. During the German occupation of 1941–44 the city was designated as a capital of German Ukraine ( Reichskommissariat Ukraine). Rivne is an important transportation hub, with the international Rivne Airport, and rail links to Zdolbuniv, Sarny, and Kovel, as well as highways linking it with Brest,

Kyiv Kyiv, also Kiev, is the capital and most populous List of cities in Ukraine, city of Ukraine. Located in the north-central part of the country, it straddles both sides of the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2022, its population was 2, ...

and

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. Among other leading companies there is a chemical factory of Rivne-Azot (part of Ostchem Holding).

Names

* , also the former spelling in Ukrainian until 1991 * *

History

Middle Ages

Rivne was first mentioned in 1283 in the Polish annals ''Rocznik kapituły krakowskiej''Bovhyria, A.
Rivne (РІВНЕ)
''. ''Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine''.History of Rivne (Історія Рівне)
. Ukraine-in portal. as one of the inhabited places of Halych-Volhynia near which Leszek II the Black was victorious over a part of the Grand Ducal Lithuanian Army. Following the

Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia The Principality or, from 1253, Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia, also known as the Kingdom of Ruthenia, Kingdom of Rus', or Kingdom of Russia, also Halych–Volhynian Kingdom was a medieval state in Eastern Europe which existed from 1199 to 1349. I ...

's partition after

Galicia–Volhynia Wars The Galicia–Volhynia Wars were several wars fought in the years 1340–1392 over the succession in the Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia, also known as Ruthenia. After Yuri II Boleslav was poisoned by local Ruthenian nobles in 1340, both the Gran ...

in the late 14th century, it was under the rule of

Grand Duchy of Lithuania The Grand Duchy of Lithuania was a sovereign state in northeastern Europe that existed from the 13th century, succeeding the Kingdom of Lithuania, to the late 18th century, when the territory was suppressed during the 1795 Partitions of Poland, ...

and in 1434 the

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Švitrigaila Švitrigaila (before 1370 – 10 February 1452; sometimes spelled Svidrigiello) was the Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1430 to 1432. He spent most of his life in largely unsuccessful dynastic struggles against his cousins Vytautas and Sigismund K� ...

awarded the settlement to a

Lutsk Lutsk (, ; see #Names and etymology, below for other names) is a city on the Styr River in northwestern Ukraine. It is the administrative center of Volyn Oblast and the administrative center of Lutsk Raion within the oblast. Lutsk has a populati ...

nobleman Dychko. In 1461 Dychko sold his settlement to Prince Semen Nesvizh. In 1479 Semen Nesvizh died and his settlement was passed to his wife Maria who started to call herself princess of Rivne. She turned the settlement into a princely residence by building in 1481 a castle on one of local river islands and managed to obtain

Magdeburg rights Magdeburg rights (, , ; also called Magdeburg Law) were a set of town privileges first developed by Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (936–973) and based on the Flemish Law, which regulated the degree of internal autonomy within cities and villages gr ...

for the settlement in 1492 from the King of Poland Casimir IV Jagiellon. Following her death in 1518, the city was passed on to the princes of Ostrog and declined by losing its status as a princely residency. In 1566 the town of Rivne became part of newly established Volhynian Voivodeship. Following the

Union of Lublin The Union of Lublin (; ) was signed on 1 July 1569 in Lublin, Poland, and created a single state, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, one of the largest countries in Europe at the time. It replaced the personal union of the Crown of the Kingd ...

in 1569, it was transferred from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania to the

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. The city had a status of a private town held by nobles (

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and Lubomirski families). Following the

Second Partition of Poland The 1793 Second Partition of Poland was the second of partitions of Poland, three partitions (or partial annexations) that ended the existence of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth by 1795. The second partition (politics), partition occurred i ...

in 1793 Rivne became a part of the

Russian Empire The Russian Empire was an empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its establishment in November 1721 until the proclamation of the Russian Republic in September 1917. At its height in the late 19th century, it covered about , roughl ...

, and in 1797 it was declared to be a county level ( uyezd) town of the

Volhynian Governorate Volhynia Governorate, also known as Volyn Governorate, was an administrative-territorial unit (''guberniya'') of the Southwestern Krai of the Russian Empire. It consisted of an area of and a population of 2,989,482 inhabitants. The governorate ...

World War I

During

and the period of chaos shortly after, it was briefly under German, Ukrainian, Bolshevik, and Polish rule. During April–May 1919 Rivne served as the temporary capital of the Ukrainian People's Republic. In late April 1919 one of the Ukrainian military leaders Volodymyr Oskilko attempted to organize a ''coup-d'état'' against the Directorate led by Symon Petliura and the cabinet of Borys Martos and replace them with

Yevhen Petrushevych Yevhen Omelianovych Petrushevych (; 3 June 1863 – 29 August 1940) was a Ukrainians, Ukrainian lawyer, politician, and President (government title), president of the West Ukrainian People's Republic formed after the collapse of the Austro-Hung ...

as president of Ukraine. In Rivne, Oskilko managed to arrest most of the cabinet ministers including Martos himself, but Petliura at that time was in neighboring Zdolbuniv and managed to stop Oskilko's efforts. At the conclusion of the conflict, in accordance with the Riga Peace Treaty of 1921, it became a part of Polish Volhynian Voivodeship, a situation which would last until the Second World War. Before World War II, Rivne (Równe) was a mainly Jewish-Polish city (Jews constituted about 50% of the city's population, and Poles 35%).

World War II

In 1939, as a result of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact and the partition of Poland, Rivne was occupied by the Soviet Union. Starting December of that year Rivne became the center of the newly established Rivne Oblast in the

Ukrainian SSR The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, abbreviated as the Ukrainian SSR, UkrSSR, and also known as Soviet Ukraine or just Ukraine, was one of the Republics of the Soviet Union, constituent republics of the Soviet Union from 1922 until 1991. ...

. On 28 June 1941 Rivne was invaded by the 6th army of

Nazi Germany Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German Reich, German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a Totalit ...

. On 20 August, the Nazis declared it the administrative center of Reichskommissariat Ukraine. A

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prison opened on Belaia Street. Roughly half of Rivne's inhabitants were Jewish. On 6–8 November, 17,500 Jewish adults from Rivne were shot to death or thrown alive into a large pit in a pine grove in Sosenki, a nearby wooded area (sometimes referred to as Sosenki Forest), and 6,000 Jewish children suffered the same fate at a nearby site. From 8-13 November German actor Olaf Bach was flown to the city to perform for the German forces. The city's remaining Jews were sent to Rivne Ghetto. In July 1942, they were sent north to Kostopil and shot to death. On 2 February 1944, the city was captured by the

Red Army The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Republic and, from 1922, the Soviet Union. The army was established in January 1918 by a decree of the Council of People ...

in the Battle of Rivne, and remained under Soviet control until Ukraine regained its independence on the break-up of the USSR in 1991. Poles from Rivne were deported to Poland's new borders after 1945.

Post-war era

In 1958, a TV tower began broadcasting in the city; in 1969, the first trolley ran through the city; in 1969, Rivne airport opened. In 1983, the city celebrated its 700th anniversary. On 11 June 1991, the

officially renamed the city Rivne according to the rules of Ukrainian orthography. It had previously been known as Rovno. In 1992, a memorial complex was established at the site of the World War II massacre to commemorate the 17,500 Jews murdered there in November 1941 during

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, marking the mass grave with an obelisk inscribed in

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and Ukrainian. On 6 June 2012, the World War II Jewish burial site was vandalised, as part of an antisemitic attack.

Russo-Ukrainian War

On 14 March 2022, Rivne TV Tower has experienced heavy missile attack by Russian troops. The tower was damaged and an administrative room was destroyed. As a result of attack 20 people were killed and nine injured.

Population

Ethnic groups

Distribution of the population by ethnicity according to the 2001 Ukrainian census:

Language

Distribution of the population by native language according to the 2001 census: According to a survey conducted by the International Republican Institute in April–May 2023, 96% of the city's population spoke Ukrainian at home, and 3% spoke Russian.

Geography

Climate

Rivne has a moderate

continental climate Continental climates often have a significant annual variation in temperature (warm to hot summers and cold winters). They tend to occur in central and eastern parts of the three northern-tier continents (North America, Europe, and Asia), typi ...

with cold, snowy winters and warm summers. Snow cover usually lasts from November until March. The average annual precipitation is June and July being the wettest months and January and February the driest.

Industry

During

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times the provincial town was transformed into an industrial center of the republic. There were two significant factories built. The first was a machine building and metal processing factory capable of producing high-voltage apparatus, tractor spare parts and others. The other was a chemical factory and synthetic materials fabrication plant. Light industry, including a linen plant and a textile mill, as well as food industries, including milk and meat processing plants and a vegetable preservation plant, have also been built. In addition the city became a production center for furniture and other building materials.

Landmarks

As an important cultural center, Rivne hosts a humanities and a hydro-engineering university, as well as a faculty of the Kyiv State Institute of Culture, and medical and musical as well as automobile-construction, commercial, textile, agricultural and cooperative polytechnic colleges. The city has a historical museum. Following the

fall of the Soviet Union The Soviet Union was formally dissolved as a sovereign state and subject of international law on 26 December 1991 by Declaration No. 142-N of the Soviet of Nationalities, Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. :s: ...

, the monument for the Soviet hero

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was removed, and the Nikolai Kuznetsov monument was moved to another location within the city. Instead, in order to reflect the controversial history of the region the monuments for "People who died in the honor of Ukraine", and "Soldiers who died in local military battles" were installed.

Buildings

*Church of the Assumption (1756) *Cathedral of the Intercession (2001) *Cathedral of the Ascension (1890) *A classicism-style gymnasium building (1839) *During Soviet times the center of the city from Lenin street to Peace Avenue (1963 architects R.D. Vais and O.I. Filipchuk) was completely rebuilt with Administrative and Public buildings in neo-classical, Stalinist style.

Memorials

The following memorials are found in Rivne: *Monument to the 25th Anniversary of the Liberation of Rivne from the Fascists, Mlynivs'ke Highway *Monument to the Victims of Fascism, Bila Street Square (1968, by A.I. Pirozhenko and B.V. Rychkov, architect-V.M.Gerasimenko) *Bust on the Tomb of Partisan M. Strutyns'ka and Relief on the Tomb of Citizens S. Yelentsia and S. Kotiyevs'koho, Kniazia Volodymyra Street, Hrabnyk Cemetery *Monument to the Perished of Ukraine, Magdeburz'koho Prava Plaza *Communal Grave of Warriors, Soborna Street *Monument of Eternal Glory, Kyivs'ka Street *Monument to

Taras Shevchenko Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko (; ; 9 March 1814 – 10 March 1861) was a Ukrainian poet, writer, artist, public and political figure, folklorist, and ethnographer. He was a fellow of the Imperial Academy of Arts and a member of the Brotherhood o ...

, T.G. Shevchenko Park; Statue on Nezalezhnosti Plaza *Memorial to Warriors' Glory, Dubens'ka Street, Rivne Military Cemetery (1975, by M.L. Farina, architect-N.A. Dolgansky) *Monument to the Warrior and the Partisan, Peremohy Plaza (1948 by I.Ya. Matveenko) *Monument to Colonel Klym Savura, Commander of the Ukrainian People's Army, Soborna Street *Monument to Symon Petliura, Symon Petliura Street *Monument to N.I. Kuznetsov (bronze and granite, 1961 by V.P Vinaikin) *Monument to the Jewish Victims of the Holocaust - mass grave site (ca. 1991)
The memorial was desecrated on June 8, 2012, by breaking parts of it and spraying swastikas. The teenagers in charge of the antisemitic action were caught and trialed. *Monument to the victims of the

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, Simon Petliura Street *Statue and Plaza dedicated to Maria Rivnens'ka, Soborna Street

Popular culture references

*In his memoir '' A Tale of Love and Darkness'', Israeli author Amos Oz describes Rivne through the memories of his mother and her family, who grew up in the city before emigrating to Israel in the 1930s.Oz, Amos, 2004, '' A Tale of Love and Darkness'', pp. 132-190. *Rivne was mentioned several times in ''The Tale of the Nightly Neighbors'', a 1992 episode of the Canadian-American TV show ''

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'', being referred to by a variation of its pre-1991 name (either Ravno or Rovno). *In

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's operetta

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, the character of The Old Lady sings an aria "I am easily assimilated", in which she refers to her father having been born in Rovno Gubernya

Sport

Rugby

* RC Rivne (1999)

Speedway

The Rivne Speedway Stadium hosts the speedway club Rivne Speedway. The stadium opened on 24 May 1959. The venue has hosted significant speedway events including a qualifying round of the Speedway World Championship in 1962. and 1991.

Notable people

Anna Walentynowicz with Paula Dobriansky cropped

* Anna Belfer-Cohen (born 1949),

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i archaeologist and paleoanthropologist * Dahn Ben-Amotz (1924–1989), Israeli radio broadcaster, journalist, playwright and author *Ancestors of

(1918–1990), the American composer include his father, Samuel, who was born in Berezdiv and his mother, Jennie, born in Sheptevoka in the Rovno region. In Bernstein's operetta ''

'', the character of ''The Old Lady'' sings an aria, ''"I am easily assimilated"'', in which she refers to her father as having been born in ''Rovno Gubernya'' *

Zuzanna Ginczanka Zuzanna Ginczanka, ''pen name'' Zuzanna Polina Gincburg (March 22, 1917 – 1944) was a Polish people, Polish-Jews, Jewish poet of the Polish culture in the Interbellum, interwar period. Although she only published a single collection of poetry i ...

,(1917–1945), Polish poet of the interwar period. * Erast Huculak (1930–2013), Canadian businessman, public figure and philanthropist * Artem Kachanovskyi (born 1992), 2-dan professional Go player, three-time European Champion, Editor-in-chief of the European Go Journal. * Jan Kobylański (1923–2019), Polish-Paraguayan businessman, founder of the Union of Polish Associations and Organizations in Latin America * Olga Kulchynska (born 1990), Ukrainian soprano opera singer * Sophie Irene Loeb (1876–1929), American

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and

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advocate * Yuriy Lutsenko (born 1964), politician and Prosecutor General of Ukraine, 2016 to 2019 * Oksana Markarova (born 1976), Minister of Finance, 2018 to 2020 and diplomat * Nazar Nebozhynskyi (1999–2022), Ukrainian athlete, soldier, Hero of Ukraine * Natalya Pasichnyk (born 1971), Swedish-Ukrainian classical pianist, she lives in Stockholm * Olga Pasichnyk (born 1968), Polish-Ukrainian classical soprano singer, she lives in Poland * Stanisław Albrecht Radziwiłł (1914–1976) Polish nobleman, a scion of the House of Radziwiłł * Shmuel Shoresh (1913–1981), Israeli politician, member of the

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from 1955 until 1969 * Boris Smolar (1897–1986), American journalist and newspaper editor * Mira Spivak (born 1934), member of the

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representing

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(1929–2010), Polish free trade union activist and co-founder of

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* Brenda Weisberg (1900–1996), Russian-American screenwriter of monster movies, thrillers & family films * Wladimir Wertelecki (born 1936), pediatrician, medical geneticist and teratologist in the US * Yaroslav Yevdokimov (born 1946), baritone singer. * Vsevolod Zaderatsky (1891–1953), Russian Imperial and Ukrainian Soviet composer, pianist and teacher * Yana Zinkevych (born 1995), Ukrainian member of parliament and military veteran * Moishe Zilberfarb (1876-1934), Ukrainian politician, diplomat, and public activist * Maksym Kryvtsov (1990–2024), Ukrainian poet, public figure, volunteer, soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and participant in the Russian-Ukrainian war * Grygorii Tsekhmistrenko (1994–2023), Canadian civic activist, volunteer medic of Ukrainian origin, soldier of the International Legion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, participant of the Russian-Ukrainian war

Sport

Serhiy Honchar Serhiy Gonchar (; born 3 July 1970) is a Ukrainian former professional road racing cyclist. He won the World Time Trial Championship in 2000. Due to a temporary spelling error in his passport, he is often incorrectly called Honchar. Career G ...

(born 1970), professional road racing cyclist * Serhiy Lishchuk (born 1982), basketball player, Valencia BC legend, nicknamed "the Ukraine Train" * Mykhailo Romanchuk (born 1996), swimmer, silver & bronze medallst at the

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* Viktor Trofimov (1938–2013), former Soviet international speedway rider * Alla Tsuper (born 1979), Ukrainian and Belarusian aerial skier and gold medallist at the 2014 Winter Olympics *Ancestors of Demian Maia (born 1977), UFC Fighter, BJJ Champion and ADCC Champion. His grandfather Stefan Szwec came from Rovno, village of Shpaniv to Brazil in 1926. Demian Maia’s grandmother, Eugenia Kirilchuk, also came from Rovno region.

International relations

Twin towns – Sister cities

Rivne is twinned with: * Vidin in

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* Kobuleti in

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* Oberviechtach in

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* Radomsko County in

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* Zvolen in

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* Federal Way in the

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* East Brunswick, New Jersey in the

* Sievierodonetsk in

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* Pankow in

* Jelenia Góra in

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* Kupiansk in

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Gallery

File:Prospekt Miru-Rivne.jpg, Prospect Myru (Peace Avenue) File:Soborna Street in Rivne.jpg, Soborna (Cathedral) Street File:Maidan Nezalezhnosti-Rivne.jpg, Independence square with cinema and statue of

File:Railway Station-Rivne.JPG, Railway terminal File:Костёл Петра и Павла, фасад.JPG, Saint Peter and Paul church File:Ровно. Свято-Николаевский монастырь..JPG, Saint Nicholas Monastery

Notes

References

Maps

* Рівне, план міста, 1:12000. Міста України. Картографія.
infomisto.com — map of the Rivne, information and reference portal.

External links

Official website of Rivne City Council and Rivne City Administration

Rivne Bird webcam

Rivne Places of Interest

* ttps://dbs.bh.org.il/place/rivne-rovno The Jewish Community of Rivne, The Museum of the Jewish People at Beit Hatfutsot * {{Authority control Cities in Rivne Oblast Historic Jewish communities in Ukraine Cities of regional significance in Ukraine Holocaust locations in Ukraine Oblast centers in Ukraine

Names

History

Middle Ages

World War I

World War II

Post-war era

Russo-Ukrainian War

Population

Ethnic groups

Language

Geography

Climate

Industry

Landmarks

Buildings

Memorials

Popular culture references

Sport

Rugby

Speedway

Notable people

Sport

International relations

Twin towns – Sister cities

Gallery

See also

Notes

References

Maps

External links