Lutsk ( uk, Луцьк, translit=Lutsk}, ; pl, Łuck ; yi, לוצק, Lutzk) is a city on the Styr River in northwestern

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. It is the

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of the Volyn Oblast (

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) and the administrative center of the surrounding Lutsk Raion (

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) within the oblast. Lutsk has a population of It is a historical, political, cultural and religious center of Volyn.

Etymology

Lutsk is an ancient Slavic town, mentioned in the Hypatian Chronicle as Luchesk in the records of 1085. The etymology of the name is unclear. There are three hypotheses: the name may have been derived from the Old Slavic word ''luka'' (an arc or bend in a river), or the name may have originated from ''Luka'' (the chieftain of the '' Dulebs''), an ancient Slavic tribe living in this area. The name may also have been created after ''Luchanii'' (Luchans), an ancient branch of the tribe mentioned above. Its historical name in

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is "Луцьк".

History

According to the legend, Luchesk dates from the

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. The first known documentary reference dates were from the year 1085. The town served as the capital of the Principality of Halych-Volynia (founded in 1199) until the rise of Volodymyr. The town grew around a wooden stronghold built by a local branch of the

Rurik Dynasty The Rurik dynasty ( be, Ру́рыкавічы, Rúrykavichy; russian: Рю́риковичи, Ryúrikovichi, ; uk, Рю́риковичі, Riúrykovychi, ; literally "sons/scions of Rurik"), also known as the Rurikid dynasty or Rurikids, was ...

. At certain times the location functioned as the capital of the principality, but since there was no need for a fixed capital in medieval Europe, the town did not become an important centre of commerce or culture.

Grand Duchy of Lithuania

In 1240,

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seized and looted the nearby town but left the castle unharmed. In 1321, George, son of Lev, the last prospective heir of Halych-Volynia, died in a battle with the forces of Gediminas, Grand Duke of Lithuania, and

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n forces seized the castle. In 1349, the forces of King

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captured the town, but Lithuania soon retook it. The town began to prosper during the period of Lithuanian rule. Prince Lubart (died 1384), son of Gediminas, erected Lubart's Castle as part of his fortification programme. Vytautas the Great, Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1392 to 1430, founded the town itself by importing colonists (mostly Jews,

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, and Karaims). In 1427 he transferred the Catholic bishopric from Volodymyr to Luchesk. Vytautas was the last monarch to use the title of "Duke of Volhynia" and to reside in Lubart's Castle. The town grew rapidly, and by the end of the 15th century there were 19 Orthodox and two Catholic churches. It was the seat of two Christian bishops, one Catholic and one Orthodox. Because of that, the town was sometimes nicknamed "the ''Volhynian Rome''." The cross symbol of Lutsk features on the highest Lithuanian Presidential award, the Order of Vytautas the Great. In 1429 Lutsk was the meeting place selected for a conference of monarchs hosted by Jogaila and Sophia of Halshany to deal with the Tatar threat. Those invited to attend included Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor; Vasili II of Russia, the king of

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; Eric of Pomerania, the Grand Master of the Livonian Order; Zisse von Rutenberg, the Duke of Szczecin Kazimierz V; Dan II, the ''Hospodar'' of Wallachia; and

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s of most of the countries of Germany.

Crown of the Kingdom of Poland

In 1432, Volhynia became a

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of the

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and Lutsk became the seat of the governors, and later the Marshalls of the Land of Volhynia. That same year, the city was granted

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. In 1569, Volhynia was fully incorporated into the Polish kingdom and the town became the capital of the Volhynian Voivodeship and the Łuck

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(Polish administrative unit). After the Union of Lublin, the local Orthodox bishop converted to Eastern Catholicism. The town continued to prosper as an important economic centre of the region. By the mid-17th century, Łuck had approximately 50,000 inhabitants and was one of the largest towns in the area. During the Khmelnytskyi Uprising, the town was seized by the forces of Colonel Kolodko. Up to 4,000 people were slaughtered, approximately 35,000 fled, and the town was looted and partially burnt. It never fully recovered. In 1781, the city was struck by a fire which destroyed 440 houses, both cathedrals, and several other churches.

Russian Empire

In 1795, as a result of the

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, the

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annexed Lutsk. The Voivodeship was liquidated and the town lost its significance as the capital of the province (which was moved to Zhytomyr). After the November Uprising (1830–1831), efforts increased to remove Polish influence. Russian became the dominant language in official circles. Though, the population continued to speak

; the Polish population spoke Polish; and the Jewish population spoke Yiddish (only in private circles). The Greek Catholic churches were turned into Orthodox Christian ones, which led to the self-liquidation of the Uniates here. In 1845, another great fire struck the city, resulting in a further depopulation. In 1850, three major forts were built around Lutsk, and the town became a small fortress called ''Mikhailogorod''. During the

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, the town was seized by

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on August 29, 1915. The town sustained a small amount of damage. During more than a year of Austro-Hungarian occupation, Lutsk became an important military centre with the headquarters of the IV Army under Archduke Josef Ferdinand stationed there. A plague of epidemic typhus decimated the city's inhabitants. On June 4, 1916, four Russian armies under general

Aleksei Brusilov Aleksei Alekseyevich Brusilov ( rus, Алексе́й Алексе́евич Бруси́лов, p=ɐlʲɪkˈsʲej ɐlʲɪkˈsʲejɪvʲɪdʑ brʊˈsʲiɫəf; – 17 March 1926) was a Russian and later Soviet general most noted for the developme ...

started what later became known as the Brusilov Offensive. After up to three days of heavy artillery barrage, the

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began. On June 7, 1916, the Russian forces reconquered the city. After the signing of the

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in 1917, the city was seized by Germany on February 7, 1918. On February 22, 1918, the town was transferred by the withdrawing German army to the forces loyal to

Symon Petlura Symon Vasylyovych Petliura ( uk, Си́мон Васи́льович Петлю́ра; – May 25, 1926) was a Ukrainian politician and journalist. He became the Supreme Commander of the Ukrainian Army and the President of the Ukrainian People' ...

Second Polish Republic

During the Polish-Bolshevik War, on May 16, 1919, Lutsk was taken over by the forces of Poland's Blue Army after a heavy battle with the

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. The city was devastated and largely depopulated. It witnessed the Soviet counter-offensive of 1920 and was taken on 12 July 1920. It was recaptured by Poland's 45th Rifles regiment and field artillery on September 15, 1920. According to American sociologist Alexander Gella "the Polish victory ver the Red Armyhad gained twenty years of independence not only for Poland, but at least for an entire central part of Europe.Aleksander Gella (1988), ''Development of Class Structure in Eastern Europe: Poland and Her Southern Neighbors'', SUNY Press,
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as the capital of the Wołyń Voivodeship. The city was connected by railroad to

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(then Lwów) and Przemyśl. Several brand new factories were built both in Łuck and on its outskirts producing farming equipment, wood, and leather products among other consumer goods. New mills and breweries opened. An orphanage was built, and a big new bursary. The first high-school was soon inaugurated. In 1937, an airport was established in Łuck with an area of . The 13th ''Kresowy'' Light Artillery Regiment was stationed in the city, together with a ''Łuck'' National Defense (Poland) Battalion. In 1938, construction of a large modern radio transmitter began in the city (see Polish Radio Łuck). As of January 1, 1939, Łuck had 39,000 inhabitants (approximately 17,500 Jews and 13,500 Poles). The powiat formed around the town had 316,970 inhabitants, including 59% Ukrainians, 19.5% Poles, 14% Jews and approximately 23,000

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and

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World War II

On Thursday, September 7, 1939 at app. 5 p.m., the Polish government, which had left

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the day before, arrived at Łuck. German intelligence quickly found out about it, and the city was twice bombed by the

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: on Sept. 11, and Sept. 14. After panzer units of the

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had crossed the Bug river, on September 14, the government of Poland left Łuck and headed southwards, to Kosow Huculski, which at that time was located near the Polish–Romanian border. As a result of the

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from both sides and the

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, Łuck, along with the rest of western Volyn, was annexed by the Soviet Union. Most of the factories (including the almost-finished radio station) were dismantled and sent east to Russia. Approximately 10,000 of the city's Polish inhabitants (chiefly ethnic Poles, but also

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) were deported in cattle trucks to

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and 1,550 were arrested by the

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.Tadeusz Piotrowski (1998),
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the city was captured by the

on 25 June 1941. Thousands of Polish and Ukrainian prisoners were shot by the retreating NKVD responsible for political prisons. The inmates were offered amnesty and in the morning of ordered to exit the building en masse. They were gunned down by Soviet tanks. Some 4,000 captives including Poles, Jews and Ukrainians were massacred.Piotrowski 1998, p. 17
The Murder of the Jews of Lutsk
at

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website Upon Nazi occupation most of the Jewish inhabitants of the city were forced into a new

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(german: Ghetto Luzk) and then murdered at the execution site on Górka Połonka hill not far from the city.Andrzej Mielcarek
Wieś i kolonia Hnidawa, inaczej Gnidawa, powiat Łuck
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subdivision) is misspelled in the documentary, with testimony of eyewitness Shmuel Shilo. Retrieved July 24, 2015. men, women and children.YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe
Lutsk.
Ghetto history. Retrieved 22 July 2015. The Łuck Ghetto was liquidated entirely through ''the Holocaust by bullets''. Retrieved 20 July 2015. During the

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approximately 10,000 Poles were murdered by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army in the area. It was captured by the

on 2 February 1944.

Postwar

After the end of the war, the remaining Polish inhabitants of the city were expelled, mostly to the areas that is sometimes referred to as the Polish Regained Territories. The city became an industrial centre in the

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. The major changes in the city's demographics had the final result that by the end of the war the city was almost entirely Ukrainian. During the

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, the city hosted the Lutsk air base. As one of the largest cities in Western Ukraine, Lutsk became the seat of a General Consulate of Poland in 2003. On 21 July 2020, a hostage crisis took place, involving a man armed with a firearm and explosives who stormed a bus and took 16 people hostage at about 9:25 a.m. Police said that they had identified the hostagetaker and that he had expressed a dissatisfaction with "Ukraine's system" on social media.

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Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that shots gas been heard and that the bus had been damaged. The incident led to police blocking off the city centre. The standoff was eventually resolved after several hours, with all of the hostages being freed and the hostagetaker being arrested.

2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine

On 11 March 2022, as part of the Russian invasion, the Russian army fired four missiles at Lutsk military airfield killing two Ukrainian servicemen and wounding six. On 28 March, Lutsk was struck by another Russian missile.

Climate

Lutsk has a

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(''Dfb'' in the

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Industry and commerce

Lutsk is an important centre of industry. Factories producing cars, shoes, bearings, furniture, machines and

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, as well as weaveries, steel mills and a

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are located in the area. * VGP JSC – manufacture of sanitary and hygienic products * LuAZ – automobile-manufacturing plant, part of Bogdan group * SKF – manufacture of bearings, seals, lubrication and lubrication systems, maintenance products, mechatronics products, power transmission products and related services globally * Modern-Expo Group – one of the largest manufacturers and suppliers of equipment (metal shelving, high racks systems, checkouts,

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equipment, refrigeration equipment,

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-equipment and guidance systems) for

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use in

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Places of interest

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* Lubart's Castle. The Upper Castle from the 13th century and the Lower Castle from the 14th century * Saint Peter and Paul Cathedral. A Catholic cathedral built 1610 as a Jesuit church, reconstructed in 1781 * Great Synagogue built in 1626–1629 * Holy Trinity Orthodox Cathedral built 1755 as a church and monastery of Bernardines * Lutheran Church * Complex of Lutsk Orthodox Fellowship * Market square * Lesya Ukrainka street *Monasteries, both Catholic and Orthodox: Basilians (17th century), Dominicans (17th century), Trinitarians (18th century) and Charites (18th century) *Two 16th century Greek-Catholic churches *Lutsk compact overhead powerline, a powerline of unusual type. *

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of the longest buildings in the world: Apartment house on Sobornosti av. and Molodyozhi st. (50.761219°N, 25.368719°E) Length: 1750 m. File:Łuck - kościół 2008.jpg, St. Peter and Paul Cathedral File:ЛуцькСинагогаГол.jpg, The Great Synagogue in Lutsk File:Lutsk sobor.jpg, Holy Trinity Cathedral

Theatres and museums

*Drama Theatre, built in 1939 (uk) *Children's Puppet Theater *Museum of Regional Studies. Address: Shopena St. 20 *Museum of Ukrainian army and ammunition opened in 1999. Address: Lutsk, vul. Taborishi 4 *Museum of Volyn Icon was opened in August 1993. Relatively small museum in the centre on the town. Has some interesting and very old icons. Address: vul. Yaroshchuka 5. (behind the Lesia Ukrainka Volyn State University)
THE KORSAKS’ MUSEUM OF THE CONTEMPORARY UKRAINIAN ART
. Address: vul. Karbysheva 1

Notable people

* Shlomo Ben-Yosef (1913-1938) a member of Revisionist Zionist underground group

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. *

Volodymyr Bondar Volodymyr Nalkovych Bondar ( uk, Володимир Налькович Бондар; born 16 October 1968, Lutsk, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian political activist and later politician, member of the Verkhovna Rada. In 1995-2001 he worked at the Volyn O ...

(born 1968), politician,

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2005-2007 * Benedykt Chmielowski (1700–1763), a Polish priest, author of encyclopedia, Nowe Ateny * Count Włodzimierz Czacki (1834–1888) a Polish

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from 1882 *

Alojzy Feliński Alojzy Feliński (1771 – 1820) was a Polish writer. Life Feliński was born in Łuck. In his childhood he met Tadeusz Czacki. He was educated by the Piarists in Dąbrownica, later in Włodzimierz Wołyński. In 1778 he settled in Lubli ...

(1771-1820), Polish scientist and writer * Abraham Firkovich (1786–1874) a Karaite writer and

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and collector of ancient manuscripts * Shlomo Flam (died 1813), Hasidic rabbi and maggid in Lutsk * Kateryna Gornostai (born 1989) a Ukrainian film director, screenwriter and film editor. *

Bolesław Kontrym Lieutenant Bolesław Kontrym (Zatruka, Russian Empire, 27 August 1898 – 20 January 1953, Warsaw, Poland), also known by codenames ''Żmudzin'', ''Biały'', ''Bielski'' and ''Cichocki'', was a Polish Army officer, a Home Army soldier, partic ...

(1898-1953), a Polish Army officer, participant in the Warsaw Uprising * Mikołaj Kruszewski (1851-1887), a Polish linguist, co-inventor of the concept of

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s * Dinora Pines (1918–2002), British physician and psychoanalyst, especially

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* Volodymyr Runchak (born 1960) a Ukrainian accordionist, conductor and composer * Shmuel Shilo (1929–2011), an Israeli actor, director and producer * Florian Siwicki (1925-2013), a Polish military officer, diplomat and communist politician. *

Zalman Sorotzkin Zalman Sorotzkin, also known as the Lutzker Rav ( he, זלמן סורוצקין; 1881–1966), was an Orthodox rabbi who served as the rabbi of Lutsk, Ukraine. By the end of his life he was noted for his leadership of Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah (Coun ...

(1881-1966), an Orthodox rabbi who served as the rabbi of Lutsk and author * Mordecai Sultansky (ca. 1772-1862), Karaite Jewish

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and scholar *

Tartak Tartak (Polish for ''sawmill'') may refer to: Places Poland * Tartak, Greater Poland Voivodeship * Tartak, Lublin Voivodeship * Tartak, Augustów County * Tartak, Siemiatycze County * Tartak, Sokółka County * Tartak, Suwałki County * Tartak, Mi ...

(founded 1994), music band; all members were born in Lutsk *

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(1907–1961), Israeli politician and member of the Knesset *

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(1919 -1981), engineer, first woman professor of Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics at Michigan Technological University * Oksana Zabuzhko (born 1960), contemporary Ukrainian poet, writer and essayist * Svetlana Zakharova (born 1979), a Ukrainian prima ballerina with the Bolshoi Ballet * Joseph Zinker (born 1934), Gestalt psychology therapist, painter and sculptor. Anatoliy Tymoshchuk 2017

Sport

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(born 1968), Ukrainian-born Slovak ice hockey player * Oleksandr Chyzhevskyi (born 1971) football coach and former player with 513 club caps. *

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(born 1977) a Ukrainian biathlete and gold medallist at the Cross-country skiing at the 2006 Winter Paralympics * Volodymyr Mozolyuk (born 1964) a Ukrainian retired footballer with over 540 club caps. * Anzhelika Savrayuk (born 1989), Italian rhythmic gymnast, team broze medallist at the

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* Vyacheslav Shevchuk (born 1979) a retired footballer with 34 club caps and 56 with

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(born 1979), footballer with 533 club caps and 144 for

In popular culture

The NKVD and Nazi massacres are mentioned in the

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awarded novel '' The Kindly Ones'' by

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. Lutsk is a location taken over by post-apocalyptic slavers in the sci-fi/adventure novel ''The Crisis Pendant'' by Charlie Patterson.

Twin towns – sister cities

Lutsk is twinned with: *

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, Turkey *

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, Poland * Brest, Belarus * Chełm, Poland * Kaunas, Lithuania *

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Gallery

File:Lutskadministr.jpg, Volyn' regional administration in Lutsk File:ЛуцькКафГол.jpg, Kafedralna avenue File:ЛуцькВоліГВ.jpg, Modern architecture File:Монастир Домініканів.jpg, Dominican monastery File:ЛуцькБрВиг.jpg, Orthodox Fellowship building File:ЛуцькГалВ.jpg, Daniel of Galicia street File:ЛуцькЛесіКрилова.jpg, Lesya Ukrainka street

References

External links

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Official tourist websiteLutsk - historical description
(in Ukrainian)
Orthodox Lutsk
(in Ukrainian)

* * {{Authority control Magdeburg rights Cities in Volyn Oblast Wołyń Voivodeship (1921–1939) Lutsky Uyezd Volhynian Voivodeship (1569–1795) Shtetls Cities of regional significance in Ukraine Holocaust locations in Ukraine Oblast centers in Ukraine