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Luha
The Luha (, ) is a river in Ukraine and a right tributary of the Bug. Its source is located near the village of Kolpytiv in the Horokhiv Upland. In its upper reaches, the Luha runs mainly in a western, northwestern direction, and later northwards. In its lower stream, it runs mainly in a northwestern direction and enters the Western Bug on northwestern outskirts of the city of Ustyluh. Biggest tributaries: Luha-Svynoryika, Svynoryika, Rylovytsia (right side); Strypa (left side) Character of the river is plain as it flows through swampy floodplains. Major settlements along the river: Volodymyr, Ustyluh In 2000, local hydrological reserve "Luha" was created along the river. The river was widely used for sugar industry in recent times. References External links Luhaat the OpenStreetMap OpenStreetMap (abbreviated OSM) is a free, Open Database License, open geographic database, map database updated and maintained by a community of volunteers via open collaboration. Contr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bug (river)
The Bug or Western Bug is a major river in Central Europe that flows through Belarus (border), Poland, and Ukraine, with a total length of .Statistical Yearbook of the Republic of Poland 2017 Statistics Poland, p. 85-86 A of the , the Bug forms part of the |
Lokachi Raion
Lokachi Raion () was a raion in Volyn Oblast in western Ukraine. Its administrative center was the urban-type settlement Urban-type settlement, abbreviated: ; , abbreviated: ; ; ; ; . is an official designation for lesser urbanized settlements, used in several Central and Eastern Europe, Central and Eastern European countries. The term was primarily used in the So ... of Lokachi. The raion was abolished and its territory was merged into Volodymyr-Volynskyi Raion on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Volyn Oblast to four. The last estimate of the raion population was See also * Administrative divisions of Volyn Oblast References External links locadm.gov.ua Former raions of Volyn Oblast 1965 establishments in Ukraine Ukrainian raions abolished during the 2020 administrative reform {{Volyn-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horokhiv Upland
Horokhiv (, ; ; ) is a small city in Volyn Oblast, in north-western Ukraine. Population: History The first written mention of it was in 1240 in the Hypatian Codex. It was a private town, administratively located in the Volhynian Voivodeship in the Lesser Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland. Polish politician and economist Walerian Stroynowski built a palace in the town. From the Third Partition of Poland of 1795 until the Russian Revolution of 1917, it was part of Volhynian Governorate of the Russian Empire; from 1921 to 1939 it was part of Wołyń Voivodeship of Poland. A railway station was built here in 1924-1925. Following the German-Soviet invasion of Poland, which started World War II in September 1939, it was occupied by the Soviet Union until 1941. In 1939 it became a town.Горохов // Большая Советская Энциклопедия. / редколл., гл. ред. Б. А. Введенский. 2-е изд. том 12. М., Государст� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ustyluh
Ustyluh, also known as Ustilug, is a small city in Volodymyr Raion, Volyn Oblast, Ukraine. It is situated on the east side of the border with Poland, and west of the city of Volodymyr. Population: Igor Stravinsky had an estate in Ustyluh and visited it frequently between 1890 and 1914. His mansion is now a museum. History The oldest settlement in the territory of Ustyluh existed back in the Copper Age. During the times of Kievan Rus (9th to 12th centuries CE), there was a fortified settlement in the same location, with a necropolis nearby consisting of 29 burial mounds. In 1897, archaeologist M. F. Bilyashevsky excavated three of these mounds. Ustyluh was among the fortified towns taken by Volodymyr the Great. To this day, a pentagonal fortress remains, surrounded by earthen ramparts made of beaten clay, which in height are not inferior to the ramparts of Volodymyr's capital, and it is pierced from the east by the city gate. Until the Russian Revolution of 1917, it was a s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volodymyr (city)
Volodymyr (, ), previously known as Volodymyr-Volynskyi () from 1944 to 2021, is a small city in Volyn Oblast, northwestern Ukraine. It serves as the administrative centre of Volodymyr Raion and the center of Volodymyr urban hromada. It is one of the oldest cities in Ukraine and the historic centre of the region of Volhynia; it served as the capital of the Principality of Volhynia and later as one of the capital cities of the Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia. Population: The medieval Latin name of the town "Lodomeria" became the namesake of the 19th century Austro-Hungarian Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, of which the town itself was not a part. south from Volodymyr is Zymne, where the oldest Orthodox monastery in Volhynia is located. Name The city was named after Vladimir the Great (Volodymyr the Great), who was born in the village of Budiatychi, about 20 km from Volodymyr, and later also abbreviated ''Lodomeria'', ''Ladimiri''. Following the partitions of Poland and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap (abbreviated OSM) is a free, Open Database License, open geographic database, map database updated and maintained by a community of volunteers via open collaboration. Contributors collect data from surveying, surveys, trace from Aerial photography, aerial photo imagery or satellite imagery, and import from other freely licensed geodata sources. OpenStreetMap is Free content, freely licensed under the Open Database License and is commonly used to make electronic maps, inform turn-by-turn navigation, and assist in humanitarian aid and Data and information visualization, data visualisation. OpenStreetMap uses its own data model to store geographical features which can then be exported into other GIS file formats. The OpenStreetMap website itself is an Web mapping, online map, geodata search engine, and editor. OpenStreetMap was created by Steve Coast in response to the Ordnance Survey, the United Kingdom's national mapping agency, failing to release its data to the pub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
