Dunaivtsi (, ; ; ) is a

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Kamianets-Podilskyi Raion Kamianets-Podilskyi Raion () is one of the three administrative Raions of Ukraine, raions (district) of Khmelnytskyi Oblast in western Ukraine. Its administrative center is located in the city of Kamianets-Podilskyi. Population: On 18 July 2020, ...

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, Ukraine. It is located on the river Ternavka, 22 km away from the railway station Dunaivtsi and 68 km from the Khmelnytskyi. Reinforcement plant, repair and engineering works and butter-processing plant are located in the city. The city also houses a control center of the

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. Dunaivtsi hosts the administration of Dunaivtsi urban hromada, one of the

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s of Ukraine. Current population is 15,078 (2024).

History

The date of the first written mention in document about Dunaivtsi is 1403. This year is assumed to be the foundation date of the settlement. At the request of heiress Elżbieta Lanckorońska, King

Sigismund III Vasa Sigismund III Vasa (, ; 20 June 1566 – 30 April 1632 N.S.) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1587 to 1632 and, as Sigismund, King of Sweden from 1592 to 1599. He was the first Polish sovereign from the House of Vasa. Re ...

granted Magdeburg city rights, established weekly markets and two annual

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s. In 1605, King Sigismund III Vasa granted the coat of arms and established two more annual fairs. It was a

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of various

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, including the Stanisławski and

Krasiński Krasiński (sometimes spelled Krasinsky, if originally transliterated from Russian, Ukrainian or Belarusian) is a surname of Polish, or generally Slavic, origin. In its feminine version, the Polish surname becomes Krasińska, and the Russian or Be ...

families, administratively located in the

Podolian Voivodeship The Podolian Voivodeship or Palatinate of Podolia was a unit of administrative division and local government in the Kingdom of Poland, from 1434 until 1793, except for the period of Ottoman occupation (1672–1699), when the region was organized ...

in the Lesser Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland. The local Catholic parish church was built by the

Koniecpolski family The House of Koniecpolski (plural: Koniecpolscy) is the name of an old and once powerful Polish noble family. History The Koniecpolski was a magnate family. The family appears in the historical annals beginning in the 15th century. The family ...

, and was the burial site of several members of the Krasiński family. Stanisław Potocki built a Capuchin church in 1751. Dunajowce

After the

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, in 1793–1917, it was a town in the

Podolian Governorate Podolia Governorate was an administrative-territorial unit ('' guberniya'') of the Southwestern Krai of the Russian Empire. It bordered Volhynian Governorate to the north, Kiev Governorate to the east, Kherson Governorate to the southeast, Bess ...

of the

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. Industrial peak of the town was on the 1870s, when 54 factories were working and close trade relations were between Dunaivtsi and

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, Chişinău,

Kharkiv Kharkiv, also known as Kharkov, is the second-largest List of cities in Ukraine, city in Ukraine.

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, Yarmolyntsi. Between 1917 and 1920, it was at various times under Ukrainian, Polish and

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control. During

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, the town was occupied by the Germans from July 1941 until last days of March 1944. During the occupation, the Germans carried out executions of the Jews. A witness interviewed by Yahad-In Unum described one of these executions, stating, "The Germans gathered 700 Jews of Demyankovtsy. They took them into the mine where the water rose until their knees. Afterwards, the entrance was exploded and Jews were suffocated inside." Dunaivtsi has had city status in its modern form since 1958. Until 18 July 2020, Dunaivtsi was the administrative center of Dunaivtsi Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Khmelnytskyi Oblast to three. The area of Dunaivtsi Raion was merged into Kamianets-Podilskyi Raion.

Geography

The city is located almost in the geographic center of Dunaivtsi Raion on the Ternavka (a left tributary of the

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), 68 km away from the center of the

— the city Khmelnytskyi. Geographical coordinates of the city are 48°53'22" (latitude) and 26°51'25" (longitude). The total area of the city is 12.84 km² including 2.14 km² of the built-up area and 0.483 km² of the city's plantation. The total length of the streets, passages and embankments is 93.8 km.Business Dunaivtsi (About the city)

Population

630 houses and about 3 thousand inhabitants were in Dunaivtsi in 1629. According to the census of 1909 the population of Dunaivtsi was 13 733 (8 966 Jews, 2 349 Eastern Orthodoxes, 1 266

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, 1 188

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, 4 members of

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). In

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more than 13 thousand people lived in Dunaivtsi, where 553 houses were in this year.History of the city
According to the census of 1989, Dunaivtsi's population was 17 482, and according to the census of 2001, 16 448 inhabitants were in Dunaivtsi.Ukrainian cities and the largest towns
According to more recent data provided by Khmelnytskyi Oblast Rada in 2006 population of Dunaivtsi city was 16 223, in 2007 – 16 187, in 2008 – 16 094, in 2009 – 16 140.Dunaivtsi city
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Khmelnytskyi Oblast Rada (official website)
On 1 January 2010 it reached the peak of its historical population, with 20 724 inhabitants. In January 2013 the population was 16,219 people.

Notable people

''See also :People from Dunaivtsi'' * Bolesław Woytowicz, Polish pianist and composer *

Nykyfor Hryhoriv Nykyfor Oleksandrovych Hryhoriv (or Grigoryev, real surname Servetnyk; – 27 July 1919) was a Ukrainian military leader noted for repeatedly switching sides during the Ukrainian War of Independence and Soviet-Ukrainian war. He is today con ...

, paramilitary leader * Frantz Lender, Soviet weapons designer * Gennady Semigin, Russian politician * Pavlo Hai-Nyzhnyk, historian * Wincenty Krasiński, Political activist and military leader *

Zygmunt Krasiński Count Napoleon Stanisław Adam Feliks Zygmunt Krasiński (; 19 February 1812 – 23 February 1859) was a Polish poet traditionally ranked after Adam Mickiewicz and Juliusz Słowacki as one of Poland's Three Bards – the Romantic poets who ...

, Polish Romantic poet *

Mollie Steimer Mollie Steimer (; November 21, 1897 – July 23, 1980) was a Ukrainian anarchist activist. After settling in New York City in 1913, she quickly became involved in the local anarchism in the United States, anarchist movement and was caught up ...

, Trade Unionist, Anti-war Activist and Free-Speech Campaigner

Economy

Supermarket "Vopak" was open in Dunaivtsi on 20 September 2007.New supermarket opens in Dunaivtsi

Twin towns

Dunaivtsi has two

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—

Turek Turek is a town in central Poland with 31,282 inhabitants . It is the capital of Turek County in the Greater Poland Voivodeship. It is located in the Sieradz Land. History Turek is first mentioned in the historical record 1136, when it was lis ...

(Poland) and

Brandýs nad Labem-Stará Boleslav Brandýs nad Labem-Stará Boleslav (; and ''Altbunzlau'') is an administratively united pair of towns in Prague-East District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 20,000 inhabitants and it is the second largest Czech ...

(Czech Republic).Delegation from Brandýs nad Labem-Stará Boleslav visited Dunaivtsi on Victory Day. official website of Dunaivtsi raion government
Cooperation of Dunaivtsi with Turek was established in 2000, while with Czech city — on 10 May 2010.

References

External links

Registration form of city in the Ukrainian Parliament official website

Dunaivtsi website
{{Authority control Cities in Khmelnytskyi Oblast Cities of district significance in Ukraine Ushitsky Uyezd Holocaust locations in Ukraine * Historic Jewish communities in Ukraine