Kivertsi (, ; ) is a city in
Volyn Oblast
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, in north-western
Ukraine
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. It is the
administrative center
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of
Kivertsi urban hromada
Kivertsi (, ; ) is a city in Volyn Oblast, in north-western Ukraine. It is the administrative center of Kivertsi urban hromada. Total area is 848,200 ha. Population is
It is located in the historic region of Volhynia, 12 km northeast from ...
. Total area is 848,200 ha. Population is
It is located in the historic region of
Volhynia
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, 12 km northeast from the city of
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 ...
, the regional center.
The city has 3 artificial reservoirs (lake Molodizhne, with the area of 1.25 hectares, and two little lakes with an area of 1 ha each), the Prudnik River is passing through. On all sides, the city is surrounded by forests. Within the city, there is 171.7 hectares of forested land.
Emblem
The Emblem of Kivertsi – a square divided horizontally into two parts. On the upper side of the white part there's a running red squirrel, the lower side is divided into three vertical stripes of equal width – green, yellow and green.
Origin of the name
Historians associate the name Kivertsi with the name of an ancient tribe called
Tivertsi
The Tivertsi (; ; or ), were a tribe of early East Slavs which lived in the lands near the Dniester, and probably the lower Danube, that is in modern-day western Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova and possibly in eastern Romania and the south ...
that lived on the banks of the
Dniester River
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at the mouth of the
Danube
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. At the end of the 11th and the beginning of the 12th century under the pressure of neighbour nomadic tribes Tivertsi moved north. Divided into smaller groups the tribe has spread and settled in Volyn. Over time, the name mutated into Kivertsi and was assigned to the place of settlement of the tribe.
History
Kivertsi is a relatively young city, it is a little more than 130 years. Although the first settlements in this area appeared much earlier, as evidenced by the treasure of
Roman
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coins from II-III BC, found here in 1700.
Kivertsi town owes its appearance on the map to the development of railway construction, which intensified after the abolition of serfdom in Russia in 1861.
In the 1870-1873 between the cities of
Rivne
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Kovel
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Kovel gives its name to one of the oldest runic inscriptions which were lost during World War I ...
a railway track was laid, and 7 km from the village Kivertsi (now Prylutske) was built a station with the same name. In 1890, the War Department of the Russian Empire paved the railroad through Kivertsi to Lutsk, and then – to
Lviv
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and Radehov, a border state with
Austria-Hungary
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at that time. The town became an important railway junction.
During
World War I
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, in March 1918, residents strongly opposed the Austro-Hungarian occupation. In May 1919 Kivertsi was captured by Poland. In July 1920 the city was occupied by the
Red Army
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, but according to the
Treaty of Riga
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of 1921 the settlement became a part of Poland, within which it was administratively located in the
Wołyń Voivodeship.
Following the joint German-Soviet
invasion of Poland
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, which started
World War II
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in September 1939, it was
occupied by the Soviet Union and incorporated by the
Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
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. In July 1941 German troops captured Kivertsi. In February 1944 Kivertsi was recaptured by the Soviets, and eventually annexed from Poland the following year.
A local newspaper is published here since January 1945.
Town since June 1951
[Киверцы // Большая Советская Энциклопедия. / под ред. А. М. Прохорова. 3-е изд. том 12. М., «Советская энциклопедия», 1973. стр.83][Киверцы // Большой энциклопедический словарь (в 2-х тт.). / редколл., гл. ред. А. М. Прохоров. том 1. М., "Советская энциклопедия", 1991. стр.573]
In January 1989 the population was 16 722 people.
Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989 г. Численность городского населения союзных республик, их территориальных единиц, городских поселений и городских районов по полу
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Culture
Events and celebrations taking place in Kivertsi
* Independence Day – 24 August
* National Flag Day – 23 August
* Day of Kivertsi – 9 September
* Youth Day – the last Sunday of May
* International Children's Day – 1 June
* Victory Day – 9 May
* Holodomor (The Great Famine) Remembrance Day – November 28
* "Farewell winter, spring meeting"
References
External links
Official website of Kivertsi's District Administration
Official website of Kivertsi's City Council
Unofficial website of Kivertsi
Community website of Kivertsi
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Cities in Volyn Oblast
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Populated places established in the Russian Empire
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