Solonka (; ) is a village in

Lviv Raion Lviv Raion () is a raion (district) of Lviv Oblast, Ukraine. It was created on 18 July 2020 as part of the reform of administrative divisions of Ukraine. The center of the raion is the city of Lviv. Four abolished raions, Horodok, Peremyshliany, ...

Lviv Oblast Lviv Oblast (, ), also referred to as Lvivshchyna (, ), is an administrative divisions of Ukraine, oblast in western Ukraine. The capital city, capital of the oblast is the city of Lviv. The current population is History Name The region is named ...

, in western Ukraine. It is the capital of Solonka rural hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Its population is 7,476 (as of 2024).

Overview

Solonka was first mentioned in the 15th century. There was an anti-serfdom uprising led by peasants in the village during the 16th century. Following the

Soviet annexation of Eastern Galicia and Volhynia On the basis of a secret clause of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, the Soviet Union invaded Poland on September 17, 1939, capturing the eastern provinces of the Second Polish Republic. Lwów (present-day Lviv), the capital of the Lwów Voivodeshi ...

in 1939, a

sovkhoz A sovkhoz ( rus, совхо́з, p=sɐfˈxos, a=ru-sovkhoz.ogg, syllabic abbreviation, abbreviated from , ''sovetskoye khozyaystvo''; ) was a form of state-owned farm or agricultural enterprise in the Soviet Union. It is usually contrasted w ...

was established in the village under the name "Victory". Solonka is home to multiple churches, belonging to both the

Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC) is a Major archiepiscopal church, major archiepiscopal ''sui iuris'' ("autonomous") Eastern Catholic Churches, Eastern Catholic church that is based in Ukraine. As a particular church of the Cathol ...

(such as the 2011 Church of the Holy Trinity) and the

Orthodox Church of Ukraine The Orthodox Church of Ukraine (; OCU), also called the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, is an Eastern Orthodox Church in Ukraine. It was granted autocephaly by the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople on . Some of the Eastern Orthodox Churche ...

(including the 1939 Church of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin Mary). One such Orthodox church in the village, the Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord, was consecrated by Metropolitan Epiphanius I in 2022.

Notable people

* Yaroslav Kendzior, journalist, human rights activist, and politician. * , botanist.

References

{{Lviv Oblast Villages in Lviv Raion