Ternopil, known until 1944 mostly as Tarnopol, is a

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in western

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, located on the banks of the

Seret River The Seret ( Ukrainian: Серéт) is the left tributary of the Dniester that flows through the Ternopil Oblast of Ukraine. It is long and its basin area is . The towns of Ternopil, Terebovlia and Chortkiv sit along the river's banks. Some of ...

. Ternopil is one of the major cities of

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and the historical regions of Galicia and

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. The population of Ternopil was estimated at The city is the

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Ternopil Oblast Ternopil Oblast (), also referred to as Ternopilshchyna () or Ternopillia (), is an Oblasts of Ukraine, oblast (province) of Ukraine. Its Capital (political), administrative center is Ternopil, through which flows the Seret (river), Seret, a tribu ...

(

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), as well as of surrounding

Ternopil Raion Ternopil Raion () is a raion in Ternopil Oblast, western Ukraine. Its administrative center is Ternopil. It has a population of On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Ternopil Oblast was reduced ...

(

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) within the oblast. It hosts the administration of

Ternopil urban hromada Ternopil urban hromada () is a hromada of Ukraine, in Ternopil Raion of Ternopil Oblast. Its Capital (political), administrative center is Ternopil. Population: History The amalgamated hromada was created 14 November 2018 by uniting 5 rural ...

, one of the

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s of Ukraine.

History

The city was founded in 1540 by Polish commander and

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Jan Amor Tarnowski Jan Amor Tarnowski (Latin: Joannes Tarnovius; 1488 – 16 May 1561) was a Polish people, Polish szlachta, nobleman, knight, military commander, military theoretician, and statesman of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland. He was Grand Crown He ...

. Its Polish name, ''Tarnopol'', means 'Tarnowski's city' and stems from a combination of the founder's family name and the

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term ''

polis Polis (: poleis) means 'city' in Ancient Greek. The ancient word ''polis'' had socio-political connotations not possessed by modern usage. For example, Modern Greek πόλη (polē) is located within a (''khôra''), "country", which is a πατ ...

''. The city served as a military stronghold and castle protecting the eastern borders of Polish Kingdom from Tatar raids. On 15 April 1540, the

King of Poland Poland was ruled at various times either by dukes and princes (10th to 14th centuries) or by kings (11th to 18th centuries). During the latter period, a tradition of Royal elections in Poland, free election of monarchs made it a uniquely electab ...

Sigismund I the Old Sigismund I the Old (, ; 1 January 1467 – 1 April 1548) was List of Polish monarchs, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1506 until his death in 1548. Sigismund I was a member of the Jagiellonian dynasty, the son of Casimir IV of P ...

, in

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gave Tarnowski permission to establish Tarnopol, near Sopilcze (''Sopilche''). In 1570, the city passed to the

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, and in 1623 to the

Zamoyski family The House of Zamoyski (plural: Zamoyscy) is an important Polish noble (''szlachta'') family belonging to the category of Polish magnates. They used the Jelita coat of arms. The surname "Zamoyski" literally means "of/from Zamość" and refle ...

. During the

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, many residents of the city joined the ranks of the

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forces. During the 1672–1676 Polish–Ottoman War, Tarnopol was almost completely destroyed by Turkish forces of Ibrahim Shishman Pasha in 1675, then rebuilt by Aleksander Koniecpolski. In 1772, after the

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, the city came under Austrian rule. In 1809, after the

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, the city came under

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rule, incorporated into the newly created ''Ternopol krai'', but in 1815 returned to Austrian rule in accordance with the

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. In 1870 Tarnopol was connected by railway with

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. During

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, the city passed from

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and

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forces to Russia several times. In 1917, the city and its castle were burned down by fleeing Russian forces. After the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the city was proclaimed as part of the

West Ukrainian People's Republic The West Ukrainian People's Republic (; West Ukrainian People's Republic#Name, see other names) was a short-lived state that controlled most of Eastern Galicia from November 1918 to July 1919. It included major cities of Lviv, Ternopil, Kolom ...

on 11 November 1918. After Polish forces captured

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during the Polish-Ukrainian War, Tarnopol became the country's temporary capital. After the act of union between the West Ukrainian Republic and the

Ukrainian People's Republic The Ukrainian People's Republic (UPR) was a short-lived state in Eastern Europe. Prior to its proclamation, the Central Council of Ukraine was elected in March 1917 Ukraine after the Russian Revolution, as a result of the February Revolution, ...

, Ternopil formally became part of the UPR. On 15 July 1919, the city was captured. The Jewish and German population accepted the new Ukrainian state, but the Poles started a military campaign against the Ukrainian authority ..On November 11, 1918 following bloody fighting, the Polish forces captured Lwów. The government of the WUPR moved to Ternopol and from the end of December the Council and the Government of the WUPR were located in Stanislaviv.
West Ukrainian People's Republic
in the "Dovidnyk z istoriï Ukraïny" (A hand-book on the

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), 3-Volumes, Kyiv, 1993–1999, (t. 1), (t. 2), (t. 3). by Polish forces. In July and August 1920, the

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captured Ternopil in the course of the Polish-Soviet War, and the city served as the capital of the short-lived Galician Soviet Socialist Republic. Under the terms of the Riga treaty, the area remained under Polish control. Kostel Ternopil

As a consequence of the

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in 1939, Ternopil was incorporated into the

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as part of Ternopol Oblast. On 2 July 1941, the city was occupied by the Nazis. Between then and July 1943, 10,000 Jews were killed by Nazi Germans with the help of ukrainian militia, and another 6,000 were rounded up and sent to

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. A few hundred others went to labor camps. During most of this time Jews lived in the Tarnopol Ghetto. Many Ukrainians were sent as

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to Germany. Following the act of restoration of the Ukrainian state, proclaimed by the

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on 30 June 1941, the

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(UPA) was active in the Ternopil region and battled for the independence of Ukraine, opposing the Polish underground

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and

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as well as the Nazis and the Soviets. In 1942 the Germans operated the Stalag 323

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for French POWs in the city. During the Soviet offensive in March and April 1944, the city was almost completely destroyed by Soviet artillery. It was occupied by the Red Army on 15 April 1944. After the second Soviet occupation, 85% of the city's living quarters were destroyed. Following the Potsdam Conference in 1945, Poland's borders were redrawn and Ternopil was incorporated into the Ukrainian SSR of the

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. The ethnic Polish population of the area was forcibly deported to postwar Poland. In the following decades, Ternopil was rebuilt in a typical Soviet style and only a few buildings were reconstructed. Following the

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, Ternopil became part of independent

, as a city of regional significance. On 31 December 2013, the 11th Artillery Brigade, the descendant of artillery units that had been based in the city since 1949, was disbanded. In 2020, as part of the administrative reform in Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Ternopil Oblast to three, the city was merged into Ternopil Raion. During the

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, Ternopil was struck by Russian missiles on 13 May 2023, minutes before Ternopil natives Tvorchi performed at the

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Geography

Climate

Ternopil has a moderate

continental climate Continental climates often have a significant annual variation in temperature (warm to hot summers and cold winters). They tend to occur in central and eastern parts of the three northern-tier continents (North America, Europe, and Asia), typi ...

with cold winters and warm summers.

Demographics

According to the 2001 Ukrainian census, Ternopil city and Ternopil Oblast are homogeneously populated by ethnic Ukrainians. Both Ternopil city and Ternopil Oblast are also homogeneously Ukrainian-speaking. National breakdown of

(total population 1,138,500): * Ukrainians: 1,113,500 (97.8%) * Russians: 14,250 (1.2%) * Poles: 3,800 (0.3%) Native languages in Ternopil: *

Ukrainian language Ukrainian (, ) is an East Slavic languages, East Slavic language, spoken primarily in Ukraine. It is the first language, first (native) language of a large majority of Ukrainians. Written Ukrainian uses the Ukrainian alphabet, a variant of t ...

: 94.8% *

Russian language Russian is an East Slavic languages, East Slavic language belonging to the Balto-Slavic languages, Balto-Slavic branch of the Indo-European languages, Indo-European language family. It is one of the four extant East Slavic languages, and is ...

: 3.37% *

Belarusian language Belarusian (, ) is an East Slavic languages, East Slavic language. It is one of the two Languages of Belarus, official languages in Belarus, the other being Russian language, Russian. It is also spoken in parts of Russia, Lithuania, Latvia, Polan ...

: 0.07% *

Polish language Polish (, , or simply , ) is a West Slavic languages, West Slavic language of the Lechitic languages, Lechitic subgroup, within the Indo-European languages, Indo-European language family, and is written in the Latin script. It is primarily spo ...

: 0.04% According to a survey conducted by the

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in 2023, 98% of the city's population spoke Ukrainian at home and 1% spoke Russian.

Economy

Ternopil is a centre for the

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food industry The food industry is a complex, global network of diverse businesses that supplies most of the food consumed by the world's population. The food industry today has become highly diversified, with manufacturing ranging from small, traditional, ...

, radio-electronic and construction industries. In the Soviet and early post-Soviet period, a harvester plant and a porcelain factory operated in the city.

Transport

Ternopil is an important railway hub with connections to most major railway stations of Ukraine. The city lies on the M12 international highway connecting western and central regions of Ukraine. Trolleybus lines and a bus station are active in the city. Water transport operates on Ternopil artificial lake mostly for tourist purposes. An airport was opened for civilian traffic in 1985, but ceased commercial operations in 2010.

Higher education

Universities include: * West Ukrainian National University * Ternopil Ivan Pul'uj National Technical University * Ternopil Volodymyr Hnatyuk National Pedagogical University * Ternopil State Medical University

Main sights

* Ternopil Regional Art Museum * Ternopil Drama Theater *

Church of the Exaltation of the Cross, Ternopil Church of the Holy Cross (Vozdvyzhenska, Zdvyzhenska, Nadstavna) is the oldest church in Ternopil in western Ukraine. It is an architectural monument A monument is a type of structure that was explicitly created to commemorate a person or e ...

* Ukrainian Greek Catholic Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception of The Blessed Virgin Mary * The sanctuary of Our Lady of Zarvanytsia with a miraculous icon of the 13th century called icon of the Mother of God of Zarvanytsia, sanctuary of Greek-Catholic rite. Located about 40 km from Ternopil, celebrated on 22 July.

Notable people

Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz (; 12 December 1890 – 12 April 1963) was a Polish philosopher and logician, a prominent figure in the Lwów–Warsaw school of logic. He originated many novel ideas in semantics. Among these was categorial grammar, a ...

(1890–1963), Polish philosopher and

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, researched

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Henryk Baranowski Henryk Baranowski (9 February 1943 – 27 July 2013) was a Polish theatre, opera and film director, actor, stage designer, playwright, screenwriter and poet. He is best known for his starring role in the film '' Dekalog: One'' directed by Krzysz ...

(1943–2013), Polish theatre, opera and film director, actor, playwright and poet * Vasyl Barvinsky (1888–1963), Ukrainian composer, pianist, conductor and musicologist * Eugeniusz Baziak (1890–1962), Archbishop of

and apostolic administrator of

. * Natalia Buchynska (born 1977), singer, brought up in Ternopil. *

Mykola Bychok Mykola Bychok, (; born 13 February 1980) is a Ukrainian Greek Catholic prelate who has served as Eparch of Saints Peter and Paul of Melbourne, Australia since 2020. Pope Francis made him a cardinal on 7 December 2024, making him the youngest m ...

(born 1980), Ukrainian Greek Catholic cardinal and bishop * Vitaly Derekh (1987–2022), Ukrainian journalist and soldier * Mariia Dilai (born 1980), Ukrainian artist, designer, and social activist * Alexandre Eremenko (born 1954), Ukrainian-American mathematician * Daria Chubata (born 1940), Ukrainian physician, author and social activist * Mykola Chubatyi (1889-1975), historian of Ukrainian Church * Cyryl Czarkowski-Golejewski (1885–1940), aristocratic Polish landowner and

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victim * Charlotte Eisler (1894-1970), Austrian singer and pianist with the

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* Kornel Filipowicz (1913–1990), Polish novelist, poet, screenwriter and short story writer * Franciszek Kleeberg (1888–1941), Polish general in the

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* Bohdan Levkiv (1950–2021), Ukrainian politician and mayor of Ternopil from 2002 to 2006 * Pepi Litman (1874–1930), cross-dressing female Yiddish vaudeville singer *

Kazimierz Michałowski Kazimierz Józef Marian Michałowski (14 December 1901, in Tarnopol – 1 January 1981, in Warsaw) was a Polish archaeologist and Egyptologist, Art history, art historian, member of the Polska Akademia Nauk, Polish Academy of Sciences, profe ...

, (1901–1981), Polish archaeologist,

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and art historian *

Serhiy Nadal Serhiy Vitaliiovych Nadal (; born 1 January 1975) is a Ukrainian politician. He is the mayor of Ternopil and head of Ternopil urban hromada in western Ukraine. A member of the Svoboda party, Nadal has been mayor since 2010. Nadal's 2010 elect ...

(born 1975), Ukrainian politician and mayor of Ternopil since 2010 * Yuriy Oliynyk (1931–2021), Ukrainian composer, concert pianist and professor of music in the United States Stecko

Jakub Karol Parnas Jakub Karol Parnas, also known as Yakov Oskarovich Parnas (; January 16, 1884 – January 29, 1949) was a prominent Polish–Soviet biochemist who contributed to the discovery of the Embden–Meyerhof–Parnas pathway, together with Otto F ...

(1884–1949), biochemist, born in Ternopil * Joseph Perl, (1773–1839), Ashkenazi Jewish educator and writer, a scion of the

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* Simhah Pinsker (1801–1864), Polish-Jewish scholar and archeologist * Antoni Reichenberg (1825–1903), Polish priest, Jesuit, and artist * Rudolf Pöch (1870–1921), doctor and anthropologist; pioneer photographer and cinematographer * Roza Pomerantz-Meltzer (1880–1934), Polish writer and novelist based in Lviv and politician *

Solomon Judah Loeb Rapoport Solomon Judah Loeb Rapoport (; June 1, 1786 – October 15, 1867) was a Galician and Czech rabbi and Jewish scholar. Rapoport was known by an acronym "Shir", שי"ר occasionally שיל"ר, formed by the initial letters of his Hebrew n ...

(1786–1867), a Galician and Czech rabbi and Jewish scholar * Karol Rathaus (1895—1954), Polish-Austrian-American modernist composer * Eduard Romanyuta (born 1992), Ukrainian singer, songwriter, actor and TV presenter * Baron Lajos Simonyi de Barbács et Vitézvár (1824–1894), Hungarian politician *

Ruslan Stefanchuk Ruslan Oleksiyovych Stefanchuk (; born 29 October 1975) is a Ukrainian politician and lawyer serving as the chairman of the Verkhovna Rada since October 2021. Stefanchuk was touted as the ideologue of Volodymyr Zelenskyy's election campaign in ...

(born 1975), Ukrainian politician, party chairman and lawyer * Yaroslav Stetsko (1912–1986), leader of

(OUN) from 1968 * Oleh Syrotyuk (born 1978), Ukrainian politician, Governor of Ternopil Oblast in 2014 *

Jan Tarnowski Jan Amor Tarnowski (Latin: Joannes Tarnovius; 1488 – 16 May 1561) was a Polish nobleman, knight, military commander, military theoretician, and statesman of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland. He was Grand Crown Hetman from 1527, and wa ...

(1488-1561), Polish general and nobleman, founder of Ternopil (as Tarnopol). * Judd L. Teller (1912–1972), Jewish author, social historian and poet; emigrated to the United States in 1921 * Tvorchi,

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duo that represented Ukraine in the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 * Baroness Adelma Vay (1840–1925),

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and pioneer of

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in Slovenia and Hungary

Sport

* Olga Babiy (born 1989), Ukrainian chess player and Woman Grandmaster * Petr Badlo (born 1976), Ukrainian football manager and former footballer with 470 club caps * Olha Maslivets (born 1978), Russian windsurfer who competed at four Summer Olympics * Ihor Semenyna (born 1989), Ukrainian football midfielder with 330 club caps

People from Ternopil Oblast

Aleksander Brückner Aleksander Brückner (; 29 January 1856 – 24 May 1939) was a Polish scholar of Slavic languages and literature (Slavistics), philologist, lexicographer, and historian of literature. He is among the most notable Slavicists of the late 19th ...

, (1856 in Berezhany – 1939), Polish scholar of Slavic languages and literature * Volodymyr Hnatiuk (1871 in Velesniv, Buchach – 1926), Ukrainian writer, literary scholar, journalist and ethnographer *

Bohdan Lepky Bohdan Teodor Nestor Sylvestrovych Lepky, (, 9 November 1872 – 21 July 1941) was a Ukrainian writer, poet, scholar, public figure, and artist. He was born on 9 November 1872, in the village of Kryvenke, in the same house where the Polish ...

(1872-1941), Ukrainian writer, poet and artist *

Ivan Horbachevsky Ivan Yakovych Horbachevsky (; 15 May 1854 – 24 May 1942), also known as Jan Horbaczewski, Johann Horbaczewski or Ivan Horbaczewski, was an Austrian chemist and politician of Ukrainian origin. Biography Ivan Horbachevsky was born on 15 May ...

(1854-1942), Ukrainian chemist and politician active in

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, Minister of Healthcare of

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Josyf Slipyj Josyf Slipyi (, born as ; 17 February 1892 – 7 September 1984) was a Major Archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and a cardinal of the Catholic Church. Life Genealogy Josyf Slipyj's father, Joannes (Ivan) Slipyj, was born 17 ...

(1892-1984), Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest, Metropolitan of Lviv and Halych * Solomiya Krushelnytska (1872 in Biliavyntsi — 1952), Ukrainian

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(1872 in Krehulets – 1941), Ukrainian writer, poet, scholar, public figure, and artist * Ivan Pului (1845 in Hrymailiv – 1918), physicist and inventor, developed use of X-rays for

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* Casimir Zeglen (1869 near Tarnopol - 1927), Polish-American engineer, inventor of commercial bulletproof vest * Methodius (Kudriakov) (1949-2015), metropolitan of the

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. * Serhiy Prytula (born 1981 in Zbarazh), Ukrainian TV show host, political activist, founder of Charity Foundation of Serhiy Prytula * Volodymyr Chornobay (born 1954), Ukrainian artist * Karolina Shiino (born 1997), Japanese model and disgraced winner of the 2024 Miss Nippon pageant

Lived in Ternopil

* Sofia Yablonska (1907-1971), Ukrainian-French travel writer, photographer and architect *

Les Kurbas Oleksandr-Zenon Stepanovych Kurbas (; 24 February 1887 – 30 November 1937), was a Ukrainians, Ukrainian movie and theater director. He is considered by many to be the most important Ukrainian theater director of the 20th century. He formed, ...

(1887-1937), Ukrainian theatre director and actor, founder of the first Ukrainian theatre in Ternopil

International relations

Ternopil is twinned with: *

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since 2023 *

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''(since 1991)'' *

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''(since 1992)'' *

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* Prudentopolis,

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Former twin towns include: *

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Stadium naming controversy

In 2021, Ternopil created international outrage, especially in the Jewish community, by deciding to name a city stadium in honor of Nazi collaborator

Roman Shukhevych Roman-Taras Osypovych Shukhevych (, also known by his pseudonym, Tur and Taras Chuprynka; 30 June 1907 – 5 March 1950) was a Ukrainian nationalism, Ukrainian nationalist and a military leader of the nationalist Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) ...

. Shukhevych was the military leader of the

during World War II and was known for his collaboration with the Nazi regime as well as his responsibility for the

massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia The Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (; ) were carried out in Occupation of Poland (1939–1945), German-occupied Poland by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), with the support of parts of the local Ukrainians, Ukrainian popu ...

. As a result, the City Council of

decided to suspend its partnership with Ternopil. Joel Lion, the Israeli Ambassador to Ukraine, expressed Israel’s strong objection to the city's choice to name the stadium in honor of Roman Shukhevych. Lion wrote, ''"We strongly condemn the decision of Ternopil city council to name the City Stadium after the infamous Hauptman (Captain) of the SS 201st Schutzmannschaft Roman Shukhevych and demand the immediate cancellation of this decision"''. The Eastern Europe Director of the

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, Efraim Zuroff wrote, ''"It is fully understandable that Ternopil seeks to honor those who fought against Soviet Communism, but not those behind the mass murder of innocent fellow citizens."'' in a statement attempting to convince Ternopil to reconsider the ''"renaming of its stadium in honor of Nazi collaborator, Hauptmann of the SS Schutzmannschaft 201, Roman Shukhevych, an active participant in the mass murder of Jews and Poles in World War II."''

Russo-Ukrainian War

In June 2022, due to the full-scale Russian invasion and missile strikes from the territory of

, Ternopil suspended its partnership with the city of

Festivals

An international open-air music festival called has been held annually near Ternopil for 2–4 days in July since 2013.

Notes

References

Sources

* A. Bresler, Joseph Perl, ''Warsaw'', 1879, passim; * '' Allg. Zeit. des Jud.'' 1839, iii. 606; * * J. H. Gurland, ''Le-Ḳarot ha-Gezerot'', p. 22,

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, 1892; * * Orgelbrandt, in ''Encyklopedia Powszechna'', xiv. 409;

External links

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Historical footage of war damages at Ternopil (1917)

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