Variazh Explained

Variazh
Native Name:Варяж
Native Name Lang:uk
Settlement Type:Village
Pushpin Map:Ukraine Lviv Oblast#Ukraine
Pushpin Map Caption:Location of Variazh in Ukraine
Coordinates:50.5169°N 24.0925°W
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Type1:Province
Subdivision Type2:District
Subdivision Name2:Chervonohrad Raion
Established Title:First mentioned
Established Date:1419
Established Date1:1538
Leader Title:Village Head
Leader Name:Yuriy Horodko (NRU)
Unit Pref:Metric
Area Total Km2:2.17
Elevation Footnotes:[1]
Elevation M:202
Population Total:888
Population As Of:2001
Population Density Km2:auto
Timezone:EET
Utc Offset:+2
Timezone Dst:EEST
Utc Offset Dst:+3
Postal Code Type:Postal code
Postal Code:80014
Area Code Type:Area code
Area Code:+380 3257
Website:http://rada.gov.ua/

Variazh (Ukrainian: Варяж; Polish: Waręż) is a village (former town (currently) in Chervonohrad Raion (district) of Lviv Oblast (province) in western Ukraine. Its population is 888 as of the 2001 Ukrainian Census.[2] The village is located close to the border with Poland, near the Polish village of Uśmierz. It belongs to Sokal urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.[3]

History

The first written documents date the settlement back to in 1419 as Waręż.[4] In 1538, the settlement was granted the Magdeburg rights.[4] [5] It formed part of the Kingdom of Poland until the First Partition of Poland in 1772, when it was annexed by Austria.

Waręż had a significant population of Jews living in the city: in 1880, there were 880 Jews; in 1900, there were 964 Jews; in 1921, there were 520 Jews.

Following the restoration of independent Poland, Waręż was a part of the Polish Lwów Voivodeship (Sokal County) and – since 1934 – seat of the Gmina Waręż, a rural administrative district of Poland[6] (Waręż does not appear on lists of towns since at least 1931,[7] [8] [9] and prior to this it only had market town status (miasteczko), which was considered a rural unit in an administrative sense[10]).

Following the joint German-Soviet invasion of Poland, which started World War II in September 1939, the town was occupied by the Germany until 1944. During the Holocaust, Waręż's entire Jewish population was killed.[11]

During the war, the settlement became a part of the Hrubieszów County,[12] which after the war returned to the Lublin Voivodeship. During the 1951 Polish–Soviet territorial exchange, Waręż along with most of the pre-war Sokal County was transferred from the People's Republic of Poland to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.[13] There, the settlement was renamed to Novoukrainka (Ukrainian: Новоукраїнка),[2] a name which it kept until 1989 when it was reverted to its original—albeit Ukrainian variant of the name, "Variazh."

Until 18 July 2020, Variazh belonged to Sokal Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Lviv Oblast to seven. The area of Sokal Raion was merged into Chervonohrad Raion.[14] [15]

People from Variazh

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Variazh (Lviv Oblast, Sokal Raion). weather.in.ua. 15 February 2012.
  2. Web site: Variazh, Lviv Oblast, Sokal Raion. Regions of Ukraine and their Structure. Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. 15 February 2012. Ukrainian.
  3. Web site: Сокальская городская громада . Портал об'єднаних громад України . ru.
  4. Web site: Variazh. karpaty.info. 16 February 2012. Ukrainian.
  5. Web site: Variazh. Architectural and Natural Monuments of Ukraine. 16 February 2012. Ukrainian.
  6. http://isap.sejm.gov.pl/DetailsServlet?id=WDU19340640554 Dz. U. z 1934 r. Nr 64, poz. 554 - Rozporządzenie Ministra Spraw Wewnętrznych z dnia 14 lipca 1934 r. o podziale powiatu sokalskiego w województwie lwowskiem na gminy wiejskie
  7. Drugi Powszechny Spis Ludności z dnia 9 grudnia 1931 r., GUS, Warszawa, 1932
  8. Podział administracyjny Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej: Praca zespołowa pod redakcją prof. Stanisława Srokowskiego. Warszawa: Biblioteka Samorządowca Nr 77, 1948.
  9. Informator adresowy miast i gmin wiejskich Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej. Warszawa: Instytut Wydawniczy Kolumna, 1948.
  10. Skorowidz miejscowości Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej - Tom XIII - Województwo Lwowskie, Główny Urząd Statystyczny Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej, Warszawa 1924
  11. Encyclopedia: Variazh. Russian Jewish Encyclopedia. 16 February 2012. Russian.
  12. Web site: Amtliches Gemeinde- und Dorfverzeichnis fuer das GG . 2013-06-21 . 2021-04-10 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210410133031/http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/w/index.php?title=Datei:Generalgouv_gemeindevz_1943.djvu&page=1 . dead .
  13. Sylwester Fertacz, Krojenie mapy Polski: Bolesna granica. Alfa. Retrieved from the Internet Archive on 14 November 2011
  14. News: Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ.. 2020-10-03. 2020-07-18. Голос України. uk.
  15. Web site: Нові райони: карти + склад . Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України . Ukrainian.