Luzhany

Luzhany
Лужани
Rural settlement
Luzhany Voznesenska church
Luzhany Voznesenska church
Luzhany is located in Chernivtsi Oblast
Luzhany
Luzhany
Location of Luzhany in Ukraine
Luzhany is located in Ukraine
Luzhany
Luzhany
Luzhany (Ukraine)
Coordinates: 48°21′47″N 25°45′43″E / 48.36306°N 25.76194°E / 48.36306; 25.76194
Country Ukraine
Oblast Chernivtsi Oblast
RaionChernivtsi Raion
First mentioned1452
Urban status since1968
Government
 • Town HeadNataliya Katriuk
Elevation
[1]
179 m (587 ft)
Population
 (2001)
 • Total4,744
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code
59342
Area code+380 3736
Websitehttp://rada.gov.ua/

Luzhany (Ukrainian: Лужани; Romanian: Lujeni; Yiddish: לוזשאן) is a rural settlement in Chernivtsi Raion, Chernivtsi Oblast, western Ukraine. It belongs to Mamaivtsi rural hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.[2]

The settlement lies on the banks of the Prut River, about 13 km (8.1 mi) northwest of the regional capital Chernivtsi. As of the 2001 census, the town's population is 4,744.[3] Current population: 4,781 (2022 estimate).[4]

History

First mentioned in a 1452 deed, Luzhany belonged to the Danubian Principality of Moldavia until 1774/75, when upon the Russo-Turkish War its northwestern parts (the Bukovina) were ceded to the Habsburg monarchy. Incorporated into the Austrian Duchy of Bukovina from 1849, the area was incorporated into Greater Romania after World War I. In 1940, as a result of a secret clause of the Molotov–Ribbentrop pact between Hitler and Stalin, the Romanian state was forced to cede Northern Bukovina to the Soviet Union.

In 1968, Luzhany received urban-type settlement status.[5]

Luzhany became part of independent Ukraine in 1991.

Until 18 July 2020, Luzhany belonged to Kitsman Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Chernivtsi Oblast to three. The area of Kitsman Raion was split between Chernivtsi Raion and Vyzhnytsia Raion, with Luzhany being transferred to Chernivtsi Raion.[6][7]

On 26 January 2024, a new law entered into force which abolished the status of urban-type settlement in Ukraine, and Luzhany became a rural settlement.[8]

Notable people

See also

References

  1. ^ "Luzhany (Chernivtsi Oblast, Kitsman Raion)". weather.in.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 20 January 2012.
  2. ^ "Мамаевская громада" (in Russian). Портал об'єднаних громад України.
  3. ^ "Luzhany, Chernivtsi Oblast, Kitsman Raion". Regions of Ukraine and their Structure (in Ukrainian). Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 20 January 2012.
  4. ^ Чисельність наявного населення України на 1 січня 2022 [Number of Present Population of Ukraine, as of January 1, 2022] (PDF) (in Ukrainian and English). Kyiv: State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 July 2022.
  5. ^ Катрюк, Н. М.; Лаєвська, М. І. "Лужани". Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine (in Ukrainian). Vol. 18. NASU Institute of Encyclopaedic Research. ISBN 978-966-02-2074-4.
  6. ^ "Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ". Голос України (in Ukrainian). 2020-07-18. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
  7. ^ "Нові райони: карти + склад" (in Ukrainian). Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України.
  8. ^ "Что изменится в Украине с 1 января". glavnoe.in.ua (in Russian). 1 January 2024.
  9. ^ "Shelepnytskyi, Yuriy". National-Football-Teams.com. Retrieved 20 January 2012.

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