Ustyluh
Ustyluh or Ustilug (Ukrainian: Устилу́г; Polish: Uściług; Yiddish: אוסטילע, romanized: Ustile) is a small city in Volodymyr Raion, Volyn Oblast, Ukraine. It is situated on the east side of the border with Poland, and 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) west of the city of Volodymyr. Population: 2,060 (2022 estimate).[1]
Ustyluh
Устилуг Uściług • אוסטיל | |
|---|---|
 Igor Stravinsky house in Ustyluh | |
 Seal | |
  Ustyluh  Ustyluh | |
| Coordinates: 50°51′36″N 24°09′25″E | |
| Country |  Ukraine |
| Oblast |  Volyn Oblast |
| Raion | Volodymyr Raion |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Viktor Polishchuk |
| Elevation | 188 m (617 ft) |
| Population (2022) | |
| • Total | 2,060 |
Igor Stravinsky had an estate in Ustyluh and visited it frequently between 1890 and 1914. His mansion is now a museum.
History
Until the Russian Revolution of 1917, it was a settlement in Vladimir-Volynsky Uyezd of Volhynian Governorate of the Russian Empire; from 1921 to 1939 it was part of Wołyń Voivodeship of Poland. It has been a town since 1940.[2][3]
Prior to World War II it had a population of at least 3,200 Jews. The Germans bombarded Ustyluh heavily on the morning of 22 June 1941, the day of the outbreak of war between the Soviet Union and Germany. The German Army conquered the town toward evening. The Germans established a Jewish ghetto, a Judenrat, and a ghetto police force, and used the town′s Jews for slave labor. From time to time the Germans took groups of Jewish youth to a valley next to the Jewish cemetery and shot them. In October 1941 alone, the Germans killed 900 Jews from the town intelligentsia. The Germans transferred the remaining Jews of Ustyluh to the Volodymyr ghetto between September 1 and 15, 1942, and murdered them there along with the local Jews in pits prepared for the killings in the village of Piatydnie.[4]
References
- 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.
- Устилуг // Советский энциклопедический словарь. редколл., гл. ред. А. М. Прохоров. 4-е изд. М., «Советская энциклопедия», 1986. стр.1394
- Устилуг // Большой энциклопедический словарь (в 2-х тт.). / редколл., гл. ред. А. М. Прохоров. том 2. М., "Советская энциклопедия", 1991. стр.533
- "Remember Jewish Austila". 2018-07-21.
- Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989 г. Численность городского населения союзных республик, их территориальных единиц, городских поселений и городских районов по полу