Ustyluh

Ustylúh (Ukrainian: Устилу́г, Polish: Uściług, Yiddish: אוסטילע‎ Ustile) is a town in Volodymyr-Volynskyi Raion, Volyn Oblast, Ukraine. It is situated on the east side of the Ukrainian-Polish border, and 8 miles west of Volodymyr-Volynskyi. Population: 2,096 (2020 est.)[1]

Ustyluh

Устилу́г

Uściług (in Polish)
City
Igor Stravinsky house in Ustyluh
Seal
Ustyluh
Ustyluh
Coordinates: 50°51′36″N 24°09′25″E
Country Ukraine
Oblast Volyn Oblast
RaionVolodymyr-Volynskyi Raion
Government
 • MayorViktor Rostyslavovych Polishchuk
Elevation
188 m (617 ft)
Population
 (2020)
 • Total2,096

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.

Town since 1940[2][3]

Prior to World War II it had a population of at least 3,200 Jews. The Germans bombarded Ustilug 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 Ustilug to the Volodymyr-Volynskyi 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]

In January 1989 the population was 2404 people.[5][3]

References
  1. "Чисельність наявного населення України (Actual population of Ukraine)" (PDF) (in Ukrainian). State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
  2. Устилуг // Советский энциклопедический словарь. редколл., гл. ред. А. М. Прохоров. 4-е изд. М., «Советская энциклопедия», 1986. стр.1394
  3. Устилуг // Большой энциклопедический словарь (в 2-х тт.). / редколл., гл. ред. А. М. Прохоров. том 2. М., "Советская энциклопедия", 1991. стр.533
  4. "Remember Jewish Austila". 2018-07-21.
  5. Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989 г. Численность городского населения союзных республик, их территориальных единиц, городских поселений и городских районов по полу


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