Liubeshiv

Liubeshiv
Urban-type settlement
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Coordinates: 51°46′N 25°30′E
Country	Ukraine
Province	Volyn Oblast
District	Kamin-Kashyrskyi Raion
First mentioned	1484
Area
• Total	339 km2 (131 sq mi)
Population  (2022)
• Total	5,702
• Density	17/km2 (44/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)

Liubeshiv (Ukrainian: Любешів, Polish: Lubieszów, Belarusian: Любяшоў, Yiddish: ליבישויוו) is an urban-type settlement in Kamin-Kashyrskyi Raion of Volyn Oblast, in the historic region of the Polesia. It is an administrative seat of Liubeshiv settlement hromada. Population: 5,702 (2022 est.)

History

Historical affiliations

Grand Duchy of Lithuania 1484–1569
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth 1569–1795
Russian Empire 1795–1917
Ukrainian People's Republic 1917-1918, 1918-1919
Second Polish Republic 1919–1945
   Soviet Union 1939–1941 (occupation)
   Nazi Germany 1941–1944 (occupation)
   Soviet Union 1944–1945 (occupation)
Soviet Union 1945–1991
Ukraine 1991–present

Lubieszów was first mentioned in 1484. It was a private town of Grand Duchy of Lithuania, later part of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. After the Partitions of Poland it was annexed by Russia.

On November 9, 1943, 300 Poles were murdered by the Ukrainians as part of the genocide of Poles in Volhynia. A 2013 monument on the local Polish cemetery commemorates the victims

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  Liubeshiv in 1915

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  Monument commemorating the victims of the 1943 massacre

Notable people

• Taras Mykhalyk, retired Ukrainian footballer.

External links

• Liubeshiv at the Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia