Liubeshiv

Rural locality in Volyn Oblast, Ukraine

Rural settlement in Volyn Oblast, Ukraine

51°46′N 25°30′E / 51.767°N 25.500°E / 51.767; 25.500Country

UkraineOblast

Volyn OblastRaionKamin-Kashyrskyi RaionFirst mentioned1484Area

• Total339 km² (131 sq mi)Population

(2022)

• Total5,702 • Density17/km² (44/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+2 (EET) • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

Liubeshiv (Ukrainian: Любешів; Polish: Lubieszów; Belarusian: Любяшоў, romanized: Lubiašoŭ; Yiddish: ליבישויוו) is a rural settlement in Kamin-Kashyrskyi Raion, Volyn Oblast, western Ukraine. It is located in the historic region of Polesia. It is the administrative seat of Liubeshiv settlement hromada. Population: 5,702 (2022 estimate).^[1]

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 9 November 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^[2]

Until 26 January 2024, Liubeshiv was designated urban-type settlement. On this day, a new law entered into force which abolished this status, and Liubeshiv became a rural settlement.^[3]

Liubeshiv in 1915
Monument commemorating the victims of the 1943 massacre

Notable people

Taras Mykhalyk, retired Ukrainian footballer.

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.
^ Grzegorz Rąkowski, "Wołyń", page 77
^ "Что изменится в Украине с 1 января". glavnoe.in.ua (in Russian). 1 January 2024.