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| Coordinates:50°14′24″N24°08′22″E / 50.24000°N 24.13944°E /50.24000; 24.13944 | |
| Country |  Ukraine |
| Oblast | Lviv Oblast |
| Raion | Sheptytskyi Raion |
| Hromada | Velyki Mosty urban hromada |
| Population (2022) | |
• Total | 6,286 |
| • Density | 7,738/km2 (20,040/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
| Website | www |
Velyki Mosty (Ukrainian:Великі Мости,IPA:[weˈlɪkimoˈstɪ]ⓘ,lit. 'Great Bridges';Polish:Mosty Wielkie;Yiddish:גרויס־מאָסטע,romanized: Groys-Moste) is a city inSheptytskyi Raion ofLviv Oblast (region) of westernUkraine. It hosts the administration ofVelyki Mosty urban hromada, one of thehromadas of Ukraine.[1] Its population is6,286 (2022 estimate).[2]
Kingdom of Poland 1472–1772
Habsburg monarchy 1772–1918
Second Polish Republic 1918–1939
Soviet Union 1939–1941 (occupation)
Nazi Germany 1941–1944 (occupation)
Soviet Union 1944–1991
In theKingdom of Poland, the village of Mosty was a royal property, with its ownstarostas. The village itself was established in 1472, and was part ofBelz Voivodeship in theLesser Poland Province. In the late 15th century, Mosty was ransacked and destroyed in aCrimean Tatars raid, and in July 1497, during the Moldavian expedition ofJohn I Albert, a unit ofTeutonic Knights underJohann von Tiefen, called upon by the Polish king, marched through the village. On 23 July 1549, during the period known as thePolish Golden Age, Mosty receivedMagdeburg rights. It was aroyal town. Following the order of KingSigismund II Augustus, anobleman Andrzej Rokicki became the first localwójt. Mosty enjoyed several royal privileges, issued in the years 1550, 1553, 1566, 1576, 1583, 1604. The town also became the seat of astarosta.
Following theFirst Partition of Poland (1772), the town became part of AustrianGalicia.[3] In 1846, a complex of military barracks was built in Mosty. In theSecond Polish Republic, the Central Police Academy was located here.
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The Jewish population was important in the town beforeWorld War II.[4]
Following the joint German-Sovietinvasion of Poland, which started World War II in September 1939, the town was initiallyoccupied by the Soviet Union. In 1939, the Soviets carried out a massacre of the staff and trainees of the local Polish police academy.[5] Afterwards, as of June 29, 1941, Germans occupied the town and kept the Jews prisoners in aghetto using them asforced labour before murdering them all. In early July, 1941, local residents burned 19 Jews in thesynagogue. Throughout the occupation, Ukrainian police assisted in most of the murders of their Jewish neighbors.[6][7][8] The town commander, Captain Johann Kroupa in the military-engineer division of theWehrmacht, protected Jews from death during the first part of the occupation, employing more than 2,000, including 1,200 women, and helping forge work permits for some. He was later court-martialed for protecting Jews and ended up in Soviet captivity.[9][10]
Until 18 July 2020, Velyki Mosty belonged toSokal Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Lviv Oblast to seven. The area of Sokal Raion was merged into Chervonohrad Raion (modern Sheptytskyi Raion).[11][12]
Currently, Mosty has a local branch of theAssociation of Polish Culture of the Lviv Land.
Currently, as of 2021, the population of the town is 6,312 people.
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| Year | Population | Change |
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| 1880 | ~4,000 | ~ |
| 1890 | 3,565 | -10.87% |
| 1959 | 3,789 | +5.91% |
| 1970 | 3,920 | +3.46% |
| 1979 | 4,516 | +15.2% |
| 1989 | 5,494 | +21.66% |
| 1992 | 5,800 | +5.57% |
| 1998 | 6,100 | +5.17% |
| 2001 | 5,925 | -2.87% |
| 2003 | 5,877 | -0.81% |
| 2004 | 5,882 | +0.08% |
| 2005 | 5,894 | +0.2% |
| 2006 | 5,934 | +0.69% |
| 2007 | 5,960 | +0.44% |
| 2008 | 5,971 | +0.18% |
| 2009 | 5,996 | +0.42 |
| 2010 | 6,010 | +0.23% |
| 2011 | 6,037 | +0.45% |
| 2012 | 6,094 | +0.94% |
| 2013 | 6,121 | +0.44% |
| 2014 | 6,132 | +0.18% |
| 2015 | 6,166 | +0.55% |
| 2016 | 6,213 | +0.76% |
| 2017 | 6,224 | +0.18% |
| 2018 | 6,251 | +0.43% |
| 2019 | 6,298 | +0.75% |
| 2021 | 6,312 | +0.22% |
Among people born here are photographerWlodzimierz Puchalski, mathematicianWlodzimierz Stozek and Austrian painter Siegfried Weyr.
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