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Olevsk

Coordinates: 51°13′N 27°39′E / 51.217°N 27.650°E / 51.217; 27.650
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Olevsk
Олевськ
City
Downtown Olevsk
Downtown Olevsk
Flag of Olevsk
Coat of arms of Olevsk
Olevsk is located in Zhytomyr Oblast
Olevsk
Olevsk
Olevsk is located in Ukraine
Olevsk
Olevsk
Coordinates: 51°13′N 27°39′E / 51.217°N 27.650°E / 51.217; 27.650
Country Ukraine
OblastZhytomyr Oblast
RaionKorosten Raion
Population
 (2021)
 • Total
10,226
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

Olevsk (Template:Lang-uk, translit. Olevsk) is a city in Korosten Raion, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine. Population: 10,226 (2021 est.)[1]

History

Historical affiliations

Olevsk was first mentioned in 1488. In 1641 Olevsk was granted Magdeburg city rights by Polish King Władysław IV Vasa.

Later it became a town in Volhynian Governorate of the Russian Empire.

During World War II on November 15 or 21, 1941, members of Taras Bulba-Borovets' Ukrainian People's Revolutionary Army collaborated with the German administration in taking more than 500 Jews from Olevsk to Varvarivka, where they were murdered.[2]

References

  1. ^ Чисельність наявного населення України на 1 січня 2021 [Number of Present Population of Ukraine, as of January 1, 2021] (PDF) (in Ukrainian and English). Kyiv: State Statistics Service of Ukraine.
  2. ^ McBride, Jared (July 20, 2016). "Ukrainian Holocaust Perpetrators Are Being Honored in Place of Their Victims". The Tablet. Retrieved July 22, 2016.