Liubar

Liubar (Ukrainian: Любар) is an urban-type settlement in Liubar Raion, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine. Population: 2,056 (2020 est.)[1]

Liubar
Urban-type settlement
Country Ukraine
Province Zhytomyr Oblast
DistrictLiubar Raion
Area
 • Total222 km2 (86 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)
 • Total2,056
 • Density9.3/km2 (24/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code
13100

History
Synagogue of the town (around 1912/1914).

A Jewish community lived here since centuries.[2] A wooden synagogue was erected in 1491. It was destroyed during pogroms perpetrated by the cossacks in the middle of the 17th century.

In 1793 - 1917 it was a town in Novograd-Volynsky Uyezd in Volhynian Governorate of the Russian Empire.

At the end of the 19th century, the Jewish inhabitants represent 43% of the total population. 9 synagogues, a Jewish theater, a Jewish hospital and many shops are own by member of the community. In 1920, the soldiers of the 1st Cavalry Army (a formation of the Red Army) perpetrated a pogrom killing about 60 people and hurting 180.[3]

A local newspaper is published here since August 1931.[4]

On July 6, 1941, Wehrmacht occupied this town. Germans sent the Jews into a ghetto. In August 1941, mass executions killed around 300 people in the nearby forest. On September, around 1 300 Jews from the city and surroundings villages are murdered by an Einsatzgruppen including Ukrainians Hilfspolizei.[5]

In January 1989 the population was 2656 people[6]

In January 2013 the population was 2179 people.[7]

References
  1. "Чисельність наявного населення України (Actual population of Ukraine)" (PDF) (in Ukrainian). State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
  2. http://www.rujen.ru/index.php/%D0%9B%D0%AE%D0%91%D0%90%D0%A0
  3. http://www.sovsekretno.ru/articles/id/228
  4. № 2729. Заветы Ильича = Заповiти Iллiча // Летопись периодических и продолжающихся изданий СССР 1986 - 1990. Часть 2. Газеты. М., «Книжная палата», 1994. стр.358
  5. http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/he/research/ghettos_encyclopedia/ghetto_details.asp?cid=541
  6. Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989 г. Численность городского населения союзных республик, их территориальных единиц, городских поселений и городских районов по полу
  7. Чисельність наявного населення України на 1 січня 2013 року. Державна служба статистики України. Київ, 2013. стор.59


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