Kalush, Ukraine

Kalush Калуш
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Kalush Location of Kalush, Ukraine
Coordinates: 49°02′39″N 24°21′35″E
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast
Raion	Kalush city
Area
• Total	65 km2 (25 sq mi)
Population
• Total	63,800
• Density	1,052.02/km2 (2,724.7/sq mi)
Area code(s)	+380 3472
Sister cities	Dolyna
Website	http://kalush.net

Kalush (Ukrainian: Калуш, Polish: Kałusz, translit. Kalush) is a city set in the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains, in the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (province) of western Ukraine.

It is a separate municipality subordinate to the oblast, as well as the administrative centre of the surrounding Kalush Raion (district).

Important local industries include food processing, clothing manufacture, chemicals, handicrafts, woodcarving, and concrete. The city is notorious for its bleaching products that locally became referred kalushanka.

History

Historical populations
Year	Pop.	±%
2007	67,180	—
2008	67,150	−0.0%
2009	67,207	+0.1%
2010	67,453	+0.4%
Note: 2010 data is valid thru October Source: Regional Statistics Office

1889, Kałusz

The earliest known mention of Kalush is the accounting of a settlement of that name in a Halychyna chronicle dated May 27, 1437 and until mid of the 16th century was part of Halych Land. Kalush was incorporated as a city in 1549 by Mikołaj Sieniawski on the authority of the Polish Crown. The city was part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Austria-Hungary and Second Polish Republic. The city still contains an old rathaus which declared as the National Landmark of Architecture #591. The previous rathaus was destroyed during the Khmelnytsky Uprising. The new rathaus served as a town hall and a directory of agriculture since the 20th century. The conditions of the landmark in 2010 were terrible and the rathaus required some major renovations. In the city is a mount Vysochanka named after a colonel of Lysyanka Regiment during the Cossack Hetmanate and a leader of local uprising in 1648 Semen Vysochan. At the start of the 19th century in the city was established a bell-making factory of Felczynski Brothers.

During the years of World War II the residents of the city witnessed many ethnocides. In 1940, the Soviets forced inhabitants of Kalush to leave the town and forcefully moved them to Siberia, many of whom were Polish nationality. In 1941, some of the Poles who survived the Soviet labour camps became part of Anders Army and some of these were selected to join the Polish Air Forces in France and Great Britain. Then, in late 1941 and 1942, Jewish inhabitants of Kalush were murdered by the Germans. Since the 16th century, a Jewish community had flourished in the city; however, in 1941, while under Nazi control, that community was virtually eliminated.

On March 20, 1972 the city of Kalush became a city of regional importance.

Recently several renovations took place of several local temples such as the Temple of All Saints of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Kiev Patriarchate), the Catholic Saint Valentine Kosciol, and the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church of Saint Nicholas.

Kalush city council in 2010

Note: Percentage indicates correlation to the total number of seats in the city council which is 50. The results of election were taken from kalush.net where they were published on November 4, 2010. Election was half and half, one (25 seats) by the "majority rule", another (25 seats) - by "party-list". There were 15 non-affiliated members, all of which associated themselves with the Ukrainian Party (2006).

Seats and percentage
Ukrainian Party (32)			64%
Rukh (5)			10%
Fatherland (5)			10%
Svoboda (3)			6%
Our Ukraine (2)			4%
FZ (2)			4%
Party of Regions (1)			2%

Notable residents

Near the Kalush City Center

Kalush city rathaus (abandoned)

• Stepan Bandera
• August Aleksander Czartoryski
• Jakub Sobieski
• Jan "Sobiepan" Zamoyski
• Tomasz Zamoyski
• Fedir Danylak
• Antin Mohylnytsky
• Mykhailo Kozoris
• Hryhoriy Tsehlynsky
• Bohdan Rubchak
• Yuri Izdryk
• Ivan Rubchak

International relations

See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in Ukraine

Twin towns — sister cities

Kalush, Ukraine is twinned with:

City	Country	Year of Signing
Bačka Palanka	Serbia
Grand Prairie, Texas	United States

Location

Local orientation

Regional orientation

References

Notes

External links

• СТАРИЙ КАЛУШ
• Pre-WWII Jewish History in Kalush
• Helpful Kalush website
• Photographs of Jewish sites in Kalush in Jewish History in Galicia and Bukovina
• Website of the Ukrainian Party