Svaliava

Svaliava Свалява
Svaliava Center. Main Street view.
Flag Coat of arms
Map of Zakarpattia Oblast with Svaliava.
Svaliava Location of Svaliava
Coordinates: 48°32′50″N 22°59′10″E
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Zakarpattia Oblast
Raion	Svaliava Rion
Founded	12th century
Incorporated	1957
Government
• Mayor	Ivan Lanyo
Population
• City	16,903
• Density	1,626.720/km2 (4,213.2/sq mi)
• Metro	17,909
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code	89300
Area code(s)	+380-3133
Website	http://www.svalyava.org/

Svaliava (Ukrainian: Свалява, Rusyn: Свалява, German: Schwalbach or Schwallbach, Hungarian: Szolyva) is a city located on the Latorytsia River in the Zakarpattia Oblast (province) in western Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Svaliava Raion (district).

Demographics

In 2001, the population included: [1]

• Ukrainians (94.5%)
• Russians (1.5%)
• Hungarians (0.7%)
• Slovaks (0.6%)

History

According to the census of 1910, 47.1% of the population was Greek Catholic, 26.2% Jewish and 22.9% Roman Catholic. The Jewish population was deported to Auschwitz by the Hungarian government in May 1944 and murdered by the Germans.

After the second World War a concentration camp was working near the town. Hungarian and German-born civilians (born between 1896 and 1926) were carried off by Soviet forces to the camp purely on the basis of their nationality. They were ordered to report for "malenkij robot" (a corrupted Russian for "small work"), but most of them – more than 10 thousands deportees were killed in the camp.

External links

• Svaliava in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine