Chop, Ukraine

This article is about the city in Ukraine. For CSaP at the University of Cambridge, see Centre for Science and Policy. For the surname, see Čop (surname).

Chop Чоп Csap (in Hungarian) Čop (in Slovak)
City of regional significance
Railway station in Chop
Flag Coat of arms
Chop Location of Chop Chop Chop (Ukraine)
Coordinates: 48°25′50″N 22°12′00″E
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Zakarpattia Oblast
Council	Chop city council
Government
• Mayor	Galina Car
Elevation	103 m (338 ft)
Population  (2020)
• Total	8,819
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	89500 — 89509
Area code	+380 22
Climate	Cfb
Sister cities	Milove (Ukraine) Sokołów Małopolski, (Poland) Záhony (Hungary)
Website	http://chop-rada.gov.ua/

Chop (Ukrainian: Чоп, Hungarian: Csap, Slovak: Čop, Rusyn: Чоп, Yiddish: טשאָפּ) is a city located in Zakarpattia Oblast (province) of western Ukraine, near the borders of Slovakia and Hungary. It is separated from the Hungarian town of Záhony by the river Tisza by being situated on its right bank. Located inside Uzhhorod Raion, since 2003 it is designated as a city of oblast significance - not included in any raion (district) of the oblast.

Names

There are several alternative names used for this city: Hungarian: Csap, Slovak: Čop, German: Tschop, Romanian: Ciop, Polish: Czop, Russian: Чоп, Yiddish: טשאָפּ.

History

The new church

Like the rest of Transcarpathia, Csap (as it was then known) was part of Hungary until 1920, when, as a result of the post-World War I Treaty of Trianon, it was included in the newly created Czechoslovakia, where it belonged to Slovakia, not to Subcarpathian Rus. During World War II, under the First Vienna Award, it briefly became Hungarian again. But, after the war, as part of the Czechoslovakia–Soviet Union relations, it became part of the expanded Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (now Ukraine), adopting the Ukrainian version of its name, 'Чоп' (usually transliterated as 'Chop' or 'Tchop' in English).

Demographics

According to the Ukrainian national census, Chop had a population in 2001 of 8,919, of whom 40% were Ukrainians, 39.2% ethnic Hungarians and 20.8% Roma, Russians, Slovaks, Belarusians, and Jews. Today, the population is 8,819 (2020 est.).

Features

Passport stamps from Chop.

Old 1982 USSR passport stamps from the same crossing.

Border crossing

Chop is an important railway junction in Ukraine where the Lviv-Stryi-Budapest railway line meets the Lviv-Uzhgorod-Košice line. There is also a line running eastwards to Romania via Korolevo and Halmeu although there are currently no regular passenger services.

Near Chop, there are also international railway and highway border crossings to Hungary and Slovakia and also to the westernmost point of Ukraine. The first town across the border in Slovakia is Čierna nad Tisou while in Hungary, the first city is Záhony.

Notable residents

• J. Peters, political activist

See also

• Chop railway station
• Chop - Tysa

External links

Chop in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine Chop (Чоп) of Ukraine 1:100,000 topographic maps Chop - ShtetLink