Lyutizh
Lyutizh
Лютіж | |
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Village-type settlement | |
 Flag  Coat of arms | |
  Lyutizh | |
| Coordinates: 50°41′05″N 30°23′40″E / 50.68472°N 30.39444°E | |
| Country | Ukraine |
| Oblast | Kyiv Oblast |
| Raion | Vyshhorod Raion |
| Population (2006) | |
| • Total | 2,282 |
| Postal code | 07352 |
| Area code | +380 4596 |
| Website | https://rada.info/rada/04359593/ |
Lyutizh (Ukrainian: Лютіж; Russian: Лютеж - Lyutezh) is a village 30 km to the north of Kyiv in the Ukrainian Oblast of Kyiv with some 2280 inhabitants (2006).
The village, first mentioned in 975, is best known for the Lyutezh bridgehead, established by troops of the 1st Ukrainian Front on the right bank of the Dnieper in the autumn of 1943 during the Battle of the Dnieper.
The fighting for the bridgehead is commemorated in the National Museum-Preserve "Battle for Kyiv 1943" in the nearby village of Novi Petrivtsi