History of Yampil, Vinnytsia Oblast
Appearance
This article covers the history of Yampil, a city located in the Vinnytsia Oblast, on the Dnister River, directly on the Ukrainian border with Moldova. The population is a bit over 10,000.
Time period | Territorial belonging |
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13th – first half (H1) 14th century | The area where wandered the Tartar hordes |
End of 14th century | The territory of future town Yampil belonged to Lithuanian Grand Duke Algirdas (1296 - 1377) |
15th century | Yampil was a part of the Bratslav province (the administrative unit of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania) |
End of 16th – H1 17th century | Yampil with other Bratslavs’ settlements became the property of the Great Crown Hetman, Polish statesman of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth of Jan Zamoyski |
1642 | Yampil became the property of the cornet Great Crown of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth of Aleksander Koniecpolski (1620 - 1659) |
1648 | Yampil joined to the Mogilev and later Bratslav regiment as a squadron town |
1672–1690 | Yampil was a part of the Bratslav regiment which was under the control of Turkish army |
1690 | Yampil as a part of Bratslav regiment joined eventually to the Podolsky regiment of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth |
1710 | Yampil which was a property of Hetman Ivan Skoropadsky was sold to Duke Olexandr Menshikov |
1751 | The Russian Empress Elizabeth donated Yampil for last Hetman of Ukraine Kirill Razumovsky |
End of 18th century | Yampil was bought by noble Dominik Orlowski. Subsequently he sold Yampil for Kiev governor Prot Potocki |
1795 | Yampil became a parish of Bratslav province of the Russian Empire |
1796 | Yampil parish was joined to Podolsky Guberniya of the Russian Empire |
Beginning of 19th century | After bankruptcy of Prot Potocki Yampil became a property of Maciej Dobrzanski |
End of 19th – H1 20th century | Most of Yampils’ possession including mansion house belonged to Faustyn Witkowski |
Since March 1917 | Power passed from hand to hand: Ukrainian Central Rada, the Hetmanate, the Directorate, the Soviet government |
February 18, 1918 | The Soviet government was established |
1924 | Yampil acquired the status of township as a part of Podolsk province (1924, on the territory of Podolsk and Odessa provinces were created Moldavian Autonomous SSR) |
February 27, 1932 | Township Yampil belonged to newly formed Vinnitsa Region of Ukrainian SSR |
July 21, 1941 | Yampil was occupied by German and Romanian troops and subsequently incorporated into the Dzhuhastryansky parish |
May 17–29, 1944 | Yampil was realised |
Present | Yampil is a center of Yampil district of Vinnitsa Region of Ukraine. |
Sources and further reading
[edit]- Д. С. Вирський, Д. Я. Вортман. Ямпіль Archived 2016-03-13 at the Wayback Machine // (In Ukrainian)
- А.П. Заблоцький. Я́мпіль // Історія міст і сіл Української РСР : у 26 т. / П.Т. Тронько (голова Головної редколегії). — К. : Головна редакція УРЕ АН УРСР, 1967 - 1974 — том Вінницька область / А.Ф. Олійник (голова редколегії тому), 1972 : 788с. — С.725-734 (In Ukrainian)