Pechenizhyn

Pechenizhyn
City
Country	Ukraine
Oblast (province)	Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast
Population  (2016)
• Total	5,313

Pechenizhyn (Ukrainian: Печеніжин, Polish: Peczeniżyn, Yiddish: פעטשיניזשן Pechinizhn) is an urban-type settlement in Kolomyia Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (province) of Ukraine, 11 kilometres (7 mi) west of Kolomyya. It population is 5,313 (2016 est.).

Until World War I Pechenizhyn was in Kolomyja Powiat, Galicia (in the Austrian Empire). Between the two World Wars it was in Stanislawow Province, Poland. In 1890 the Jewish population of the town was 2024.

Historical Facts

Monument to Stanislaw Szczepanowski in Lviv.

• In 1886 the town was connected with Kolomea by the Carpathian Train, also known as a train car as it would go right through a city on a narrow railway.
  • The Polish lawyer, diplomat, and the owner of the local oil refinery Stanislaw Szczepanowski supported the idea of installation of the local railroad system that was proposed by Ludowik Vezhbicki, the head of Lviv-Chernivtsi railroad (see Lviv Railways). He created a concern together with Vienna-based company "M.Biedermann & Co". The construction was conducted by another Vienna firm "Lindheim & Co" under the leadership of engineer Rudolf Matkovski. After the Soviet liberation in 1944 it was utilized by the NKVD forces for deportation of the local population to Siberia.
• Before World War I on the outskirts of the town there was a palace of Potocki family, the biggest Polish magnates (landowners) in Ukraine.
• Birthplace of Oleksa Dovbush, the "Ukrainian Robin Hood" in the 18th century,
• Shtetl in the Kolomyia powiat (administrative district) in 19th and 20th centuries.

Demographics

1913: total population 7000 (4100 Ukrainians (Rusyns), 2300 Jews, 600 Poles)

See also

• Nizhyn