Yavoriv

Yavorov was first mentioned in documents in 1436 as a city with Magdeburg law, in 1569 he received it again. Yavorov was one of the favorite cities of Polish King Jan Sobieski.

Until 1772, the city was a trade and craft center on the way from Lviv to Yaroslav. From the end of the 16th century, an Orthodox brotherhood operated in the city. For the support of Bohdan Khmelnytsky (1648) about ten townspeople were executed by Poles, and a contribution was imposed on the town.

In the second half of the XVII century. Yavorov was a fortified city, where King Jan Sobieski often stayed. It was here, in Yavoriv, ​​that Peter I became engaged to the future Empress Catherine I in 1711. Yavoriv's native was the vicar of the patriarchal throne under Peter I, Stefan Jaworski.From 1772, Yavorov received the status of a free city, which was relocated by German colonists, who founded various enterprises here. In the XIX century. until 1939 - a county town. From 1908, the Ukrainian private gymnasium "Native School" operated in Yavoriv.

From October 1939 to June 1941, the city housed the administration and corps units of the 6th Rifle Corps of the 6th Army of the Kiev Special Military District of the Red Army.

Since 1998, rapid economic and infrastructural growth of Yavoriv and Yavoriv district has begun - we are talking about the creation of FEZ "Yavorov", construction of a new checkpoint across the state border "Krakovets", major reconstruction of roads, etc.

Yavorovshchina Museum, founded in 1931 by M. Filtz.

Yavorov in 1927

City Haal

Population

According to the 1860 census, Yavorov had 8,585 inhabitants. For 1900 - 10046, of which 4872 are men and 5174 are women, by religion:

Greek Catholics - 5870

Roman Catholics - 1669

Jews - 2472

evangelists - 13

other religions - 22

The streets adjacent to the market were inhabited by the Jewish population, in whose hands petty trade was concentrated. The comfortable central quarters were occupied by the German colonists and the Polish gentry. On the more distant streets lived Ukrainians, mostly artisans and handicraftsmen, who also cultivated the land. In 1931, 49% of the city's population huddled in one-room housing.

According to 1990 data, Yavorov was inhabited by 13,200 inhabitants.

The city of Yavorov lay on the western shore of a large pond, on the southwestern shore of the pond - the Small Suburb was spread. To the west of the city, the Great Suburb stretched along the Shklo River. According to 1771 data, there were 10 Catholic and 28 Jewish stone houses in the city; streets Farnaya, Bruhnalskaya, Krakovskaya, Zaluzhnaya, Yaroslavskaya, Lvovskaya and Zamkovaya consisted of 150 wooden houses; on the basement with a dam - 59 wooden houses; there are 332 wooden houses on the Big Suburb, and 97 on the Small Suburb.Of the ancient defensive structures, parts of the rampart that surrounded the entire city remained in some places, and part of the rampart and the moat were also preserved on the castle.

At the beginning of the 19th century, Yavorov was a county town of the 2nd category, the Przemysl district. It remained a city with a typical plan for that time: a quadrangle with equal narrow streets and wooden houses. The main place was occupied by the royal castle. On the central square - the town hall and the market.In 1900, Yavoriv had 16 streets: Yaroslavskaya, Klyashtornaya, Rostislavskaya, Khomykovaya, Kostyushki, Mickiewicz, On Gates, Przemyslskaya, Sobieski Jan, Stavovaya, Shevchenko, Torgovaya, Gross Higher, Gross Lower and Vilechki. Market Square lay in the middle of the city, paved with stone. All majors lived on Rostislavskaya.

In 1454, Prince Vaclav founded the Yavoriv Catholic parish, and the Ruthenian Orthodox parish was created a century later. The first sacred building in Yavoriv was the wooden parish church of the Most Holy Lady Mary, founded in 1454 and existed until 1776. In this church in 1678 the son of King Jan Sobieski Konstantin was baptized. The second parish church was built in 1639 from stone.

Ponds in Yavoriv

There were a number of Orthodox (later Uniate) churches in Yavoriv:

Church on the Great Suburb of the Assumption of the Virgin, built in 1568, approved by King Stefan Batory on May 15, 1578. The church was built of wood, in a typical manner in Russia.

Church of St. George, built in 1588 on the basis of the privilege of King Sigmund.

Church of the Nativity of the Virgin on the Small Suburb. The first document that testifies to it dates back to April 12, 1573, wooden.

St. George's Church is new, built in 1904 from stone.

Basilian Monastery, founded in 1621.

A synagogue was founded in 1658.

Roman Catholic Church of Saints Peter and Paul

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Church of St. Yuri (UGCC)

Church of the Nativity of the Virgin (UGCC)

Woodworking, food, chemical and furniture industries are developed in Yavoriv. Among the main enterprises of the city: the railway station, Snezhka-Ukraina (Snezhka-Ukraine, paint production), the Yavorivsky Metaloplastmass Plant (Yavorivsky Metaloplastmass Plant), Ken-Pak Yavoriv (Ken-Pak Yavoriv) (“ Ken-Pak Yavorov, division of Can-Pack Metal Closures Sp.z oo (Poland), production of crown caps for beer and non-alcoholic products and polyethylene film),

UKR PAK (manufacturing of crown caps for the beer and non-alcoholic industry), a bakery, a plant for reinforced concrete structures, a plant of Lviv-based NVK Klimat Servis (NVK Klimat Servis) for the production of windows, facade systems made of aluminum and ventilated facades.

Yavorov is a long-standing center of arts and crafts, in particular, it is famous for the Yavoriv toy (wood carving, decorative painting, embroidery, weaving, souvenir production). The Yavorivsky regional center of children's and youth creativity and the school-workshop of artistic woodworking operate in the city. There are also numerous trading enterprises, cafes, public service enterprises, branches of leading Ukrainian banks (Oshchadbank, Ukreximbank, Aval, PrivatBank, Nadra Bank).

Also, a weather station operates in Yavoriv and is deployed by 24 departments. mechanized "Iron" brigade them. King Danylo Galitsky (Operational Command "West", 13th Army Corps).

The birthplace of Stefan Yavorsky (1658-1722), a preacher and religious figure of the time of Peter I, Guardian of the Moscow Patriarchal Throne (1700-1721) - in the years preceding the abolition of the patriarchate.

Birthplace of Ukrainian writer Osip Makovei.

The Ukrainian ethnographer and linguist Iosif Lozinsky worked in Yavoriv.

In 1996, the most famous maniac of Ukraine, Anatoly Onoprienko, lived in Yavorov, on whose account 52 murders were committed.