According to historical and archaeological data, Liubar is the possible location of the ancient Ruthenian city of Bolokhov. In the 13th century, the Bolokhov land was devastated by the military campaigns of Daniel of Galicia as well as Mongol raids.
A Jewish community lived in Liubar for centuries.[3] A wooden synagogue was erected in 1491. It was destroyed during pogroms perpetrated by the Cossacks in the middle of the 17th century.
During the Second Partition of Poland, in 1793, Lubar was annexed by Russia, within which it was administratively located in the Novograd-Volynsky Uyezd in Volhynian Governorate. During the January Uprising, on May 9, 1863, it was the site of a battle between Polish insurgents led by General Edmund Różycki and the Russians, won by the Poles.[5] In 1870, it had a population of 4,922.[2] At the end of the 19th century, the Jewish inhabitants represented 43% of the total population. 9 synagogues, a Jewish theater, a Jewish hospital and many shops were Jewish-owned.
A local newspaper was published in Liubar since August 1931.[7] During the Holodomor of 1932–1933, numerous people died of hunger in the region.
On July 6, 1941, Wehrmacht occupied this town. Germans sent the Jews into a ghetto. In August 1941, mass executions killed around 300 people in the nearby forest. On September, around 1,300 Jews from the city and surroundings villages are murdered by an Einsatzgruppen including Ukrainians Hilfspolizei.[8]
After Liubar became part of independent Ukraine in 1991, an art school, a stadium and a youth sports school were opened in the settlement. Starting from 1994, the district was attached to gas pipeline
In January 2013 the population was 2179 people.[10]
In 2016, a memorial plaque to the victims of the Holocaust was installed in Liubar. During a non-invasive archaeological survey in April 2017, the exact location of the burials could not be determined.[11] The information stele was unveiled in June 2019.
Until 26 January 2024, Liubar was designated urban-type settlement. On this day, a new law entered into force which abolished this status, and Liubar became a rural settlement.[12]
Notable people
Aron Vergelis (1918-1999), Soviet Yiddish writer and poet.
Valeriy Kharchyshyn (1974), leader of the Druha Rika rock band.
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^Gembarzewski, Bronisław (1925). Rodowody pułków polskich i oddziałów równorzędnych od r. 1717 do r. 1831 (in Polish). Warszawa: Towarzystwo Wiedzy Wojskowej. p. 29.
^Zieliński, Stanisław (1913). Bitwy i potyczki 1863-1864. Na podstawie materyałów drukowanych i rękopiśmiennych Muzeum Narodowego w Rapperswilu (in Polish). Rapperswil: Fundusz Wydawniczy Muzeum Narodowego w Rapperswilu. p. 339.
