Luzhany

Luzhany Лужани
Rural settlement
Luzhany Voznesenska church
Luzhany Location of Luzhany in Ukraine Show map of Chernivtsi Oblast Luzhany Luzhany (Ukraine) Show map of Ukraine
Coordinates: 48°21′47″N 25°45′43″E
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Chernivtsi Oblast
Raion	Chernivtsi Raion
First mentioned	1452
Urban status since	1968
Government
• Town Head	Nataliya Katriuk
Elevation [1]	179 m (587 ft)
Population  (2001)
• Total	4,744
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code	59342
Area code	+380 3736
Website	http://rada.gov.ua/

Luzhany (Ukrainian: Лужани; Romanian: Lujeni; Yiddish: לוזשאן) is a rural settlement in Chernivtsi Raion, Chernivtsi Oblast, western Ukraine. It belongs to Mamaivtsi rural hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.^[2]

The settlement lies on the banks of the Prut River, about 13 km (8.1 mi) northwest of the regional capital Chernivtsi. As of the 2001 census, the town's population is 4,744.^[3] Current population: 4,781 (2022 estimate).^[4]

History

First mentioned in a 1452 deed, Luzhany belonged to the Danubian Principality of Moldavia until 1774/75, when upon the Russo-Turkish War its northwestern parts (the Bukovina) were ceded to the Habsburg monarchy. Incorporated into the Austrian Duchy of Bukovina from 1849, the area was incorporated into Greater Romania after World War I. In 1940, as a result of a secret clause of the Molotov–Ribbentrop pact between Hitler and Stalin, the Romanian state was forced to cede Northern Bukovina to the Soviet Union.

In 1968, Luzhany received urban-type settlement status.^[5]

Luzhany became part of independent Ukraine in 1991.

Until 18 July 2020, Luzhany belonged to Kitsman Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Chernivtsi Oblast to three. The area of Kitsman Raion was split between Chernivtsi Raion and Vyzhnytsia Raion, with Luzhany being transferred to Chernivtsi Raion.^[6][7]

On 26 January 2024, a new law entered into force which abolished the status of urban-type settlement in Ukraine, and Luzhany became a rural settlement.^[8]

Notable people

• Vladimir Katriuk (1921 – 2015), Canadian man of Ukrainian ancestry, accused of war crimes
• Yuriy Shelepnytskyi (born 1965), Ukrainian professional football coach and former player for FC Bukovyna Chernivtsi.^[9]

See also

• FC Luzhany (Chernivtsi Oblast)

References

1. "Luzhany (Chernivtsi Oblast, Kitsman Raion)". weather.in.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 20 January 2012.
2. "Мамаевская громада" (in Russian). Портал об'єднаних громад України.
3. "Luzhany, Chernivtsi Oblast, Kitsman Raion". Regions of Ukraine and their Structure (in Ukrainian). Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 20 January 2012.
4. Чисельність наявного населення України на 1 січня 2022 [Number of Present Population of Ukraine, as of January 1, 2022] (PDF) (in Ukrainian and English). Kyiv: State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 July 2022.
5. Катрюк, Н. М.; Лаєвська, М. І. "Лужани". Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine (in Ukrainian). Vol. 18. NASU Institute of Encyclopaedic Research. ISBN 978-966-02-2074-4.
6. "Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ". Голос України (in Ukrainian). 2020-07-18. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
7. "Нові райони: карти + склад" (in Ukrainian). Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України.
8. "Что изменится в Украине с 1 января". glavnoe.in.ua (in Russian). 1 January 2024.
9. "Shelepnytskyi, Yuriy". National-Football-Teams.com. Retrieved 20 January 2012.

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