Lokachi

Lokachi
Локачі
Church of Saint Nicholas
Church of Saint Nicholas
Flag of Lokachi
Flag
Coat of arms of Lokachi
Coat of arms
Lokachi is located in Ukraine
Lokachi
Lokachi
Lokachi is located in Volyn Oblast
Lokachi
Lokachi
Coordinates: 50°44′18″N 24°38′14″E / 50.7383°N 24.6372°E / 50.7383; 24.6372
Country Ukraine
OblastVolyn Oblast
RaionVolodymyr Raion
HromadaLokachi settlement hromada
Population
 (2022)
 • Total
3,698
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

Lokachi (Ukrainian: Локачі, Polish: Łokacze) is a rural settlement in Volyn Oblast (province), located in the historic region of the Volhynia. It is an administrative seat of the Lokachi settlement hromada. Population: 3,698 (2022 estimate)[1]

History

It was a settlement in Vladimir-Volynsky Uyezd in Volhynian Governorate of the Russian Empire.

In June 1916, during the First World War, there was fighting in the vicinity between the forces of the Russian and Austrian Empires. This was part of the Brusilov Offensive.

In 1921, the Jewish population of the village was 1,265. The total population of the town in 1937 was 1,790.

The Axis occupied the town in June 1941. A Judenrat was soon established. The Jews were forced to move to a ghetto in November 1941. The ghetto started to be closed in with a fence in February 1942. Many Jews of the ghetto were subjected to forced labor. On September 9, 1942, the German gendarmerie and the Ukrainian police liquidated the ghetto. More than 1,500 Jews were killed in a grave.[2][3]

A local newspaper is published here since 1945.[4]

In January 1989 the population was 4118 people.[5]

Until 26 January 2024, Lokachi was designated urban-type settlement. On this day, a new law entered into force which abolished this status, and Lokachi became a rural settlement.[6]

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ "Yahad - in Unum".
  3. ^ "UntoldStories.title".
  4. ^ № 2637. Колхозная правда // Летопись периодических и продолжающихся изданий СССР 1986—1990. Часть 2. Газеты. М., «Книжная палата», 1994. стр.345
  5. ^ Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989 г. Численность городского населения союзных республик, их территориальных единиц, городских поселений и городских районов по полу
  6. ^ "Что изменится в Украине с 1 января". glavnoe.in.ua (in Russian). 1 January 2024.