{{Short description|City in Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2023}} {{Infobox settlement | name = Lypovets | native_name = Липовець | native_name_lang = uk | settlement_type = [[City status in Ukraine|City]] | image_skyline = Lypovets 28.jpg | image_caption = Lypovets skyline | image_shield = File:Coat_of_Arms_Lypovets.png | pushpin_map_caption = Map of Ukraine with Lypovets highlighted | pushpin_map = Ukraine Vinnytsia Oblast#Ukraine | pushpin_map1 = | pushpin_relief = 1 | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = {{UKR}} | subdivision_type1 = [[Oblasts of Ukraine|Oblast]] | subdivision_name1 = [[Vinnytsia Oblast]] | subdivision_type2 = [[Raions of Ukraine|Raion]] | subdivision_name2 = [[Vinnytsia Raion]] | unit_pref = Metric | area_total_km2 = 10.33 | population_as_of = 2022 | population_total = 7958 | population_density_km2 = auto | population_demonym = Lypovets' | timezone = EET | utc_offset = +2 | timezone_DST = EEST | utc_offset_DST = +3 | coordinates = {{coord|49|13|15|N|29|03|25|E|region:UA|display=it}} | elevation_m = 242 | postal_code_type = Postal code | postal_code = 22500-22505 | area_code = +380-4358 | subdivision_type3 = [[Hromada]] | subdivision_name3 = [[Lypovets urban hromada]] }}
'''Lypovets''' ({{Langx|uk|Липовець}}, {{IPA|uk|ˈlɪpowetsʲ|ipa|audio=LL-Q8798 (ukr)-Gzhegozh-Липовець.wav}}, {{langx|pl|Lipowiec}}) is a small [[List of cities in Ukraine|city]] in [[Vinnytsia Raion]], [[Vinnytsia Oblast]], [[Ukraine]]. Until the administrative reform of 2020, it served as the administrative center of the former [[Lypovets Raion]]. Population: {{Ua-pop-est2022|7,958|.}} It is located in the historic region of [[Podolia]].
== History == [[File:Ukraine. Braclavia Palatinatus. Beauplan 1648.jpg|thumb|left|Map of the [[Bracław Voivodeship]] from 1648 with ''Lipowiec'' marked]] Lipowiec, as it was known in Polish, was granted [[town rights]] in the early 17th century. It was a [[private town]], administratively located in the Winnica County in the [[Bracław Voivodeship]] in the [[Lesser Poland Province, Crown of the Kingdom of Poland|Lesser Poland Province]] of the Kingdom of Poland.<ref>{{cite book|last=Krykun|first=Mykola|year=2012|title=Воєводства Правобережної України у XVI-XVIII століттях: Статті і матеріали|language=uk,pl|page=542|publisher=Ukraïns'kij katolickij unìversitet |isbn=978-617-607-240-9}}</ref> It was annexed by the [[Russian Empire]] in the [[Second Partition of Poland]] in 1793. In 1802, it became the administrative center of Lypovets [[uyezd]] in [[Kiev Governorate]].<ref name=sgk>{{cite book|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich, Tom V|year=1884|language=pl|location=Warszawa|page=287}}</ref> In the late 19th century the population was mostly employed in agriculture and grain trade, which was sold mostly to [[Odesa]].<ref name=sgk/>
During [[World War II]], Lypovets was the site of [[Battle of Lypovec|a battle]] between the [[Soviet Union]] and the [[Slovak Republic (1939–1945)|Slovak State]]. The battle ended with a Slovak victory, with a cumulative casualty count of nearly 700. Afterwards it was occupied by [[Nazi Germany|Nazi German]] troops, from 1941 to 1944. In a field near Lypovets, from the end of April 1942, over 950 Jews were shot by German security forces with the support of local policemen and buried in two mass graves.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Рей |first1=Брандон |title=Липовець. Життя та загибель єврейської громади |url=http://www.holocaust.kiev.ua/Files/zah_pam/Lypovets.pdf |website=www.holocaust.kiev.ua |publisher=Київ: УЦВІГ, 2019 |access-date=20 October 2023}}</ref> To commemorate the extermination, obelisks were erected in the 1950s - on the initiative of Leontii Usharenko, who was pulled out of the pit at the last minute and had to watch his family and acquaintances being murdered. Two memorials were erected at the mass graves of the Jewish victims in 2019 and [https://netzwerk-erinnerung.de/places/lypowez/ ceremonially inaugurated] in September 2019.
== Population == === Language === Distribution of the population by native language according to the [[2001 Ukrainian census|2001 census]]:<ref>{{cite web | url=https://socialdata.org.ua/projects/mova-2001/ | title=Рідні мови в об'єднаних територіальних громадах України }}</ref> {| class="standard" |- ! Language ! Percentage |- | [[Ukrainian language|Ukrainian]] | align="right"| 98.41% |- | [[Russian language in Ukraine|Russian]] | align="right"| 1.4% |- | other/undecided | align="right"| 0.19% |}
{{Historical populations|align=left|1875|6710|1989|9764|2013|8727|2022|7958 |footnote=Sources:<ref>[http://demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/sng89_reg2.php Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989 г. Численность городского населения союзных республик, их территориальных единиц, городских поселений и городских районов по полу]</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://database.ukrcensus.gov.ua/PXWEB2007/ukr/publ_new1/2013/sb_nnas_2012.pdf |title=Чисельність наявного населення України на 1 січня 2013 року. Державна служба статистики України. Київ, 2013. стор.43 |access-date=3 October 2019 |archive-date=12 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131012013028/http://database.ukrcensus.gov.ua/PXWEB2007/ukr/publ_new1/2013/sb_nnas_2012.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name=sgk/>}} {{clear|left}}
==Gallery== <gallery> File:Lypovets 01.jpg|Lypovets district executive committee File:Lypovets 09.jpg|Sports ground File:Lypovets 40.jpg|Employment centre in Lypovets File:Lypovets 41.jpg|Palace of culture File:Словацький монумент.jpg|The Slovak Monument to commemorate the battle of 1941 </gallery>
== Notable people == * [[Pyotr Stolyarsky]] (1871 – 1944), Soviet violinist and pedagogue
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== {{commons category|Lypovets}} * [http://lypovets.com.ua Website «Наш Липовець»] * [http://www.yadvashem.org/untoldstories/database/index.asp?cid=749 The murder of the Jews of Lypovets] during [[World War II]], at [[Yad Vashem]] website.
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