{{Short description|City in Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine}} {{Infobox settlement | native_name = Тараща | image_skyline = File:Тараща паровий млин.jpg | imagesize = | image_caption = Steam mill | image_flag = Tarasha prapor.png | image_shield = Tarashcha COA (Kiev Governorate) (1852).png | nickname = | motto = | mapsize = | map_caption = Tarashcha is located within Kyiv Oblast of Ukraine. | subdivision_type = [[Countries of the world|Country]] | subdivision_type1 = [[Oblasts of Ukraine|Oblast]] | subdivision_type2 = [[Raions of Ukraine|Raion]] | subdivision_name = {{UKR}} | subdivision_name1 = [[Kyiv Oblast]] | subdivision_name2 = [[Bila Tserkva Raion]] | subdivision_type3 = [[Hromada]] | subdivision_name3 = [[Tarashcha urban hromada]] | established_title = Founded<br>[[Magdeburg Rights]] | established_date = 1709<br>1791 | leader_title = [[Mayor]] | leader_name = | area_magnitude = | area_total_km2 = 36.96 | area_land_km2 = | area_water_km2 = | population_as_of = 2022 | population_note = | population_total = 9689 | population_footnotes = | population_metro = | population_density_km2 = auto | pushpin_map = Ukraine Kyiv Oblast#Ukraine | pushpin_label_position = <!-- the position of the pushpin label: left, right, top, bottom, none --> | pushpin_map_caption = Location of Tarashcha | pushpin_mapsize = | coordinates = {{coord|49|33|N|30|30|E|region:UA|display=inline,title}} | elevation_m = | | postal_code_type = [[Postal code]] | postal_code = 09504 | area_code = +380 4566 | blank_info = | sister_cities = | website = | footnotes = | name = Tarashcha | native_name_lang = uk | other_name = Tarascha | settlement_type = [[City status in Ukraine|City]] | mapframe = yes | mapframe-zoom = 11 | mapframe-wikidata = yes }}
'''Tarashcha''' or '''Tarascha''' ({{langx|uk|Тараща}}, {{IPA|uk|tɐˈrɑʃtʃɐ|ipa|audio=LL-Q8798 (ukr)-Gzhegozh-Тараща.wav}}) is a [[List of cities in Ukraine|city]] in [[Bila Tserkva Raion]], [[Kyiv Oblast]] ([[Oblast|region]]) in central [[Ukraine]]. It hosts the administration of [[Tarashcha urban hromada]], one of the [[hromada]]s of Ukraine.<ref name="admreform_2020_tarashcha">{{cite web |title=Таращанская городская громада |url=https://gromada.info/ru/obschina/taraschanska/ |publisher=Портал об'єднаних громад України |language=ru}}</ref> Population: {{Ua-pop-est2022|9,689|.}}
==History== Tarashcha is an historic [[Cossack]] town (in the 17th century through 17th century - rather a [[city]]). It was founded when the area was under the ultimate control of the [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]].
Until the mid-20th century, the town had a significant [[Jews|Jewish]] community, being a [[shtetl]]. The town was occupied by the German army on July 23, 1941.
Jews were forced to wear armbands with the Star of David, were not allowed to buy food and were relegated to forced labour. Afterward, a ghetto was established on Tarasha Street. Executions of the Jewish population were carried out by German security forces, S.S. Viking Division, detachment of Einsatzgruppe, in cooperation with Einsatzkommando 5 and local police. The execution of Jews started from the very first days of German occupation. Several executions were conducted. The main actions took place in August 1941, with 400 Jewish victims; on September 10, 1941, during which several hundred Jews were killed; while on November 9, 1941, the ghetto was liquidated. Altogether, up to 1,000 Jews were exterminated in Tarashcha between August and November 1941.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://yahadmap.org/#village/tarashcha-kyiv-ukraine.675|title = Yahad - in Unum}}</ref>
===Modern developments=== Recently, the town has become known as the place of the clandestine burial and later recovery of [[Georgiy Gongadze]], a Ukrainian [[journalist]] kidnapped and murdered in 2000. [[File:Місця проведення змагань з мотоспорту.jpg|thumb|left|Motorcycle track near Tarashcha]]
Also, the Tarashcha Raion is closely associated with the prominent Ukrainian politician [[Oleksandr Moroz]]: he was born and started his career here, later became elected to the [[Verkhovna Rada|parliament]] from the local [[constituency]]. Moroz is the most notable and influential person in the neighborhood. There were even speculations between these two facts and Moroz's significant role in Gongadze case and [[Cassette Scandal]].
Until 18 July 2020, Tarashcha was the administrative center of [[Tarashcha Raion]]. The raion was abolished that day as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Kyiv Oblast to seven. The area of Tarashcha Raion was merged into Bila Tserkva Raion.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ.|url=http://www.golos.com.ua/article/333466|access-date=2020-10-03|date=2020-07-18|website=Голос України|language=uk}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Нові райони: карти + склад |url=https://www.minregion.gov.ua/press/news/novi-rajony-karty-sklad/ |publisher=Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України |language=Ukrainian}}</ref>
== 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"| 97.38% |- | [[Russian language in Ukraine|Russian]] | align="right"| 2.24% |- | other/undecided | align="right"| 0.38% |}
==Notable people== *[[Anatoly Alexandrov (physicist)|Anatoly Aleksandrov]], President of [[Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union|Soviet Academy of Sciences]] *{{ill|Moïse Haissinsky|fr}}, French-Jewish physicist and radiochemist, worked in the [[Curie Institute (Paris)|Institut du Radium]] with [[Marie Curie]] *[[Agapius Honcharenko]], Ukrainian Orthodox priest and dissident *[[Oleksandr Moroz]], Ukrainian politician, chairman of the [[Verkhovna Rada]] *[[Volodymyr Sikevych]], General Khorunzhy of the Ukrainian People's Army of the Ukrainian People's Republic *[[Boris Thomashefsky]], American Jewish singer and actor
==See also== *[[Pale of Settlement]]
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== {{refbegin}} * [http://www.mrt5.com/ukraine/ukr0002.html mrt5.com] - Some photographs of the city * [https://web.archive.org/web/20051128213106/http://www.jewishgen.org/cemetery/e-europe/ukra-t.html jewishgen.org] - Info on Jewish cemeteries at Tarashcha {{refend}}
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