# Ustyluh > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Ustyluh > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Ustyluh.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ustyluh > Source revision: 1347915733 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{short description|City in Volyn Oblast, Ukraine}} {{Infobox settlement | name = Ustyluh | native_name = {{Lang|uk|Устилуг}} | other_name = {{Nobold|{{lang|pl|Uściług}}{{*}}{{Lang|yi|{{Script/Hebrew|אוסטיל}}}}}} | settlement_type = [City](/source/City_status_in_Ukraine) | image_skyline = Ustylug Vol-Volynskyi Volynska-Stravinskyi house after reconstruction in 2013-left view.jpg | image_caption = [Igor Stravinsky](/source/Igor_Stravinsky) house | image_flag = | image_seal = Coat of Arms Ustyluh.svg | seal_caption = | pushpin_map = Ukraine Volyn Oblast#Ukraine | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = {{UKR}} | subdivision_type1 = [Oblast](/source/Oblasts_of_Ukraine) | subdivision_name1 = [Volyn Oblast](/source/Volyn_Oblast) | subdivision_type2 = [Raion](/source/Raions_of_Ukraine) | subdivision_name2 = [Volodymyr Raion](/source/Volodymyr_Raion) | leader_title = Mayor | leader_name = Viktor Polishchuk | population_as_of = 2022 | population_total = 2060 | coordinates = {{coord|50|51|36|N|24|09|25|E|region:UA|display=inline,title}} | elevation_m = 188 | website = | footnotes = | mapframe = yes | mapframe-zoom = 11 | mapframe-wikidata = yes | subdivision_type3 = [Hromada](/source/Hromada) | subdivision_name3 = [Ustyluh urban hromada](/source/Ustyluh_urban_hromada) }} '''Ustyluh''',{{efn|{{Langx|uk|Устилуг}}, {{IPA|uk|ʊstɪˈluɦ|ipa|audio=LL-Q8798 (ukr)-Gzhegozh-Устилуг.wav}}; {{Langx|pl|Uściług}}; {{langx|yi|אוסטילע|Ustile}}.}} also known as '''Ustilug''', is a small city in [Volodymyr Raion](/source/Volodymyr_Raion), [Volyn Oblast](/source/Volyn_Oblast), [Ukraine](/source/Ukraine). It is situated on the east side of the [border with Poland](/source/Poland%E2%80%93Ukraine_border), and {{convert|13|km}} west of the city of [Volodymyr](/source/Volodymyr_(city)). Population: {{Ua-pop-est2022|2,060|.}} [Igor Stravinsky](/source/Igor_Stravinsky) had an estate in Ustyluh and visited it frequently between 1890 and 1914. His mansion is now a museum. == History == thumb|left|upright|Capuchin church in the early 20th century The oldest settlement in the territory of Ustyluh existed back in the [Copper Age](/source/Copper_Age). During the times of [Kievan Rus](/source/Kievan_Rus') (9th to 12th centuries CE), there was a fortified settlement in the same location, with a necropolis nearby consisting of 29 burial mounds. In 1897, archaeologist M. F. Bilyashevsky excavated three of these mounds. Ustyluh was among the fortified towns taken by [Volodymyr the Great](/source/Vladimir_the_Great). To this day, a pentagonal fortress remains, surrounded by earthen ramparts made of beaten clay, which in height are not inferior to the ramparts of Volodymyr's capital, and it is pierced from the east by the city gate.{{Cite web |title=Незалежний культурний часопис |url=https://vdocuments.site/chasopysjin49volynskyyuse-svit.html |access-date=2023-12-29 |website=vdocuments.site |language=en}} Until the [Russian Revolution](/source/Russian_Revolution_(1917)) of 1917, it was a settlement in [Vladimir-Volynsky Uyezd](/source/Vladimir-Volynsky_Uyezd) of [Volhynian Governorate](/source/Volhynian_Governorate) of the [Russian Empire](/source/Russian_Empire); from 1921 to 1939 it was part of [Wołyń Voivodeship](/source/Wo%C5%82y%C5%84_Voivodeship_(1921%E2%80%931939)) of [Poland](/source/Second_Polish_Republic), within which it had ''miasteczko'' (small town) status. According to the 1921 census, the population was 67.1% [Jewish](/source/Jews), 23.3% [Polish](/source/Polish_people), and 9.6% [Ukrainian](/source/Ukrainians).{{cite book|author=|title=Skorowidz miejscowości Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej|volume=IX|year=1923|language=pl|location=Warszawa|publisher=Główny Urząd Statystyczny|page=61}} Following the German-Soviet [invasion of Poland](/source/invasion_of_Poland), which started [World War II](/source/World_War_II) in September 1939, Uściług was occupied by the [Soviet Union](/source/Soviet_Union) until 1941. It has been a town since 1940.Устилуг // Советский энциклопедический словарь. редколл., гл. ред. А. М. Прохоров. 4-е изд. М., «Советская энциклопедия», 1986. стр.1394 The Germans bombarded the town heavily on the morning of 22 June 1941, the day of [the outbreak of war](/source/Operation_Barbarossa) between the Soviet Union and [Germany](/source/Nazi_Germany). The [German Army](/source/German_Army_(1935%E2%80%931945)) conquered the town toward evening. The Germans established a Jewish [ghetto](/source/Nazi_ghetto), a ''[Judenrat](/source/Judenrat)'', and a [ghetto police force](/source/Jewish_Ghetto_Police), and used the town's Jews for [slave labor](/source/slave_labor). From time to time the Germans took groups of Jewish youth to a valley next to the [Jewish cemetery](/source/Jewish_cemetery) and shot them. In October 1941 alone, the Germans killed 900 Jews from the town [intelligentsia](/source/intelligentsia). The Germans transferred the remaining Jews of Ustyluh to the [Volodymyr](/source/Volodymyr_(city)) ghetto between September 1 and 15, 1942, and murdered them there along with the local Jews in pits prepared for the killings in the village of Piatydnie.{{cite web|url=http://chelm.freeyellow.com/austila.html|title=Remember Jewish Austila|date=2018-07-21|language=English|access-date=2018-07-21|archive-date=2022-10-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221016015620/http://chelm.freeyellow.com/austila.html|url-status=dead}} In January 1989 the population was 2,404 people.{{Cite web |title=Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989 г. Численность городского населения союзных республик, их территориальных единиц, городских поселений и городских районов по полу |url=http://demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/sng89_reg2.php |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231104071848/https://www.demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/sng89_reg2.php |archive-date=Nov 4, 2023 |website=Демоскоп Weekly}}Устилуг // Большой энциклопедический словарь (в 2-х тт.). / редколл., гл. ред. А. М. Прохоров. том 2. М., "Советская энциклопедия", 1991. стр.533 With the opening of the Ustyluh-[Zosin](/source/Zosin%2C_Hrubiesz%C3%B3w_County) international border crossing, the city's role has grown especially important. After Ukraine gained its independence, the Ustyluh-Zosin international border crossing with Poland was opened in the city. In August 2015, the city became the center of the newly created Ustyluh urban hromada.{{citation needed|date=April 2024}} ==Demographics== As of the [2001 Ukrainian census](/source/2001_Ukrainian_census), Ustyluh's population amounted to 2,276 inhabitants. The ethnic and linguistic composition of the population was as follows:{{cite web | url=https://datatowel.in.ua/pop-composition/ethnic-cities | title=Національний склад міст }}{{Cite web|url=https://socialdata.org.ua/projects/mova-2001|title=Рідні мови в об'єднаних територіальних громадах України|website=socialdata.org.ua}}{{bar box|title=Ethnic groups in Ustyluh|titlebar=#ddd|left1=|right1=percent|bars={{bar percent|[Ukrainians](/source/Ukrainians)|dodgerblue|96.79}} {{bar percent|[Russians](/source/Russians_in_Ukraine)|purple|2.15}} {{bar percent|others|gray|1.06}}}} {{bar box|title=Languages in Ustyluh|titlebar=#ddd|left1=|right1=percent|bars={{bar percent|[Ukrainian](/source/Ukrainian_language)|dodgerblue|98.1}} {{bar percent|[Russian](/source/Russian_language_in_Ukraine)|purple|1.4}} {{bar percent|[Armenian](/source/Armenian_language)|brown|0.2}} {{bar percent|[Polish](/source/Polish_language)|yellow|0.1}} {{bar percent|[Belarusian](/source/Belarusian_language)|red|0.1}} {{bar percent|others|gray|0.1}}}} ==Notes== {{notelist}} ==References== {{reflist}} {{Volyn Oblast}} {{Authority control}} Category:Cities in Volyn Oblast Category:Cities of district significance in Ukraine Category:Vladimir-Volynsky Uyezd Category:Rus' towns --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Ustyluh](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ustyluh) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ustyluh?action=history)). 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