Zdolbuniv

Zdolbuniv Здолбунів
Skyline of Zdolbuniv Skyline of Zdolbuniv
Coat of arms
Country Oblast Raion	Ukraine Rivne Oblast Zdolbuniv Raion
First mentioned	1497
Population (2011)
• Total	24,637

Zdolbuniv (Ukrainian: Здолбунів, Russian: Здолбунов, Polish: Zdołbunów) is a small city in the Rivne Oblast (province) of western Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Zdolbuniv Raion (district), and has an important railway station and cement plant (there is a deposit of chalk). The current estimated population is around 24,637 (as of 2011).

History

The town was mentioned in 1497 in the deed, in which the Lithuanian Grand Duke Alexander Jagiellon committed several villages to the Prince Konstanty Ostrogski. Among the villages mentioned in the deed was Dolbunov. The town has had its present name of Zdolbuniv since 1629. In 1569, following the Union of Lublin, Zdolbuniv became part of the Kingdom of Poland, where it remained for over 200 years, until the Partitions of Poland. In 1793, it was annexed by the Russian Empire, and in the interbellum period, it again belonged to Poland. Zdolbunow, as it was then known, was an important rail hub, located near the Polish-Soviet border. The town had a mixed Polish-Ukrainian-Jewish population.

In September 1939, following the Soviet Invasion of Poland, Zdolbunow was captured by the Soviet Union, where it remained until the Operation Barbarossa. Its Jewish minority perished in the Holocaust, and in late 1943, Zdolbunow became a shelter for ethnic Polish population of Volhynia, escaping the Volhynian Genocide. On February 3, 1944, the town was captured by the Red Army.

Zdolbuniv is the birthplace of a contemporary Polish painter Stanislaw Fijalkowski (born 1922), and singer Teresa Tutinas (born 1943)

Gallery

• Zdolbuniv Tserkva Kateryny 03 Tserkovna vul. (YDS 7612).JPG

  St.Katherine Church

• Zdolbuniv Kostel 01 Pushkina vul. (YDS 7583).JPG

  St.Peter & Paul Kostel

• 3. Пам'ятник Уласу Самчуку; Здолбунів.JPG

  House of culture

• Пам'ятник Степану Бандері в Здолбунові.jpg

  Stepan Bandera monument in Zdolbuniv

• Zdolbuniv Pam'yatnyk Ulasu Samchuku 01 Nezalezhnosti 41 (YDS 7590).JPG

  Bust of Ulas Samchuk

• Zdolbuniv Try Mogyly Voyiniv UNR (ne UPA) 01 Vyly vul. gromads'ke kladovysche (YDS 7589).JPG

  Graves of warriors of Ukrainian People's Republic

• Zdolbuniv Brats'ka Mogyla Voyiniv Pol's'koyi Armiyi 04 Vos'mogo Bereznya vul. gromads'ke kladovysche (YDS 7606).JPG

  Memorial and common grave of Polish warriors

• Zdolbuniv Memorial Voyins'koyi Slavy 01 Mis'kiy Park (YDS 7593).JPG

  Memorial of WW2 warriors

• Zdolbuniv Brats'ka Mogyla Voyiniv 01 Vos'mogo Bereznya vul. gromads'ke kladovysche (YDS 7603).JPG

  Common grave of WW2 warriors

• Zdolbuniv Pam'yatnyk Prykhod'ku Pryvokzal'na Ploscha (YDS 7611).JPG

  Zdolbuniv railway station

• Zdolbuniv.JPG

  Zdolbuniv cement factory