Chortkiv

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City in Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine

title: "Chortkiv" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["chortkiv", "chortkiv-urban-hromada", "cities-in-ternopil-oblast", "jewish-galician-(eastern-europe)-history", "historic-jewish-communities-in-poland", "jewish-ukrainian-history", "cities-of-regional-significance-in-ukraine"] description: "City in Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine" topic_path: "geography" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chortkiv" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary City in Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine ::

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Chortkiv is located in the northern part of the historic region of Galician Podolia on the banks of the Seret River.

In the past Chortkiv was the home of many Hasidic Jews; it was a notable shtetl and had a significant number of Jews residing there prior to the Holocaust. Today, Chortkiv is a regional commercial and small-scale manufacturing center. as well as historic wooden churches of the 17th and 18th centuries.

History

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The first historical mention of Chortkiv dates to 1522, During that time, the town was also granted Magdeburg rights. After First Partition of Poland Chortkiv came under Austro-Hungarian rule which lasted from 1772 to 1918, during the time of which it was the center of the Chortkiv Bezirk except brief Russian rule between 1809 and 1815 as part of Tarnopol Governorate. On June 8, 1919 the Ukrainian Galician Army broke for couple months through the Polish front at Chortkiv and began the Chortkiv offensive. Soon afterwards, the town was seized by the Poles. It was ceded to sovereign Poland in the Peace Treaty of Riga between Poland, Soviet Russia (acting also on behalf of Soviet Belarus) and Soviet Ukraine, and remained part of the Tarnopol Voivodeship of the Second Polish Republic until the Soviet invasion of Poland in September 1939.

In 1931, the town had 19,000 inhabitants, 46.4 percent of whom were Polish Roman Catholics, 30 percent of whom were Ukrainian and Polish Jews, and 22.8 percent of whom were Ukrainian Greek Catholics.

Chortkiv was an important garrison of the Polish Border Defence Corps Brigade "Podole", whose commandant from 1935 to 1938 was General Stefan Rowecki. Furthermore, it was home to the 36th Reserve Infantry Division.

The town was annexed by the Soviet Union from September 17, 1939 until June 1941. Its Polish inhabitants, particularly students of the local high school, organized a failed uprising in January 1940, which would serve as the first Polish uprising of World War II. In the last days of June 1941, following the German invasion of the USSR, the Soviets executed an estimated 100 to 200 prisoners held in the local prison. The remaining prisoners were evacuated further east, either by train or on foot, while hundreds died due to the inhumane conditions of transport or at the hands of guards.

From 1941-1944 Chortkiv was annexed to Nazi Germany. The Jewish residents were persecuted and deported as part of the Holocaust. When the Nazis arrived, they proceeded to execute many of the local Jews, including the family of Charles Schumer, American Senate Majority Leader. The surviving Polish residents of the town were transferred to the Recovered Territories in the immediate postwar period (see Polish population transfers (1944–1946)). After the defeat of the Nazis by the Red Army in 1944, the town returned to Soviet control until in 1991 it became part of independent Ukraine.

Due to heavy destruction of Ternopil, in 1944 Chortkiv served as a regional seat.

In January 1989 the population was 26 681 people.

In January 2013 the population was 29 640 people.

In 2019, at the 40-meter height of the tower of the Saint Stanislaus church in Chortkiv, archaeologist, researcher of fortifications and antiquities Volodymyr Dobrianskyi discovered a detonator of a shrapnel projectile, according to its flight trajectory determined that the 1st, 3rd, 4th and 7th cannon regiments (64 guns) under the command of Ataman Kirill Karas during the Chortkiv offensive (June 7–28, 1919) were stationed in the woods west of the village of Shmankivtsi in the Chortkiv district.

Until 18 July 2020, Chortkiv was designated as a city of oblast significance and did not belong to Chortkiv Raion even though it was the center of the raion. As part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Ternopil Oblast to three, the city was merged into Chortkiv Raion.

The former Chortkiv Air Base is located nearby.

Religion

Existings

  • Church of the Dormition (1584; wooden; restored in the 1990s);
  • Church of the Ascension (UGCC; 1630; wooden; rebuilt in 1717; restored in 1997);
  • Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary (UGCC; 1854; brick);
  • Church of the Intercession (OCU, 1905; brick);
  • Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (OCU; brick);
  • Saint Volodymyr the Great church (under construction since 1993; OCU);
  • Church of the Transfiguration (UGCC; 2007; brick);
  • Saint Michael church (UGCC, 2008; stone);
  • Cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul (Buchach Diocese of the UGCC, 2001);
  • one men's monastery (the Convent of the Holy Family) and two women's monasteries (the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Family and the Congregation of the Myrrh-Bearing Sisters) of the UGCC;
  • Saint Stanislaus church (1610; rebuilt in the early 20th century; restored in 1989);
  • two Jewish synagogues – the main one (1680s) and the new one (1909; architect Hans Geldkremer);
  • the chapels of Our Lady of Lourdes (1908) and Our Lady of the Cross (2013).

No longer existing

Geography

Climate

|location = Chortkiv (1981–2010) |metric first = Yes |single line = Yes |width = auto |Jan high C = -0.7 |Feb high C = 0.9 |Mar high C = 6.0 |Apr high C = 13.9 |May high C = 20.1 |Jun high C = 22.6 |Jul high C = 24.7 |Aug high C = 24.2 |Sep high C = 18.9 |Oct high C = 12.9 |Nov high C = 5.3 |Dec high C = 0.2 |year high C = 12.4 |Jan mean C = -3.5 |Feb mean C = -2.5 |Mar mean C = 1.8 |Apr mean C = 8.5 |May mean C = 14.3 |Jun mean C = 17.1 |Jul mean C = 19.0 |Aug mean C = 18.3 |Sep mean C = 13.5 |Oct mean C = 8.2 |Nov mean C = 2.2 |Dec mean C = -2.4 |year mean C = 7.9 |Jan low C = -6.1 |Feb low C = -5.3 |Mar low C = -1.6 |Apr low C = 4.0 |May low C = 9.2 |Jun low C = 12.3 |Jul low C = 14.1 |Aug low C = 13.4 |Sep low C = 9.1 |Oct low C = 4.5 |Nov low C = -0.3 |Dec low C = -4.8 |year low C = 4.0 |precipitation colour = green |Jan precipitation mm = 31.3 |Feb precipitation mm = 39.1 |Mar precipitation mm = 35.7 |Apr precipitation mm = 47.8 |May precipitation mm = 80.7 |Jun precipitation mm = 90.3 |Jul precipitation mm = 92.0 |Aug precipitation mm = 72.8 |Sep precipitation mm = 59.9 |Oct precipitation mm = 37.4 |Nov precipitation mm = 37.8 |Dec precipitation mm = 39.0 |year precipitation mm = 663.8 |unit precipitation days = 1.0 mm |Jan precipitation days = 7.8 |Feb precipitation days = 8.4 |Mar precipitation days = 8.6 |Apr precipitation days = 8.4 |May precipitation days = 10.0 |Jun precipitation days = 10.1 |Jul precipitation days = 10.2 |Aug precipitation days = 8.6 |Sep precipitation days = 8.3 |Oct precipitation days = 6.9 |Nov precipitation days = 8.0 |Dec precipitation days = 9.4 |year precipitation days = 104.7 |Jan humidity = 84.1 |Feb humidity = 81.6 |Mar humidity = 76.5 |Apr humidity = 68.2 |May humidity = 67.7 |Jun humidity = 72.5 |Jul humidity = 73.0 |Aug humidity = 73.9 |Sep humidity = 77.4 |Oct humidity = 80.2 |Nov humidity = 85.2 |Dec humidity = 86.4 |year humidity = 77.2 |source 1 = World Meteorological Organization{{cite web | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210717143555/https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/normals/WMO/1981-2010/RA-VI/Ukraine/12.6.%20WMO_Normals_Excel_Template%20%282%29.xls | archive-date = 17 July 2021 | url = https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/normals/WMO/1981-2010/RA-VI/Ukraine/12.6.%20WMO_Normals_Excel_Template%20(2).xls | title = World Meteorological Organization Climate Normals for 1981–2010 | publisher = World Meteorological Organization | access-date = 17 July 2021}}

Notable people

Gallery

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References

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