Pidkamin
Rural locality in Lviv Oblast, Ukraine
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::summary Rural locality in Lviv Oblast, Ukraine ::
::data[format=table title="Infobox settlement"]
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | |
| native_name | Підкамінь |
| native_name_lang | Ukrainian |
| settlement_type | Rural settlement |
| image_flag | Flag of Pidkamin'.svg |
| image_shield | Coat of Arms of Pidkamin'.svg |
| image_map | Pidkamin and vicinity.png |
| map_caption | Pidkamin and vicinity (before the 2020 administrative reform) |
| pushpin_map | Ukraine#Ukraine Lviv Oblast |
| pushpin_label_position | |
| pushpin_map_caption | Pidkamin in Lviv Oblast |
| coordinates | |
| subdivision_type | Country |
| subdivision_name | |
| subdivision_type1 | Oblast |
| subdivision_name1 | Lviv Oblast |
| subdivision_type2 | Raion |
| subdivision_name2 | Zolochiv Raion |
| subdivision_type3 | Hromada |
| subdivision_name3 | Pidkamin settlement hromada |
| established_title | First mentioned |
| established_date | 1441 |
| named_for | a local butte |
| area_total_km2 | 3.57 |
| population_total | 1895 |
| population_as_of | 2022 |
| area_code | +380 3266 |
| :: |
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::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/Rock_of_Pidkamin.jpg" caption="Rock of Pidkamin"] ::
::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0d/Pidkamin_abbey.jpg" caption="Dominican]] Monastery today belongs to the [[Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church]] (till 2010)"] ::
::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/64/POL_Podkamień_COA.png" caption="Polish coat of arms"] ::
History
Main article: Pidkamin massacre
During the Massacres of Poles in Volhynia, Pidkamin was a shelter for Poles, who fled to its monastery. Some 2,000 people, mostly women and children, were living there when the monastery was attacked in mid-March 1944 by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, cooperating with the Waffen SS. Around 300 Poles were murdered in the monastery, and additional 500 were killed in the town of Pidkamin itself. In the nearby village of Palikrovy, 300 Poles were killed, 20 in Maliniska and 16 in Chernytsia. Armed Ukrainian groups destroyed the monastery, stealing all valuables save for the monastery's crowned icon.
Status
From 1940 to 1959 Pidkamin was an administrative center of Pidkamin Raion. Until 18 July 2020, it belonged to Brody Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Lviv Oblast to seven. The area of Brody Raion was merged into Zolochiv Raion.
Pidkamin was designated an urban-type settlement until 26 January 2024, when this status was abolished and Pidkamin became a rural settlement.
Jewish population
Pidkamin's Jewish population was murdered during the Holocaust under German Nazi occupation.
Notable people
::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/Цебровський.png" caption="Petro Tsebrovsky, founder of Pidkamin and its monastery"] ::
- Leopold Buczkowski (1905–1989), Polish writer, artist.
- Stefan Aleksander Potocki (buried in Pidkamin), a voivode of Belz (1720-1726), a founder of the Basilian monastery in Buchach, father of Mikołaj Bazyli Potocki.
- Sadok Barącz, an ethnic Armenian Latin Church religious leader, historian, folklorist, archivist, and the prior of Pidkamin's Dominican Monastery.
Notes
References
- "Подкаменская громада". Портал об'єднаних громад України.
- [[Grzegorz Motyka]], Ukraińska Partyzantka 1942-1960, Warszawa 2006
- (2020-07-18). "Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ.".
- "Нові райони: карти + склад". Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України.
- (1 January 2024). "Что изменится в Украине с 1 января". glavnoe.in.ua.
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