Fastiv


Fastiv is a city in the Kyiv Oblast in central Ukraine. Administratively, it is incorporated as a city of oblast significance. It also serves as the administrative center of the Fastiv Raion, to which it does not administratively belong. Its population is approximately.
Lying on conjunction of railway lines, Fastiv is an important node station on the rail route from central Europe to Russia and Asia. Brewing and machinery industry are also present, although the majority of inhabitants are employed by Ukrzaliznytsia's 12 railway installations in the city.

History

Fastiv is a historical city that survived through Cossack uprisings and the Great Turkish War with the period of total devastation and later resettlement.
In September 1919, a pogrom of the Jewish population of Fastiv was carried out by Denikin's White Army forces; about 1,800 people were murdered and about 8,000 died in the following year from wounds or epidemics. In 1941 the German Einsatzgruppe C under Paul Blobel murdered all Fastiv Jews between the ages of 12 and 60.

Architecture

Historical landmarks include the Intercession Church - a 17th-century Orthodox church, also known as Paliy Church. There is also an early 20th-century Catholic church.

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Town twinning

Notable people