Vyzhnytsia


Vyzhnytsia is a town located in the historical region of Bukovina, on the Cheremosh River in Chernivtsi Oblast of western Ukraine. It is the administrative center of Vyzhnytsia Raion.

History

In Judaism the town is known as having been the original center of the Hassidic sect bearing its Yiddish name. The town's Jewish community was decimated in the Holocaust and most survivors did not return, but the flourishing Vizhnitz Hassidic community in Israel and elsewhere continues to keep the name.
Until World War I, the town was named Wischnitz and was part of Austria-Hungary.
It has been a city since 1940.
A local newspaper is published in the city since February 1945.
In January 1989 the population was 5708 people.
In 2011 a security checkpoint "Vyzhnytsia" was built here.
In January 2013 the population was 4207 people.

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