Bila Tserkva
Bila Tserkva (Ukrainian Біла Церква; Russian Белая Церковь / Belaya Tserkov ) is a city in the Kiev Oblast of Ukraine. It is located about 80 kilometers south of Kiev on the Ros with about 200,000 inhabitants.
- 3.1 Sons and daughters of the town
- 3.2 Connected with the city
History
The city, whose name literally means White Church, was founded in 1032 by Grand Duke of Kiev Yaroslav I.. From 1363 it belonged to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania since 1569 with Poland. 1651 here an agreement between Poland and insurgent Ukrainian Cossacks under Bohdan Khmelnytsky was signed.
After the third partition of Poland in 1795, the city came to the Russian Empire. In the 19th century Bila Tserkva was an important market town. In the Soviet Union was Bila Tserkva into a major industrial center ( engineering, construction industry).
During the German occupation of the city during the Second World War there were 90 Jewish children killed at the age of one to seven years through the use of Group C on the orders of Field Marshal Walter von Reichenau.
In Bila Tserkva is a large and beautiful garden named Alexandria ( 200 acres ), which was already in 1793 on the orders of the wife of the Polish hetman Franciszek Ksawery Branicki.
Population Development
Development of the population ( as of 2004 as of January 1 each )
Twinning
- Russia Noginsk, Russia, since 1996
- China People's Republic of Xinzhou, People's Republic of China, since 1997
- Georgia Senaki, Georgia, since 1997
- Belarus Borisov, Belarus, since 1998
- Poland Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, Poland, since 2001
- Ukraine Kremenchug, Ukraine, since 2001
- Púchov Slovakia, Slovakia, since 2004
- Russia Podolsk, Russia, since 2007
- Poland Tarnów, Poland, since 2007
- Rajon Solomjanka Ukraine, Ukraine, since 2009
- Montenegro Bijelo Polje, Montenegro, since 2011
- Lithuania Vilnius, Lithuania, since 2011
Personalities
Sons and daughters of the town
Arranged by year of birth
- Isidor Hilberg (1852-1919), Hellenist, Rector of the University of Czernowitz
- Sholem Aleichem (1859-1916), Yiddish writer
- David Bronstein (1924-2006), chess grandmaster, Vice World Champion 1951
- Artur Dmitriev Valeryevich ( born 1968 ), figure skater
- Theophanes Galinsky (* 1954), Russian Orthodox Archbishop of Berlin and Germany
- Yuri Vladimirovich Linnik (1915-1972), Russian mathematician
- Alexander Vasilyevich Medved ( born 1937 ), wrestler and White Russian sports official
- Boris Samoilowitsch Jampolski (1912-1972), journalist and writer
- Lyudmila Pavlichenko (1916-1974), Soviet sniper
- Jossele Rosenblatt (1882-1933), Ukrainian- Jewish hazzan ( cantor ) and composer
Connected to the city
- Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov (1887-1943), Russian biologist