Kuty

Kuty (Ukrainian Кути; Куты Russian, Romanian Cuturi, German rarely cowls ) is about 80 kilometers southeast of the Oblasthauptstadt Ivano -Frankivsk on the river Cheremosh a lying in western Ukraine urban-type settlement. The place belongs to the historical landscape Pokutien, on the opposite side lies the town Wyschnyzja, both villages are connected by a bridge.

The town was first mentioned in writing in 1469, in 1715 he also received officially awarded city rights, this although he lost again in 1782. Kuty belonged from 1774 to 1918 for Austrian Galicia and was from 1850 to 1867 the seat of a district team. After the end of World War I he joined the Kuty to Poland and was occupied during the Second World War only by the Soviet Union and from 1941 to 1944 from Germany. Between 1930 and 1944 there was also a railway station with connections to the still existing railway line Sawallja - Wyschnyzja in place.

1945, the city again came to the Soviet Union, where they became part of the Ukrainian SSR, since 1991 a part of today's Ukraine.

The place was until 1945 a center of Polish Armenians, in the resort but lived as many Jews and Ukrainians.