Velykyi Bychkiv
Welykyj Bychkiv (Ukrainian Великий Бичків; Russian Великий Бычков / Velikiy Bychkov, rare German wholesale Botschko, Czech Veliký Bočkov, Slovak Velky Bočkov, Bočková, Hungarian Nagybocskó, Romanian Bocicoiu Mare ) is an urban-type settlement in the Western Ukraine ( Transcarpathian Oblast, Rajon Rakhov ) about 36 kilometers east of the city Tyachiv.
The approximately 9400 inhabitants village lies in the valley of the Tisza river at the confluence with the river Schopurka ( Шопурка ).
History
The town was first mentioned in writing in 1358 as Buchku and is derived from the Slavic word for " bull" from. In 1556 he came under the rule of the Báthorys 1711 was in place already a stately seat with the abortive uprising led by Francis II Rákóczi and the associated displacement and refugee movements to German settled in the vicinity of the place. It arose in the course of time three distinct settlements: Nagybocskó and Kisbocskó ( " large scale" and " small " Botschko ), which today Welykyj Bychkiv account and Németbocskó ( " German Botschko "), which lies on the southern side of the river on Romanian territory and there Bocicoiu Mare is called. 1910, of the Kingdom of Hungary in the county Máramaros lying place 5,955 inhabitants, of whom 3,078 were Ruthenians, 1,646 Hungarians and 1,177 German. After the end of World War II, he came to the newly created Czechoslovakia (as part of the Carpathian Ukraine) and was ceded to the end of the Second World War to the USSR. In 1947, the place obtained the status of an urban-type settlement.
There is in place a chemical plant, a sulfuric acid plant as well as a salt refinery. Between 1970 and 1998 there was also a rail connection to the railway line Teresva - Welykyj Bychkiv and a Built in 1930, the forest path which led to the North and the earlier, also based in the town of Forestry supported.
Personalities
- Theodore Romscha (1911-1947), Bishop and Apostolic Administrator
- Ivan Jaremtschuk (born 1962 ), football player