Yaremche

Yaremche (Ukrainian and Russian Яремче; Polish Jaremcze - rarely also Jaremcza or older Jaremze ) is a town and summer resort in the western Ukraine, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast in the upper reaches of the Prut River on the north side of the Carpathian Mountains, located about 54 kilometers from Ivano- Frankivsk. The city municipality (population: 20821 ) include not only the actual town nor the urban-type settlement Worochta well as the 5 villages Woronenko ( Вороненко ) Mykulytschyn ( Микуличин ) Polyanytsya ( Поляниця ) Tatariv ( Татарів ) and Yablunytsya ( Яблуниця ).

History

The village was founded in the late 18th century (first mentioned 1787) under Austrian administration in the crown land Galicia, but ( railway Sighetu Marmaţiei - Ivano -Frankivsk ) and the establishment of a station from 1894 developed until after the arrival of the railway in a larger village. After the end of the 1st World War, the city became part of Poland and was upgraded to a health resort, it was here especially tuberculosis diseases treated in the late 1920s, there were already 6000 spa guests annually. It was because of its picturesque location in the Carpathians known as the " Pearl of the Carpathians ". 1939 Yaremche was occupied by the Red Army, but came in 1941, after the invasion of the Soviet Union under German administration and was conquered until 1945 by the Soviet Union and then remained in the Ukrainian SSR respectively since 1991 a part of the Ukraine. Under Soviet rule, the town was renamed Jaremtscha ( Яремча ), carried on the tradition of the resort, there were added many new hotels. Since 1963 the place has the status of a city under Oblastverwaltung, joined him are 1 urban-type settlement and 5 villages that exist as enclaves in the midst of Rajons Nadvirna. By a decision of the Verkhovna Rada of the name of the city on 14 November 2006 was changed to " Yaremche " again.