Yasinia

Jassinja (Ukrainian Ясіня; Russian Ясиня, russinisch Єсінє / Jesinje, Slovak Jasina, Hungarian Kőrösmező, Romanian Frasin ) is an urban-type settlement in western Ukraine.

Geography

The place is located in the far east of the Transcarpathian Oblast, near the border with the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast in Rajon Rakhov at the Black Tisza ( Чорна Тиса ) and their association with the river Laseschtschyna ( Лазещина ). He is surrounded by the mountains of Chornohora and the Swydiwez Massif and is the center of Hutsul, a tribe in the Carpathian Mountains. The settlement community is one next to the settlement and the village Stebnyj ( Стебний ).

Infrastructure

Through the town, the railway Sighetu Marmaţiei - Ivano -Frankivsk, and the important regional road R03 from Rakhov to Yaremche which lead (also called tartar Pass) both on the Jablunyzkyj pass in the rest of Ukraine runs.

Attractions

In the village there is an old wooden church, which was recorded together with other Ukrainian and Polish wooden churches in the northern Carpathians in 2013 in the UNESCO World Heritage Site.

History

The place, whose name means " ash " means in German, was first mentioned in writing in 1555 as Kreusmezew. Until 1919 he was part of Hungary, in the county Máramaros, then briefly capital of the Huzulenrepublik and finally to 1939 a part of Czechoslovakia. From this time the spell After 1945 comes "Od Jasini do Aše republika per naše " ( " From Jassinja to Asch part of the Republic of us"). Lived here in 1910 officially 9795 inhabitants of which russinischsprachig 6824, 1484 and 1461 were German-speaking Hungarian-. A part of the Soviet Union, he received in 1947 the Statute of the urban-type settlement.