Radekhiv

Radekhiv is a city in Chervonohrad Raion, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine. Located on the flat and undulating terrain of the Nadbužany basin, above the river Ostrivka - a tributary of the Styr. The main European watershed passes through the city.

The population is 9,750 inhabitants. According to statistics, in 1880 there were 3,555 inhabitants in Radekhiv, and in 2001 - 9,230. In 2020, 13.1 thousand people.

Radekhov's coat of arms

Panorama of Radekhiv

The history of the city is over 5 centuries. Initially, Radekhiv was a settlement, later a village, in the twentieth century (until 1939) - a county town, and after the liberation of western Ukraine and their inclusion in the USSR received the status of a city. After the proclamation of Ukraine's independence, the city became the administrative center of the district of the same name. In 2020, after a change in the administrative-territorial structure, it lost the status of a district center.

According to folk etymology, the name "Radekhiv" is explained by the phrase "happy to hide", because people often had to hide from enemies in forests, swamps and reeds. However, local ethnographers claim that the name of the city has anthroponymic origin: "Radekh" from "Radoslav", "Radolyub" and so on.

The first written mention of Radekhiv dates back to 1472. The territory where the city was founded was part of the Belz principality, which was formed around 1170 and belonged first to Volodymyr-Volynskyi and then to Halyts'kyi-Volynskyi. books.

At the beginning of the XVIII century Radekhiv passed into the possession of Count Mir. In Radekhiv, the count built a large palace, which became the center of the magnate's latifundia. Trade gradually began to revive in the town, which turned it into a city.

In the second half of the 19th century, the Radekhiv Latifundia passed to the family of Count Badeni, who married Mira's daughter. Badeni was considered the seventh of the ten richest magnates in Galicia and was the viceroy of the Austrian emperor in Galicia. He rebuilt and expanded the palace, planted a park, built a greenhouse and ordered to fence his property with a three-meter stone wall. Count Badeni, a father who did much to enrich himself. At that time there were small industrial and trade firms in Radekhiv. In 1910, the construction of the Baden-funded Lviv-Stoyaniv railway was completed in Radekhiv.

According to statistics, in 1880 in Radekhiv lived 3555 people. It is known that 129 people served at the public court.

At the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries, there were a number of public organizations in Radekhiv, in particular the Farmer's Society. For 16 years, the School Friends of Money Association has been operating to provide material assistance to poor children, regardless of their nationality or religion. The Brotherhood of Sobriety also operated.

The Enlightenment Society has been active since the second half of the 19th century. It aimed to protect the interests of the Ukrainian language and culture and to raise the level of education of the local Ukrainian population. The reading room in Radekhiv itself was opened in May 1897.

In November 1912 the solemn consecration of the People's House took place. Nowadays, this building houses the Radekhiv Central Library under the City Council. In the People's House there was an industrial school, a folk school, a society "Native School", "Education", "Farmer".

At the end of 2018, Radekhiv became the administrative center of the united territorial community.

On the territory of the city there are large industrial producers:

• Radekhiv Sugar LLC
• PJSC "Galychyna" (dairy plant)
• Mebel-Service LLC (furniture factory)

• DNZ № 2
• DNZ № 3

• Radekhiv basic institution of general secondary education of Lviv region
• Radekhiv Secondary School of I-III grades № 1
• Radekhiv Secondary School of I-III grades № 2
• Radekhiv specialized secondary school with in-depth study of a foreign language
• Igor Bilozir Music School
• Radekhiv District School of Arts named after Andrei Sheptytsky

The H17 highway (Lviv-Radekhiv-Lutsk) and the T 1410 Chervonohrad-Radekhiv highway pass through Radekhiv. The city still has a railway connection from Lviv, Lutsk, Chernivtsi.

There is a monument to Taras Shevchenko in the city. In 2008, the figure of Jesus Christ was inaugurated and consecrated. Also in the center near the Market Square is a figure of an angel with a sword, which preserves the peace of the city.

• Church of St. Nicholas (1918)
• Church of St. Nicholas (New) (1998)
• City Council Building (1910)
• The building of the old People's House (1912)
• School of Arts Building (1910)
• Market Square (19th century)
• Remains of the palace walls (XIX century)
• Remains of a park greenhouse (XIX century)
• The building of the former county eldership (now - SZSh № 1)
• Children's hospital building (XX century)
• Synagogue (XVII century)
• The cellars of Count Badeni
• The historical part of Lesia Ukrainka Street
• Historical and memorial complex "Old Cemetery", located behind the clinic.

Many famous Ukrainian figures were born in Radekhiv region:

• Teodor Dmytrovych Mykytyn, a modern Ukrainian writer, was born in Radekhiv in 1913. Today he is a well-known author of historical novels "Under the city walls", "Regiments go to Halych", "Nad Kodatok", "Danilo Nechay".
• Bale Virko Petrovich was born in Radekhiv in 1938. He is a well-known composer, pianist, music critic, and researcher of Ukrainian musical culture in the United States.
• Yaroslav Ivanovych Sereda was born in Radekhiv. He is a well-known specialist in the field of petrochemistry and a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
• A native of Radekhiv is Ganitkevych Yaroslav Volodymyrovych (1929) - Ukrainian physiologist, historian of medicine, doctor of medical sciences.
• Ukrainian composer and performer, People's Artist of Ukraine, leader of VIA Vatra Ihor Bilozir was born in Radekhiv. Author of popular songs and real hits: "Wheat Oar", "Room", "From God", "First Snow", "Wedding March", "Do not rash, darling, glass". Leader of VIA "Fire".
• Vsevolod Iskiv, a historian and Ukrainian public and political figure, was born here on August 2, 1951. Founder of the Taras Shevchenko Ukrainian Language Society and the People's Movement of Ukraine (1989).
• The outstanding writer Osip Turyansky was also born
• Makitra Hryhoriy Tadeiovych (1891–1942) was a Ukrainian pedagogue and cornet player at the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences.

Lukyanenko Levko Hryhorovych - Ukrainian politician and public figure, Soviet dissident and co-founder of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group was a regular propagandist of the party's district committee in Radekhiv district from September 1958 to 1961. During his stay in the city, he constantly traveled to the villages of the district and saw the state of affairs there. In the course of this, Lukyanenko, together with Stepan Virun and Vasyl Lutskiv, decided to create an underground party, the Ukrainian Workers 'and Peasants' Union. Polish public figure, politician, Count Stanislaw Badeni is buried in Radekhiv.

School of Arts. Andrei Sheptytsky

The building of the Radekhiv branch of the UNPU in the Lviv region

Church of St. Nicholas

Radekhiv Central Library at the City Council (former People's House building)

Children's hospital

City council building

Orangery

Church of St. Nicholas (Old)

Monument to Shevchenko

Panorama of historic buildings on the street. Lviv