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Following the partitions of Poland and the annexation of Volhynia by the Russian Empire in 1795, it was called Volodymyr-Volynskyi (Vladimir-Volynsky) to distinguish it from Vladimir-on-Klyazma. The name was not in use between 1919 and 1939 when the city was again part of Poland.
Volodymyr-Volynskyi [Volodymyr-Volyns’kyj]. Map: III-5.A city (2001 pop 38,300) on the Luha River and a raion center in Volhynia oblast. One of Ukraine's oldest cities, it is first mentioned in the chronicles under the year 988, as the fortified trading town of Volodymyr and the seat of an eparchy (see Volodymyr-Volynskyi eparchy).
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Translation. A city on the Luga River (a tributary of the West Bug), Volodymyr Volyns’kyi (Pol., Włodzimierz; Yid., Ludmir; Latinized as Lodomeria) is the district center of Ukraine ’s Volyn’ oblast. An important regional center of Volhynia since the tenth century, it passed in 1319 to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, in 1569 to the Polish ...
Sep 25, 2023 · The Rurik dynasty established the Principality of Volhynia in Ruthenia in 987 A.D. It was populated by Eastern Slavs, and the capital Volodymyr-Volynskyi was named in honor of Saint Vladimir the Great, Prince of Novgorod, and Grand Prince of Kyiv (c. 958-1015).
Volodymyr-Volynskyi is 550 km far from Kyiv, 150 km far from Lviv, 76 km far from Lutsk – the Volyn Region center, 50 km far from Kovel – railway junction, 15 km far from the Polish border, 100 km far from the Belarus border, 800 km far from Odessa sea port. It used to be called Volodymyr till 1795.
As it turned out, there are mass graves on the outskirts of the village of Piatydni, next to Volodymyr-Volynskyi, where the Nazis shot the Jewish population of the city of Volodymyr-Volynskyi and surrounding villages during the Second World War. The graves were in a neglected state, meaning that they had, in fact, been turned into a garbage dump.
The Rabbi of Volodymyr-Volynskyi at that time was Yitzhok Grosman, who was succeeded in the 1930s by Yaakov Dovid Morgenstern, who died during the Nazi occupation. Technical and agricultural schools belonging to the Zionist-oriented Tarbut network opened in Volodymyr: the former was established in 1925 and the latter in 1935.
