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Bushtyno

Urban locality in Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine

Urban-type settlement in Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine

Bushtyno Буштино Bustyaháza
Urban-type settlement
Bushtyno center
Flag Coat of arms
48°03′13″N 23°28′36″E / 48.05361°N 23.47667°E / 48.05361; 23.47667
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Zakarpattia Oblast
Raion	Tiachiv Raion
First mentioned	1373
Town status	1957
Government
• Town Head	Ivan Sabadosh
Area
• Total	12 km² (5 sq mi)
Elevation ^[1]	207 m (679 ft)
Population (2022)
• Total	8,444
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code	90556
Area code	+380 3134
Website	http://rada.gov.ua/

Bushtyno (Ukrainian: Буштино [ˈbuʃteno]; Hungarian: Bustyaháza; Romanian: Bustea; Slovak: Buštín; Yiddish: בישטינא) is an urban-type settlement in Tiachiv Raion, Zakarpattia Oblast, western Ukraine.^[2] Bushtyno is located in a small valley where the Tereblia and the Tisza rivers meet.^[3] The town's population was 8,506 as of the 2001 Ukrainian census.^[2] Population: 8,444 (2022 estimate).^[4]

History

The settlement was first mentioned in 1373 as the village of Bushta.^[3] In 1910, the settlement belonged to the Máramaros County of the Kingdom of Hungary. At the time the settlement was known as Bustyaháza, a Hungarian variant of the name, and contained a total of 2,056 inhabitants, the majority of which were Ruthenians.

In 1930, the settlement's Jewish population was 1,042.^[5] In 1957, the settlement was granted the status of an urban-type settlement.^[2] In 1995, the settlement was renamed from Bushtyna (Ukrainian: Буштина) to the current "Bushtyno."^[6]

Rabbi Mordechai Leifer of Nadvorna is buried there.

Notable people

Alina Pash (born 1993), Ukrainian singer and rapper

References

^ "Bushtyno (Zakarpattia Oblast, Tiachiv Raion)". weather.in.ua. Retrieved 19 April 2012.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Bushtyno, Zakarpattia Oblast, Tiachiv Raion". Regions of Ukraine and their Structure (in Ukrainian). Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 19 April 2012.
^ ^a ^b "Bushtyno". Reference on the Carpathians and more (in Ukrainian). КАРПАТИ.INFO. Retrieved 20 April 2012.
^ Чисельність наявного населення України на 1 січня 2022 [Number of Present Population of Ukraine, as of January 1, 2022] (PDF) (in Ukrainian and English). Kyiv: State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 July 2022.
^ "Bushtyno, Ukraine". JewishGen Locality Page. JewishGen. Retrieved 20 April 2012.
^ "Zakarpattia Oblast decree". Organs of self-government: laws regarding the administrative structure (in Ukrainian). Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Retrieved 18 April 2012.^{[permanent dead link]}

External links

Media related to Bushtyno at Wikimedia Commons
"Bushtino". Karpatinfo.net.ua (in Russian). Archived from the original on 19 April 2013. Retrieved 20 April 2012.