Lypovets

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Lipowiec, as it was known in Polish, was granted town rights in the early 17th century. It was a private town, administratively located in the Winnica County in the Bracław Voivodeship in the Lesser Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland.{{cite book|last=Krykun|first=Mykola|year=2012|title=Воєводства Правобережної України у XVI-XVIII століттях: Статті і матеріали|language=uk,pl|page=542|publisher=Ukraïns'kij katolickij unìversitet |isbn=978-617-607-240-9}} It was annexed by the Russian Empire in the Second Partition of Poland in 1793. In 1802, it became the administrative center of Lypovets uyezd in Kiev Governorate.{{cite book|author= |title=Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich, Tom V|year=1884|language=pl|location=Warszawa|page=287}} In the late 19th-century the population was mostly employed in agriculture and grain trade, which was sold mostly to Odesa.

During World War II, Lypovets was the site of a battle between the Soviet Union and the Slovak State. The battle ended with a Slovak victory, with a cumulative casualty count of nearly 700. Afterwards it was occupied by Nazi German troops, from 1941, to 1944. In a field near Lypovets, from the end of April 1942, over 950 Jews were shot by German security forces with the support of local policemen and buried in two mass graves.{{cite web |last1=Рей |first1=Брандон |title=Липовець. Життя та загибель єврейської громади |url=http://www.holocaust.kiev.ua/Files/zah_pam/Lypovets.pdf |website=www.holocaust.kiev.ua |publisher=Київ: УЦВІГ, 2019 |access-date=20 October 2023}} To commemorate the extermination, obelisks were erected in the 1950s - on the initiative of Leontii Usharenko, who was pulled out of the pit at the last minute and had to watch his family and acquaintances being murdered. Two memorials were erected at the mass graves of the Jewish victims in 2019 and [https://netzwerk-erinnerung.de/places/lypowez/ ceremonially inaugurated] in September 2019.

Distribution of the population by native language according to the 2001 census:{{cite web | url=https://socialdata.org.ua/projects/mova-2001/ | title=Рідні мови в об'єднаних територіальних громадах України }}

{{Historical populations|align=left|1875|6710|1989|9764|2013|8727|2022|7958

|footnote=Sources:[http://demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/sng89_reg2.php Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989 г. Численность городского населения союзных республик, их территориальных единиц, городских поселений и городских районов по полу]{{Cite web |url=http://database.ukrcensus.gov.ua/PXWEB2007/ukr/publ_new1/2013/sb_nnas_2012.pdf |title=Чисельність наявного населення України на 1 січня 2013 року. Державна служба статистики України. Київ, 2013. стор.43 |access-date=3 October 2019 |archive-date=12 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131012013028/http://database.ukrcensus.gov.ua/PXWEB2007/ukr/publ_new1/2013/sb_nnas_2012.pdf |url-status=dead }}}}

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File:Lypovets 01.jpg|Lypovets district executive committee

File:Lypovets 09.jpg|Sports ground

File:Lypovets 40.jpg|Employment centre in Lypovets

File:Lypovets 41.jpg|Palace of culture

• Pyotr Stolyarsky (1871 – 1944), Soviet violinist and pedagogue

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• [http://lypovets.com.ua Website «Наш Липовець»]
• [http://www.yadvashem.org/untoldstories/database/index.asp?cid=749 The murder of the Jews of Lypovets] during World War II, at Yad Vashem website.

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Category:Lipovetsky Uyezd

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