Vyzhnytsia

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| native_name = Вижниця

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| subdivision_name2 = Vyzhnytsia Raion

| established_title = First mentioned

| established_date = 1158

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| leader_name = Alex G. Chepil

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| website = {{URL|vnmiscrada.gov.ua/}}

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Vyzhnytsia ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|v|ɪ|ʒ|n|ɪ|t|s|(|j|)|ə}}; {{Langx|uk|Вижниця}}, {{IPA|uk|ˈwɪʒnɪtsʲɐ|ipa|audio=LL-Q8798 (ukr)-Gzhegozh-Вижниця.wav}}; {{langx|de|link=no|Wischnitz}}; {{langx|pl|Wyżnica}}; {{langx|ro|Vijnița}}; {{Langx|ru|Вижница|Vizhnitsa}}; {{Langx|yi|{{Script/Hebrew|וויזשניץ}}|Vizhnitz}}) is a small city located in the historical region of Bukovina, on the Cheremosh River in Chernivtsi Oblast of western Ukraine. It is the administrative center of Vyzhnytsia Raion. Vyzhnytsia hosts the administration of Vyzhnytsia urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.{{cite web |title=Вижницкая городская громада |url=https://gromada.info/ru/obschina/vyzhnycka/ |publisher=Портал об'єднаних громад України |language=Russian}} Population: {{Ua-pop-est2022|3,803|punct=.}}

History

While the city was probably mentioned as early as 1158, the first unequivocal mention comes in 1501 in a Moldavian chronicle. From 1514 to 1574 the place was occupied by the Turks, after which it belonged to the Principality of Moldova until 1774. From 1774 to 1918 he was part of the Austrian Empire (from 1849 part of the crown land of Bukovina).

= Jewish history of the town =

In Judaism, the town is known as having been the original center of the Hassidic sect bearing its Yiddish name ({{Lang|yi|{{Script/Hebrew|וויזשניץ}}}} Vizhnitz). The town's Jewish community was decimated in the Holocaust and most survivors did not return, but the flourishing Vizhnitz Hassidic community in Israel and the United States continues to keep the name.

Until World War I, the town was named Wischnitz and was part of Austria-Hungary.

File:Вижниця_Будинок,_в_якому_народився_і_проживав_Яремчук.jpg's native house in modern-day Vyzhnytsia]]

= Part of Soviet Ukraine =

Vyzhnytsa has been a city since 1940.Вижница // Большой энциклопедический словарь (в 2-х тт.). / редколл., гл. ред. А. М. Прохоров. том 1. М., "Советская энциклопедия", 1991. стр.218 A local newspaper has been published in the city since February 1945.№ 3265. Советская Верховина // Летопись периодических и продолжающихся изданий СССР 1986 – 1990. Часть 2. Газеты. М., "Книжная палата", 1994. стр.426

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Vyzhnytsa was the center of a flourishing Ukrainian-language music scene that was renowned all over the Soviet Union. The local house of culture was renowned for its parties with illegal Western pop music and attracted young people from as far as Chernivtsi.{{cite web |last1=Feshchuk |first1=Nataliya |title="заслушавшись выступлением ансамбля "смерiчка" в прямом эфире, руководство центрального телевидения ссср на 15 минут задержало программу "время" |url=https://crime.fakty.ua/51863-quot-zaslushavshis-vystupleniem-ansamblya-quot-smerichka-quot-v-pryamom-efire-rukovodstvo-centralnogo-televideniya-sssr-na-15-minut-zaderzhalo-programmu-quot-vremya-quot |website=Fakty.ua |access-date=9 February 2021 |date=27 December 2006}} Volodymyr Ivasyuk was named as a regular visitor of these parties. There, he befriended musician Levko Dutkivskiy.{{cite web |last1=Feshchuk |first1=Nataliya |title="Івасюк зізнався, що стиль "Смерічки" його захопив" |url=https://zbruc.eu/node/68378 |website=Zbruc |date=14 July 2017 |access-date=9 February 2021}} Dutkivskiy from there on founded VIA Smerichka, with later Nazariy Yaremchuk and Vasyl Zinkevych as lead singers. Smerichka became one of Ukraine's most famous groups at the time, performing at Pesnya goda twice and winning Allo, my ishchem talanty! (Hello, we are looking for talents!) in 1972, one of the first Soviet television talent shows.{{cite web |last1=Etushenko |first1=Aleksandr |date=2005-10-04 |title="Смерічка" і "Золота колекція" |url=https://m.day.kyiv.ua/uk/article/taym-aut/smerichka-i-zolota-kolekciya |access-date=9 February 2021 |website=Den'}}

= Part of modern Ukraine =

In January 1989 the population was 5708 people.{{Cite web|url=http://www.demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/sng89_reg2.php|title=Демоскоп Weekly - Приложение. Справочник статистических показателей.|website=www.demoscope.ru}}

In 2011 a security checkpoint "Vyzhnytsia" was built here.[http://www.2000.ua/novosti/za-rulem/gde-v-ukraine-raspolozheny-statsionarnye-posty-dps-gai_arhiv.htm Где в Украине расположены стационарные посты ДПС ГАИ] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200323141112/http://www.2000.ua/novosti/za-rulem/gde-v-ukraine-raspolozheny-statsionarnye-posty-dps-gai_arhiv.htm |date=23 March 2020 }} // еженедельник "2000" от 7 мая 2012

In January 2013 the population was 4207 people.{{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.108|access-date=1 August 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}}