The city of Zakarpattia oblast.
Mukachevo (also spelled Mukacheve) is a city located in Zakarpattia oblast of Ukraine. Mukachevo is an important industrial and cultural center of the region. Mukachevo is standing on Latoritsya river.
Mukachevo city has the population of about 95,000 (2010).
The phone code is +380 3131; the postal code is 89600.
Mukachevo settlement was probably the part of Kievan Rus from the 9th to 11th centuries. Mukachevo was captured by Hungarians in 1018. During the 15th century, Mukachevo city became an important craft and trade center of the region. In the 16th century, Mukachevo became the part of Transylvania Principality. In 1646 first gymnasium was established in Mukachevo.
Mukachevo came under control of Austria as part of the Kingdom of Hungary at the end of 18th century. Mukachevo was made a fortress of the Habsburg Monarchy. During 1796-1897 Mukachevo castle was an all-European political prison.
Carpathian Ruthenia region was occupied by Czechoslovak army in 1919. In November 1938 the territory was re-annexed by Hungary as part of the First Vienna Award. In 1944 Mukachevo city Jewish population was deported to concentration camps of Nazi Germany.
Mukachevo was then the only town in Hungary with a Jewish majority until 1944, when all the Jews were deported to Auschwitz by the Eichmann Commando. The Hungarian Jewish community was the last Jewish community in Europe to be subjected to deportation.
Red Army forces captured Carpathian Ruthenia region at the end of 1944. The territory became the part of Soviet Union. USSR began the policy of expulsion of the Hungarian population. In 1945 Mukachevo city became the part of Ukrainian SSR (Ukraine now).
In 2002 Mukachevo city has been the seat of the Roman Catholic diocese comprising Transcarpathia.
Mukachevo city, Ukraine street
Mukachevo city street
Mukachevo city street view
Mukachevo is the second largest and economically developed city in the oblast after its administrative center Uzhgorod. The city is located in the central part of Zakarpattia oblast, 42 km from the regional center.
Due to its very convenient location (40-50 km from the boundaries with Hungary and Slovakia and 90-100 km from the boundaries with Romania and Poland correspondingly), Mukachevo is a transportation juncture of several international main ways.
The city is crossed by railways: Moscow-Kiev-Budapest-Belgrade-Rome and Moscow-Kiev-Bratislava-Prague-Vienna as well as by highways: Kiev-Budapest-Vienna and Kiev-Prague.
Mukachevo developed on the left bank of the river Latoritsa with most of the population and also a railway while the industrial zone is located on south-eastern bank.
In the city there is a House of culture, Zakarpattia state Russian drama theater, City library, a historical museum, a picture gallery, a lot of professional and folk music groups.
Every year in January, after Christmas, a home-made wine festival-contest “Chervene vino” takes place in Mukachevo.
Main places of interest of Mukachevo are:
Mukachevo Roman Catholic church
Mukachevo Orthodox monastery
Mukachevo city church view
Mukachevo city hall
Mukachevo city hotel
Mukachevo city, Ukraine castle
Mukachevo city castle view
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