Vynnyky

From the mid-14th century until the Partitions of Poland, Vynnyky (called Winniki in Polish) belonged to the Ruthenian Voivodeship of the Kingdom of Poland. From 1772 to 1918, it was part of Austrian Galicia, and in the interbellum period, the town returned to Poland, as part of the Lwow Voivodeship. In 1925 the city had 6,000 residents, out of which 3,300 were Polish, 2,150 Ruthenian (Ukrainian), 350 Jewish, and 200 German.

The first sculptural monument to Ukrainian national poet Taras Shevchenko was opened in Vynnyky on 28 September 1913, financed by the local Prosvita society. The unveiling ceremony was attended by prominent members of Galicia's Ukrainian community, including committee leader Volodymyr Levytsky, Austrian parliament member Yevhen Olesnytsky and poet Bohdan Lepky. The monument was destroyed in 1919 during the Polish-Ukrainian War.^[3]

During the 1950s Vynnyky served as a district centre of Lviv Oblast.^[4] From 1959^[5] and until 18 July 2020, Vynnyky belonged to Lviv Municipality. The municipality was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Lviv Oblast to seven. The area of Lviv Municipality was merged into the newly established Lviv Raion.^[6][7]

A tobacco factory operates in the city.^[4]

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  Church of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist
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  Stores and cigarette factory

• Andreas Bolek (1894–1945); Austrian Nazi
• Lyubomyr Dmyterko (1911–1985) – Soviet and Ukrainian poet, writer, playwright
• Myron Markevych — Ukrainian football manager
• Antoni Laub – Polish painter
• Katrya Hrynevycheva – Ukrainian writer and community leader
• Robert Reyman – general of the Polish Army
• Jerzy Rosolowicz – Polish painter