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Deliatyn (, ; ), is a rural settlement in Nadvirna Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine. It is located west of Chernivtsi and west-southwest of Kyiv. Shtetl Delatyn Together with Yaremche and Lanchyn it is part of a small agglomeration that runs along the Prut River valley between the Carpathian Mountains. Deliatyn hosts the administration of Deliatyn settlement hromada, one of the of Ukraine. The population is
Deliatyn is first mentioned in documents on March 9, 1400. In 1554 Deliatyn received the status of a city, and from 1579 the status of a city with Magdeburg rights. The economic basis for the development of Deliatyn was the extraction of salt and salt production.
In 1940 it received the status of an urban-type settlement,Deliatin // Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia. volume 3. Kyiv, "Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia", 1980. p. 297 and on November 13, 1940, it entered the .Deliatin // Great Soviet Encyclopedia. / Red coll., ch. ed. B. A. Vvedenskyi. 2nd edition volume 13. M., State scientific publishing house "Great Soviet Encyclopedia", 1952. p.647 From December 30, 1962, it was part of the Bohorodchany Raion, but Deliatyn was assigned to the Nadvirna Raion.Делятін // Українська Радянська Енциклопедія. том 3. Київ, "Українська Радянська енциклопедія", 1980. стор.297 On August 17, 2017, it became the center of the Deliatyn settlement hromada.
On January 17, 1940, was separated from . In 1940 it received the status of an urban-type settlement,Deliatin // Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia. volume 3. Kyiv, "Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia", 1980. p. 297 and on November 13, 1940, Deliatyn Raion was liquidated and entered the .Deliatin // Great Soviet Encyclopedia. / Red coll., ch. ed. B. A. Vvedenskyi. 2nd edition volume 13. M., State scientific publishing house "Great Soviet Encyclopedia", 1952. p.647 From December 30, 1962, it was part of the Bohorodchany Raion, but Deliatyn was assigned to the Nadvirna Raion.Делятін // Українська Радянська Енциклопедія. том 3. Київ, "Українська Радянська енциклопедія", 1980. стор.297
Delatyn was home to a Jewish community until autumn 1941. German archives record mass executions of Jews in the town, carried out by an Einsatzgruppen. On 16 October 1941, the SS, accompanied by the Ukrainian militia and Hungarian Border Guards units shot 1,950 Jews in a forest. Lemberg Later, around 200 Jews were killed in the cemetery. During spring 1942, 3,000 Jews were shot. The remaining 2,000 Jews were deported from Deliatyn to the Bełżec extermination camp at the end of 1942. According to the archives, there was no ghetto in Deliatyn, although according to a witness there was one in the center, surrounded with a fence.
On April 28, 2022, the executive committee of the Deliatyn settlement council, as part of derussification and decommunization in Ukraine, decided to dismantle monuments-busts and memorial signs on the territory of the hromada, including a bust of the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin on the territory of Deliatyn Lyceum No. 3 and a memorial plaque to Soviet soldiers.
Until 26 January 2024, Deliatyn was designated urban-type settlement. On this day, a new law entered into force which abolished this status, and Deliatyn became a rural settlement.
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