Lymans'ke
Encyclopedia
Lymans'ke is a town in the Rozdilnianskyi Raion
of the Odessa Oblast
in Ukraine
. It is located along the east side of the Kuchurhan Reservoir on the border with Transnistria
in Moldova
.
A village called Selz (named after Seltz
in Alsace) was established at this location along the Kutschurgan Liman
in 1808 by Roman Catholic German
and Alsatian
(French citizens) immigrants to the Kutschurgan Valley, then part of the Russian Empire
. It received its present name after the remaining German residents were driven from the area by the advancing Soviet
army in 1944. The former German villages of Baden
and Kandel located just to the north and south, respectively, of Selz have been absorbed into the current Ukrainian town.
Rozdilnianskyi Raion
The Rozdilna Raion is located in the Odessa Oblast of Ukraine. Its administrative center is the city of Rozdilna. The population of the district was 56,897 in 2001...
of the Odessa Oblast
Odessa Oblast
Odesa Oblast, also written as Odessa Oblast , is the southernmost and largest oblast of south-western Ukraine. The administrative center of the oblast is the city of Odessa.-History:...
in Ukraine
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...
. It is located along the east side of the Kuchurhan Reservoir on the border with Transnistria
Transnistria
Transnistria is a breakaway territory located mostly on a strip of land between the Dniester River and the eastern Moldovan border to Ukraine...
in Moldova
Moldova
Moldova , officially the Republic of Moldova is a landlocked state in Eastern Europe, located between Romania to the West and Ukraine to the North, East and South. It declared itself an independent state with the same boundaries as the preceding Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1991, as part...
.
A village called Selz (named after Seltz
Seltz
Seltz is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department of the Alsace region in north-eastern France. It is located on the Sauer river near its confluence with the Rhine, opposite the German town of Rastatt.-History:...
in Alsace) was established at this location along the Kutschurgan Liman
Liman (landform)
Liman is a name for a lake, bay, or estuary formed at the mouth of a river where flow is blocked by a bar of sediments. Liman can be maritime or fluvial .The name is used for such features found along the western and northern coast of the Black Sea, as well as along...
in 1808 by Roman Catholic German
Black Sea Germans
The Black Sea Germans are ethnic Germans who left their homeland in the 18th and 19th centuries, and settled in territories off the north coast of the Black Sea, mostly in southern Ukraine...
and Alsatian
Alsace
Alsace is the fifth-smallest of the 27 regions of France in land area , and the smallest in metropolitan France. It is also the seventh-most densely populated region in France and third most densely populated region in metropolitan France, with ca. 220 inhabitants per km²...
(French citizens) immigrants to the Kutschurgan Valley, then part of the Russian Empire
Russian Empire
The Russian Empire was a state that existed from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917. It was the successor to the Tsardom of Russia and the predecessor of the Soviet Union...
. It received its present name after the remaining German residents were driven from the area by the advancing Soviet
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
army in 1944. The former German villages of Baden
Baden, Ukraine
Baden was a village on the eastern shore of the Kuchurhan Liman. It is now part of the Ukrainian town of Lymans'ke in the Rozdilnianskyi Raion of the Odessa Oblast....
and Kandel located just to the north and south, respectively, of Selz have been absorbed into the current Ukrainian town.