Kukeziv, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine

🇺🇦 Kukeziv (Кукезів), Novoiarychivska selyshchna hromada, Pustomyty Raion, Ukraine. Kukeziv is a village in Ukraine, in the Lviv district of Lviv region. The local self-government body is the Novoyarychiv Village Council.

There is a church in the village (1928). There is a People's House, library, school, kindergarten, medical institution.

Archaeology Burials of the copper-stone age (III millennium BC) were discovered on the territory of the village.

History The first known owners of the town of Kukizov in Lviv land were the noble family of the Herburt, which was of Saxon origin. The owner of the settlement was the future Belz castellanJan Gerburt, at his request in 1538 King Sigismund I the Old granted permission for the rights of the city of Kukezov.

In the 17th century, Stanislav Zholkevsky received the town as the dowry of his wife, Regina from Herburt. Later, the town passed to the Sobieskis. In 1699, Constantius Wladislav Sobieski, with the permission of King Augustus II, granted Kukezov the privilege of Magdeburg law. The privilege contained a description of the coat of arms, which was allowed to be used by the town: "On a red background, a golden key is placed by a pillar, turned by a beard on the left". The coat of arms somewhat resembled the Polish noble sign "Yasenchyk", but differed from it in the color of the background and, obviously, was a symbolic image of the "key to the city".

After 1772, Kukiziv was attributed by the Austrian government to the Lviv district, and in the 19th century to the Lviv district. As before, it retained the status of the town and the coat of arms, confirmed by the description from 1699, which, in particular, was noted by the "Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland", published in Warsaw in 1880-1895, and the register of F. Kovalyshyna.

At the end of the XVI - at the beginning. In the 17th century, the town became the property of Hetman Stanislav Zholkevsky, and later the Sobieski family. Polish King Jan III Sobieski made Kukeziv his residence, in 1690 he built a palace here. His son Constantine renewed Magdeburg law. During this period, the Kukizov expanded. 1740-1764 — owned by the Radziwill family, 1764-1810 — Yablonovsky, from 1810 — Strzeletsky.

After the 1st division of Poland in 1772, Kukezów was ceded to Austria (from 1867 — Austria-Hungary). 1919–39 — again part of Poland, administratively belonged to the Staroyarychiv Cominin of the Lviv County of the Lviv Voivodeship. In 1921, 423 Ukrainians and 314 Poles lived here. According to the 1931 census, the population was 723 people, of which about 59% of Ukrainians, 35% of Poles and 6% of Jews. In 1939, Kukeziv went to the Ukrainian SSR. From June 1941 to July 1944, he was under German-fascist occupation. The OUN-UPA underground operated in the vicinity until the mid-1950s.