Lokachi ( Ukrainian : Локачі , Polish : Łokacze ) is a rural settlement in Volyn Oblast (province), located in the historic region of the Volhynia . It is an administrative seat of the Lokachi settlement hromada . Population: 3,698 (2022 estimate)
5-859: It was a settlement in Vladimir-Volynsky Uyezd in Volhynian Governorate of the Russian Empire . In June 1916, during the First World War, there was fighting in the vicinity between the forces of the Russian and Austrian Empires. This was part of the Brusilov Offensive. In 1921, the Jewish population of the village was 1,265. The total population of the town in 1937 was 1,790. The Axis occupied
10-530: The northwest the uyezd bordered Siedlce Governorate , to the north - Grodno Governorate . Its eastern borders were mutual with three other uyezds of the Volhynian Governorate - Kovelsky Uyezd (northeast), Lutsky Uyezd (east), Dubnovsky Uyezd - southeast. The uyezd was subdivided into 23 volosts which were further subdivided into 337 obshchinas (communes). At the time of the Russian Empire Census of 1897, Vladimir-Volynsky Uyezd had
15-417: The population was 4118 people. Until 26 January 2024, Lokachi was designated urban-type settlement . On this day, a new law entered into force which abolished this status, and Lokachi became a rural settlement. Vladimir-Volynsky Uyezd Vladimir-Volynsky Uyezd ( Russian : Владимир-Волынский уезд ) was an administrative subdivision (an uyezd ) of Volhynian Governorate in the Russian Empire . It
20-717: The town in June 1941. A Judenrat was soon established. The Jews were forced to move to a ghetto in November 1941. The ghetto started to be closed in with a fence in February 1942. Many Jews of the ghetto were subjected to forced labor. On September 9, 1942, the German gendarmerie and the Ukrainian police liquidated the ghetto. More than 1,500 Jews were killed in a grave. A local newspaper is published here since 1945. In January 1989
25-668: Was created in 1795 as Vladimirsky Uyezd within Volhynian Viceroyalty soon after the annexation of eastern Poland by Russia. Its seat was located in Volodymyr (Vladimir-Volynsky). The uyezd was located at the western end of the governorate . To its south and southwest it bordered the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria of Austria-Hungary , to the west - Lublin Governorate of Congress Poland ( Russian Empire ), to
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