Svaliava

Svaliava
Svaliava; Свалява
	City of district significance
	Svaliava Center. Main Street view.
; Flag	; Coat of arms
	Svaliava Location of Svaliava
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Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Zakarpattia Oblast
Raion	Svaliava Raion
Founded	12th century
Incorporated	1957
Government
• Mayor	Ivan Lanyo
Population (2013)
• Total	17,027
• Density	1,626.720/km2 (4,213.19/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code	89300
Area code(s)	+380-3133
Climate	Dfb
Website	http://www.svalyava.org/

Svaliava (Ukrainian: Свалява) is a city located on the Latorytsia River in Zakarpattia Oblast in western Ukraine. It is the administrative center of Svaliava Raion (district). Martha-Margarita Island (Ukrainian: острів Марта-Маргарита) on the Latorytsia is located inside Svaliava. Population: 17,027 (2013 est.)^[1].

Names

There are several alternative names used for this city: Rusyn: Свалява, German: Schwalbach or Schwallbach, Hungarian: Szolyva, Slovak: Svaľava, Romanian: Svaliava, Russian: Свалява.

Demographics

At the 2001 census, the population included: [1]

Ukrainians (94.5%)
Russians (1.5%)
Hungarians (0.7%)
Slovaks (0.6%)

History

According to the census of 1910, 47.1% of the population was Greek Catholic, 26.2% Jewish and 22.9% Roman Catholic. The Jewish population was deported to Auschwitz by the Hungarian government in May 1944 and murdered by the Germans.

After the second World War a concentration camp was working near the town. Hungarian and German-born civilians (born between 1896 and 1926) were carried off by Soviet forces to the camp purely on the basis of their nationality. They were ordered to report for "malenkij robot" (a corrupted Russian for "small work"), but most of them – more than 10 thousands deportees were killed in the camp. The site of the camp is now a memorial park established in 1994. ^[2]