Ananiv

Ananiv (Ukrainian: Ананьїв, pronounced [ɐˈnɑnʲjiu̯] ^ⓘ; Russian: Ананьев, romanized: Ananyev; Yiddish: אַנאַניעוו, romanized: Ananiev; Romanian: Ananiev, also Nani) is a city of Podilsk Raion in Odesa Oblast, Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Ananiv urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.^[1] Ananiv stands on the Tylihul River. According to the 2001 census, the majority of the population of Ananiv was Ukrainian -speaking (87.88%), with Russian (9.43%) and Romanian (2.08%) speakers in the minority.^[2] Population: 7,626 (2022 estimate).^[3]

Ananiv Ананьїв
City
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Coordinates: 47°43′N 29°58′E
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Odesa Oblast
Raion	Podilsk Raion
Hromada	Ananiv urban hromada
Population  (2022)
• Total	7,626
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Area code	+380 4863
Climate	Dfb

History

The town belonged to Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic from 1924 to 1940.

Until 18 July 2020, Ananiv was the administrative center of Ananiv Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Odesa Oblast to seven. The area of Ananiv Raion was merged into Podilsk Raion.^[4][5]

Jewish history

The text indicates: "Here are buried more than 350 Jews, elderly, women and children, victims of the Nazi genocide"

Jews settled in Ananiv since the 19th century. In 1820, the Jewish community in town owned a synagogue and a cemetery,^[6] which no longer exists, though the new cemetery from the 20th century can be visited.^[7] The Surnames on the gravestones are still visible and documented online.^[8] Photos of the town Jews from the beginning of the 20th century are also visible online.^[9] In April 1887, a mob attacked and destroyed 175 Jewish homes and 14 shops.^[7]

In 1897, 50% of the town population was Jewish.^[10] During 1919, two pogroms in town resulted in more than 40 dead Jews.^[10] Under Romanian occupation, more than 330 of the town Jews were killed by Einsatzgruppen 10b.^[11] In October 1941, 300 out of the 445 left town. Jews were murdered in nearby Mostove, and the rest a month later in Gvozdiovka. One of these two mass graves is signed^[12] in Ukrainian and open to public.^[13] In 1990, 30 Jews lived in Ananiv.^[7]

Demographics

According to the 2001 Ukrainian census, Ananiv had a population of 9,355 inhabitants. Ethnic Ukrainians account for almost 90% of the population, 7% declared an ethnic Russian background, and a bit less than 4% of the population referred to themselves as Moldovans. The exact distribution of the population by ethnicity was:^[14]

Ethnic composition of Ananiv percent Ukrainians   87.63% Russians   7.32% Moldovans   3.57% Belarusians   0.32% Bulgarians   0.30% Armenians   0.19% Ashkenazi Jews   0.13% Gagauz   0.11%

Notable people

• Mykola Vilinsky

Gallery

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  Panorama of Ananiv
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  County hospital in Ananiv
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  Monument of Nishchynskyi in the city of Ananiv