Sniatyn Снятин Śniatyn
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Coordinates: 48°27′00″N 25°34′00″E / 48.45000°N 25.56667°E / 48.45000; 25.56667
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast
Raion	Kolomyia Raion
First mentioned	1158
Population  (2022)
• Total	9,718

Sniatyn (Ukrainian: Сня́тин, romanized: Sniatyn; Polish: Śniatyn; Romanian: Sneatîn, older Sniatin; Yiddish: שניאַטין) is a town located in Kolomyia Raion of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, in western Ukraine along the Prut river, in the historic region of Pokutia. Sniatyn hosts the administration of Sniatyn urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.^[1] Population: 9,718 (2022 estimate).^[2] In 2001, population was around 10,500.

In the interbellum period, it was a rail border crossing between Poland and Romania.

History

The first mention of the town is in 1158. Ksniatyn was named after Kostiantyn Stroslavich, a boyar and general of Yaroslav Osmomysl — a prince of medieval Halych Principality. The town was given the Magdeburg Rights in 1448. As a result of the First Partition of Poland, Sniatyn (and Galicia) was attributed to the Habsburg monarchy.^[3] In the interwar period, Śniatyn was part of reborn independent Poland, within which it was a county seat in the Stanisławów Voivodeship.

In 1939, Śniatyn was the temporary seat of American embassy in Poland, as the diplomatic personnel abandoned Warsaw after the first German Nazi bombings at the start of World War II. In mid-September 1939, the Polish gold reserve was evacuated from Warsaw and stored by the Polish government in Śniatyn, before it was eventually further evacuated via Romania to territory of Polish-allied France.^[5] Afterwards, the town was occupied by the Soviet Union until 1941, then by Germany until 1944, and re-occupied by the Soviet Union, which annexed it from Poland in 1945. Nearly all of Sniatyn's Jewish population was murdered during the Holocaust. Many were shot and buried in the local forest. Some died from disease and starvation in the ghetto. Approximately 1,500 people were sent to Belzec.

Until 18 July 2020, Sniatyn was the administrative center of Sniatyn Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast to six. The area of Sniatyn Raion was merged into Kolomyia Raion.^[6][7]

Gallery

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  Shevchenko Street in Sniatyn
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  Church of Ascension
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  Roman Catholic church
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  Church of Archangel Michael's Miracle at Colassai