Zabolotiv

Name in Ukrainian: 
Zabolotiv [Заболотiв]
Name in Polish: 
Zabłotów
Name in German: 
Sabolotiw
Name in Russian: 
Заболотов [Zabolotov]
Name in Hebrew: 
זאבלוטוב
Name in Yiddish: 
זאַבלאטאוו
Historical-cultural region: 
Eastern Galicia - Prikarpattia
Administrative District : 
Ivano-Frankivsk District
Administrative History: 

 

Years State Province District
Untill 1772 Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: Kingdom of Poland  

Rus Voivodship (Województwo ruskie)

 Ziemia halicka

Stanislawów starostwo;Sniatyn powiat
1772-1918 "Hapsburg Empire", since 1804 - Austrian Empire, since 1867 - Austro-Hungarian Monarchy  

Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria (Königreich Galizien und Lodomerien)

Sniatyn powiat, Galicia
1914-1915 Under Russian occupation General-Government Galitsiia  
1915-1918 Austro-Hungarian Monarchy  

Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria (Königreich Galizien und Lodomerien)

 
1918 - May 1919 West-Ukrainian People's Republic    
May 1919 - September 1939 Republic of Poland Stanislawów wojewódstwo Sniatyn powiat
September 1939 - June 1941 USSR: Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Stanislav oblast'  
June 1941 - July 1944 Under German occupation: General Government (Das Generalgouvernement für die besetzten polnischen Gebiete Distrikt Galizien Stanislau Kreishauptmannschaft
1944-91 USSR: Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Stanislavov (Stanislaviv) oblast'; since 1962 renamed Ivano-Frankovsk (Ivano-Frankivs'k) oblast'  
Since 1991 Republic of Ukraine Ivano-Frankivs'k oblast' Снятинський р-н
Population Data: 
Year Total Jews Percentage of Jews
1765  ?  986 -
1870s      
1880  3,523  1,730  49.10%
1890  4,054  2,009  49.55%
1900  4,232  2,092  49.43%
1910  4,758  2,171  45.62%
1921  3,583   1,454  40.58%
1931  ?  1,700  
2001  4,129    

Zablotiv is situated on the northern bank of the Prut river, about 20 kilometers east of Kolomyia, on the route between Ivano-Frankivsk (Stanislawow) and Chernivtsi. This city is first mentioned in a document that testifies to the building of a church at the site by the owner of the city, in 1630. Following the construction of a factory for tobacco, most of the agricultural lands around the city were shifted to tobacco production. This factory led to financial flourishing for the area’s farmers, but no Jews were involved in this branch. At the end of the 19th century the railway between Lvov and Chernivtsi passed through the town, and at the beginning of the 20th century, in 1905 and in 1911, two fires broke out in the city, destroying many homes and injuring several people.