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Storozhynets Territorial Community
Chernivtsi
Population:
The Storozhynets community is located in the Chernivtsi region in the western part of Ukraine. The total area of the community is 532.96 sq km. The community includes the town of Storozhynets and 17 rural settlements.
As of January 1, 2024 the population of the community was 42,381 people.
Men: 20,693
Women: 21,688
Internally displaced persons: 1,126.
The community is multinational. 35,229 Ukrainians (83.1%), 6,092 Romanians (14.4%), 264 Poles (0.6%) and 796 representatives of other ethnicities (1.9%) live here.
History
The administrative center is the town of Storozhynets. The first mentions of the town date back to 1448.
Storozhynets is the second most populous town in the Chernivtsi region (14,136 people), and today the territorial community is one of the largest in the region, both in terms of area and population. It is located at the intersection of transport routes between the regional center and the Ukrainian-Romanian state border (crossing point “Krasnoilsk”).
Storozhynets is spread out on the left bank of the Siret mountain river at the foot of the Bukovyna Carpathians and can confidently claim the title of the greenest town of Bukovyna. The town has Bukovyna’s most picturesque arboretum, Austrian buildings of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, religious buildings of various denominations and administrative buildings.
The Arboretum is a natural monument of national significance. The Park was founded in 1912 by the Orensteins, the most influential Jewish family at the time, on the site of a natural forest where valuable and rare tree species grew. The palace of the 19th century has been preserved here. It is the estate of the founders of the park, the Orenstein family. In 1945, an educational institution – Storozhynets Forestry College – was established on the basis of the park.
The community has 17 villages, all of which without exception are spread among hills, streams and forests and are incredibly picturesque.
The proximity of the border with Romania, a country of the European Union, promotes the development of partnership relations between municipalities and personal friendships on an interpersonal level.
Economy and Welfare
2,293 business entities, including 496 legal entities and 1,797 individual entrepreneurs, operate in the Storozhynets urban territorial community.
Most people in the community are engaged in trade and service provision.
Agriculture is the main activity in rural settlements. 6 enterprises, 29 farming enterprises, 1 agricultural service cooperative and 15,056 personal peasant farms are engaged in the production of agricultural products in the community. The branch of wood processing is also quite developed here.
The Skif Company is engaged in the production of wooden furniture, chairs. They export to Ukraine and European countries.
The network of educational institutions of the Storozhynets Town Council consists of 34 educational institutions, of which 19 are of general secondary education, 14 are of preschool education and 1 is of out-of-school education.
6,074 children study in institutions of general secondary education. Also, there are 1,290 pupils in preschool education institutions.
There are 15 sections (30 groups) that are attended by 425 pupils on the basis of the Storozhynets Center for Children’s and Youth Creativity. The educational process is provided by 13 teaching staff.
On the territory of the community, the field of health care is developed at a fairly high level.
The Storozhynets Multidisciplinary Intensive Care Hospital, a communal enterprise, serves the entire population of the Storozhynets urban territorial community. In addition, services are provided to residents of other communities. Of the total population covered by medical services, 10% are internally displaced persons, 5% are war invalids, participants in hostilities, participants in the liquidation of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident, and 25% are children.
Considerable attention in the provision of medical assistance to the population is paid to combatants, military personnel, persons with disabilities and the elderly.
300 beds have been deployed in the institution to provide specialized medical care. Urgent assistance to children is provided 24 hours a day. Medical services are rendered by 128 doctors and 200 nurses.
In 2023, the Storozhynets Multidisciplinary Intensive Care Hospital concluded an agreement with the National Health Service for 20 packages of services under the medical guarantee program.
Community and War
From the first days of the war, residents of the Storozhynets community joined the defense of Ukraine. Hundreds of men and women are involved in the defense of Ukraine against Russian aggression. During the ten years of the war, the community lost 89 defenders, including 76 during the full-scale invasion. There are many wounded, there are also missing persons.
Residents of the community actively help the front line. Over the past two years, quadcopters, communication equipment, cars, an excavator, night vision devices, anti-drone guns, drone jammers, spare parts for cars, and construction materials were purchased for the town budget funds amounting to over UAH 27 million.
Another almost UAH 400,000 from the community budget were allocated to the needs of internally displaced persons. On this matter, the Storozhynets community actively cooperates with volunteer organizations at the regional, all-Ukrainian, and international levels.
People of the Community
Ihor Mateichuk is the Mayor of Storozhynets. He was elected to the post in 2020.
The Storozhynets community has many notable figures in sports, science, and culture.
Among them is a singer with a world name – the soloist of the Berlin Opera Joseph Schmidt (1904-1942) from the village of Davydivka. And the Ukrainian writer, composer, musical and cultural figure, Orthodox priest and teacher Sydir Vorobkevych (1836-1903) lived in the village of Davydeny and taught literacy to village children.
In our time, the Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, Primate of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine Epiphanius spent his childhood and school years in the village of Stara Zhadova.
Development Strategy
The strategy for the development of the Storozhynets urban territorial community until 2027 was approved by the 24th extraordinary session of the Storozhynets Town Council of the Chernivtsi district, Chernivtsi region.
Vision of community development:
The Storozhynets community is an ecologically clean and self-sufficient community in which natural resources are effectively used and processed and its geographical and historical potential is rationally taken advantage of. It is friendly and comfortable for its residents.
Strategic goal 1. Creation of conditions for rational and ecological use of natural resources of the community.
- Ecological and rational forest use and development of entrepreneurship.
- Development of agriculture in an environmentally friendly direction.
- Attracting investments in the development of priority industries and logistics.
Strategic goal 2. Creation of favorable conditions for the development of business and industry.
- Development of small and medium-sized businesses.
- Development of business cooperation, clusters.
- Development of the tourist potential of the community.
Strategic goal 3. Improvement of living comfort, safety and environment in the community.
- Development of community transport infrastructure.
- Modernization of utilities infrastructure of the community.
- Increasing the level of security.
- Improving the quality of municipal services in the community.
- Increasing accessibility to a diverse cultural environment.
- Development of a network of sports and social facilities in the community.
List of Sources
- link to the community’s official website –stor-rada.gov.ua
- links to the community’s pages in social networks –facebook.com
- links to the community’s mass media outlets on the Internet
- facebook.comInternet resource “Storozhynets+”;
- facebook.com Pidhirya public magazine “Native Territory”.
- Internet pages of institutions operating in the community:
- Active parks of the Storozhynets urban territorial community facebook.com
- Storozhynets Lyceum facebook.com
- Center for Professional Development of Teaching Staff facebook.com
- Storozhynets Primary Health Care Center facebook.com
- Storozhynets Multidisciplinary Intensive Care Hospitalfacebook.com
- Storozhynets Center for Children and Youth Creativity facebook.com
- Storozhynets Center of National Cultures facebook.com