• Source: Kuty

Kuty (Ukrainian: Кути; Polish: Kuty; Yiddish: קיטעוו, romanized: Kitev, German: Kutten; Romanian: Cuturi), also known historically as Kitów, is a rural settlement in Kosiv Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, western Ukraine. It is situated on the Cheremosh River. It is one of the historical centres of the ancient region of Pokuttya, the name of which may derive from the township. The current population estimate is 4,001 (2022 estimate). Kuty hosts the administration of Kuty settlement hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine, which consists of Kuty township and 6 villages.
Kuty is often associated with Kitów, Poland, as both settlements have historic familial connections, both communities suffered the destruction of their Jews during the Holocaust, both are the originators of the Kitowski surname, and the two towns share a placename in Polish.




History



Kuty, which means 'angles' or 'corners' in Ukrainian, was first mentioned in records of 1469 as a village in the estate of Jan Odrowąż, then Polish archbishop of Lwów (now Lviv) and personal adviser to several Polish kings. Over time the settlement grew and in 1715 at the request of Jan Potocki, the voivod of Kiev, King Augustus II the Strong granted it a town charter. Two churches were founded for local Uniates and Armenian Catholics. With expansion and the proximity of Bukovina, the town became the seat of a starost in the region of Halych and an administrative centre within the Ruthenian Voivodship in the Lesser Poland Province of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. The town was the fiefdom of the Potocki family until the partitions of Poland. Kuty had a mixed population of Poles, Ruthenians, Jews and Armenians.
In 1772 it came under Austrian administration and on May 1, 1782, Kuty lost its town privileges. As a result, its economic growth halted and Kuty remained a provincial backwater inhabited mostly by Jewish and Armenian merchants. Around 1850 the town was linked to the rest of Galicia by the Kołomyja-Czerniowce railway. However, as both Galicia and Bukovina were under Austrian rule, it could not capitalize on its status as a border town. From the 19th-century onwards, Kuty acquired fame as a holiday resort owing to its picturesque location, on a river surrounded by hills and blessed with a balmy climate. It was known as a fruit-growing area and associated festivals. It was home to the largest Armenian community in Poland, many of whom had settled there from Moldavia. The local Armenian school operated until the 1860s as the only one that was not dissolved by the Austrian authorities shortly after the Partitions of Poland.

After the collapse of the Central Powers in 1918 the town was briefly under the control of the West Ukrainian People's Republic. After seizure by Romania Kuty returned to newly independent Polish administration. It became the most important border crossings between Poland and Romania. In 1930 the Polish Army built a new wooden bridge across the Cheremosh river.
It was in Kuty that the Polish president, Ignacy Mościcki, spent his last days in Poland before crossing the border into exile during the 1939 Polish Defensive War against the Germans and the Soviets attacking on two fronts at the start of World War II. The town was defended by the Polish Army until September 20, 1939. Among the last soldiers to be killed by the Red Army in heavy fighting for the bridge was the notable Polish writer, Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz. Except for the term of German occupation between 1941 and 1944, Kuty was annexed by the USSR in 1939 and was administered by Soviet Ukraine. Some Poles from Kuty were murdered by the Soviet NKVD in Kuty and in the Katyn massacre. In the spring of 1942, during the German occupation, the entire Jewish population of Kuty was killed by the Germans and Ukrainian Auxiliary Police, with some 950 to 1,038 Jews massacred on 10 April 1942 alone. Many died in the town while the rest were rounded up and deported to the ghetto in Kolomyia. Only a handful survived. In March-April 1944, Ukrainian nationalists killed about 200 Poles and Armenians, including women and children. Following the annexation of Kuty from Poland by the Soviet Union at the end of World War II, surviving Poles and Armenians mostly left for Poland. The tradition of baking kołacz of Armenians of Kuty is still cultivated in Poland, and it is designated a traditional food by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Poland.
Since 1991 Kuty has been part of independent Ukraine.
Until 26 January 2024, Kuty was designated urban-type settlement. On this day, a new law entered into force which abolished this status, and Kuty became a rural settlement.




Demography


In 1849 the town had roughly 3,700 inhabitants, in 1880, 6,300 and in the late 1920s – 8,000. Of these 3,300 were Jews, 1,900 Hutsuls, 1,300 Poles and over 500 Armenians.
In 2001, the population was 4,272, and in 2016 ca. 4,085 (2016 est.).




Notable residents


Edmund Charaszkiewicz (1895–1975), Polish intelligence officer
Eliasz Kuziemski (1922–2000), Polish actor
Vira Vovk (1926–2022), Ukrainian writer
Abraham Gershon of Kitov (1701–1761), rabbi
Haim Drukman (1932–2022), rabbi and educator, Israeli politician
Levko Dutkovskiy (born 1943), musician and composer, founder and leader of the vocal-instrumental ensemble "Smerichka" which included legendary artists Volodymyr Ivasyuk, Nazariy Yaremchuk and Vasyl Zinkevych. People's Artist of Ukraine, director, teacher, one of the founders of Ukrainian pop music.




References






Further reading


PolishRoots Geography&Maps (the fifth entry)
A historical outline of the Jewish Community of Kuty
Kuty Jewish Cemetery fully documented at Jewish Galicia and Bukovina ORG
Weiner, Miriam; Ukrainian State Archives (in cooperation with); Moldovan State Archives (in cooperation with) (1999). "Chapter 11: Town Clips: Kuty." Jewish Roots in Ukraine and Moldova: Pages from the Past and Archival Inventories . Secaucus, NJ: Miriam Weiner Routes to Roots Foundation. p. 416. ISBY 978-0-96-565081-6. OCLC 607423469.




External links


Media related to Kuty, Kosiv Raion at Wikimedia Commons
Kuty (p. 416) at Miriam Weiner's Routes to Roots Foundation.
• Source: KUTY

KUTY (1470 AM, "Hermosa 1470") is a commercial radio station that is licensed to Palmdale, California, United States and serves the Antelope Valley area. The station is owned by High Desert Broadcasting LLC and broadcasts a regional Mexican format.




History


KUTY signed on in 1957 as a top 40 station with the branding "Radio 147" — the only top 40 station audible in the Antelope Valley. In the 1970s, KUTY flipped to a country music format known as "Cutie Country".
With the advent of competing country outlet KTPI on the FM dial in the mid-1980s, the station began to lose market share. However, station management saw a new opportunity with the area's growing Latino population. On April 7, 1993, KUTY became the Antelope Valley's first Spanish-language station when it flipped to regional Mexican music with the branding "Fiesta Latina".
High Desert Broadcasting purchased KUTY in the 1990s. In 1997, the station flipped to Spanish talk as part of the Radio Unica network, later changing to the Radio Lazer network. In 2004, Radio Lazer was moved to High Desert Broadcasting's newly acquired station KCEL; KUTY switched to an English talk format as "NewsTalk 1470" under guidance by Ray Cuneff.
In September 2007, KUTY and KWJL swapped formats. Local programming on NewsTalk 1470 was discontinued with the move to 1380 AM. Meanwhile, the regional Mexican format on Joyas 1380 relocated to KUTY as "La Mera Mera 1470".
During the 2010s, KUTY adjusted its format to a Mexican adult contemporary emphasis; the station was rebranded "Hermosa 1470".




Notable personalities


Several prominent disc jockeys began their careers at KUTY, particularly during the station's top 40 era. These personalities include:

Pat Garrett
Bob Kingsley
Don Imus
Rog Martin
Gary Marshall
Albert "Stone-Cold Al" Nelson
Billy Pearl
Bob Shannon




References






External links


FCC History Cards for KUTY
Official website

Facility details for Facility ID 22011 (KUTY) in the FCC Licensing and Management System
KUTY in Nielsen Audio's AM station database
Facility details for Facility ID 143699 (K245CL) in the FCC Licensing and Management System
K245CL at FCCdata.org
Facility details for Facility ID 143757 (K259BD) in the FCC Licensing and Management System
K259BD at FCCdata.org

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