Rava-Ruska

Rava-Ruska is a small city in Lviv Raion, Lviv Oblast, in western Ukraine, and a border town facing Poland. The border checkpoint lies about 8 kilometres to the west along the international road between Warsaw and Lviv, and the city hosts the administration of the Rava-Ruska urban hromada. It was founded in 1455 by the Polish prince Wladyslaw I of Plock, Duke of Belz and Mazovia, who added the suffix Ruska, meaning Ruthenian, to tell it apart from Rawa Mazowiecka. The town grew on the trade route from Lublin to Lviv, passed to Austrian Galicia in 1772, became a railway junction in the early twentieth century and suffered heavily in the Second World War, when many of its Jewish residents were deported to Belzec or shot. About 8,494 people lived there by a 2022 estimate.