Rudky

Rudky is a city in Sambir Raion, Lviv Oblast, in western Ukraine, known in Polish as Rudki. It lies on the Vyshnia river, a right tributary of the San, on the main European watershed, about 48 kilometres from the regional centre Lviv and 26 kilometres from the district centre Sambir, along the highway that links Lviv, Sambir and Uzhhorod. The town was founded in the late 14th century in the Kingdom of Poland after Red Ruthenia was annexed by Poland, passed to the Habsburg Empire as part of Austrian Galicia in 1772, and belonged to the Fredro family from 1742 until 1939. The Polish poet and playwright Aleksander Fredro is buried in the Roman Catholic Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, and a museum dedicated to him opened in its bell tower in 2016. Several faiths and cultures have lived side by side in the town, although almost the whole Jewish community was murdered there during the Second World War. Rudky hosts the administration of the Rudky urban hromada and is the home of the Vyshnia College of the Lviv National Agricultural University. The population was 4,942 at the 2001 census and 5,230 in a 2022 estimate.