The name is Szumsk in Polish (Szumska is the genetive case). A
postwar Soviet map:
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu:8085/x-ussr/100k/M-35-065.jpg (bearing
the Russian name umskoe, on the Vilija river. It's about the biggest
settlement on this map.) Nowadays the name is ums'k.
Peter S.
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BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, Petter Brabec
<pete2784west@y...> wrote:
> Today, this area lies entirely in Ukraine about 160 km east of
L´viv (or Lwów or Lemberg). Szumska is situated 35 km east from the
town of Kremenec (or Krzemieniec or Kremenez). This area is about 300
km away from the tripoint PLSKUA.
> For those slightly more history-oriented when it comes to
boundaries. Szumska in 1908 has been ruled by Russian empire and the
tsar, in 1918 occupied by the Austrian-German armies, in 1919 under
the Polish government, by september 1939 ocuppied by Stalin's Soviet
Union, by 1941 occupied by the German army, by 1944 occupied again by
the Soviet army, and by the end of the Second World War firmly a part
of the Ukrainian Soviet republic, and now since 1993 or something as
a part of the independent Ukraine.
>
> Petter
>
> Jesper Nielsen <jesniel@i...> wrote:
> Close to PLSKUA, right?
>
> http://www.idn.org.pl/medykon/wolyn/krzemieniecki/83.htm
>
> http://www.idn.org.pl/medykon/wolyn/krzemieniecki/84.htm
>
> Jesper
>
>
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