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Kovel's historic railway station Kovel's modern railway station. Kovel is the north-western hub of the Ukrainian rail system, with six rail lines radiating outward from the city. The first of these was built in 1873, connecting the city with Brest-Litovsk and Rivne. In 1877 Kovel was linked by the Vistula River Railroad with Lublin and Warsaw.
One visitor to Kovel during late 1914 and 1915 was the famous ethnographer Shloyme Zanvl Rappoport, better known under his pen name S. Anski, who was asked to organize relief for Jews caught in Russian Poland, Russia and Galicia between the warring armies of Russia, Germany and the Austrian empire. Poles, driven by anti-Semitism and their economic competition with the Jews, often would accuse ...
KOVEL , town in Volhynia district, Ukraine; within Poland until the end of the 18 th century, passed to Russia until 1918, and within Poland again until 1939. A Jewish community is known to have existed there from 1536, when Kovel received Magdeburgian rights (city rights). In 1540, representatives of Kovel Jews, together with other Volhynian ...
Map showing Kingdom of Poland and Grand Duchy of Lithuania, 1561-1629, under whose rule Kovel had been since the 14th century. Map showing Kovel during the three partitions of Poland (1772, 1793, 1795) The Battle of Kowel between Polish and Bolshevik forces, 1920 (click on map to magnify it). Layout of the city from the Pinkas Kovel.
After the third division of Poland Kovel became a district town in Russia. The rapid economic development of the city accounted for the second half of the nineteenth century. Reform of 1861 provides the impetus for new growth. Laid the first railroad through the Kyiv-Brest Kovel (1873r.), developing industry, several times growing population.
According to one testimony, on the second day of the first murder operation in Bachów (on June 3, 19.
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Kovel is located in the very centre of Volhynia Province, on both banks of the Turija River, a tributary of the Pripyat flowing from south to north. The first written mention of Kovel is dated to 1310. Perhaps the town owes its name to the word kowal, meaning “blacksmith” – a common trade in this area in the 10th–13th centuries.
