LUYBASHEVKA

LUYBASHEVKA:     US Commission No. UA15190102
Alternate name: Lubashovka (Ukraine). Luybashevka is located in Odesskaya at 47º51 30º15, 107 km from Uman and 170 km from Odessa. The cemetery is located at corner Lenina Street and Turegeneva St. Present town population is 5,001-25,000 with 11-100 Jews.

• Town officials: Lyubashev rayispolkom of Burdyk Vladimir Nikolaevich [Phone (04864) Lyubashev Regional Cultural Department-Banar Viktor Maksimovich. 91344].
  
• Regional: Odessa Oblast Cultural Department-Borodavko Roman Isaakovaich. Odessa Oblast Cultural Department-Podderskaya Tatyana Anatolievna [Phone (0482)283837]. Odessa Oblast fond of culture, Masharova Dina Mikhaylovna.
  
• Jewish Community - Chechelnitskiy Shimon. Jewish Community of Milshteyn Feliks Ilich.
  

     The earliest known Jewish community was beginning 19 [sic]. 1940 Jewish population (census) was 2500. The last known Hasidic burial was near 1910. No other towns or villages used this unlandmarked cemetery. The isolated urban flat land has no sign or marker. Reached by turning directly off a public road, access is open to all. No walls, fence, or gate surround site. No stones are visible. Location of any removed stones is unknown. Municipality owns the property. Adjacent properties are residential. The cemetery boundaries are smaller now than 1939 because of housing development. The cemetery is visited rarely by other. The cemetery was vandalized prior to World War II. There is no maintenance now. Within the limits of the cemetery are no structures. Very serious threat: uncontrolled access, vandalism and existing nearby development. Moderate threat: proposed nearby development. Slight threat: weather erosion and pollution.
     Kogan Leonid of Novograd-Volynskiy, Lenina Street 107, Apt. 42 [Phone (04141) 54259] visited on 1/5/95. Oks Vladimir Moiseevich of Novograd-Volynskiy, Lenina Street 107, apt. 42 [Phone (04141) 54259] completed survey on 01/20/1995. Interviewed was Kondratyuk Ruslan on 1/5/95.