Berdychiv, Ukraine, declassified

Berdychiv, city, northwestern Ukraine. Founded in 1482 as a Lithuanian fortress, Berdychiv was Polish from 1569 until 1793. The 16th-century fortress walls survive, as does the Roman Catholic church in which the French novelist Honoré de Balzac married Eveline Hanska, a wealthy Polish widow, in 1850 after an 18-year courtship. In the 19th century Berdychiv developed into an important centre of trade and light industry; it became for a time the fourth largest city in Ukraine. During this period the city’s population was predominantly Jewish, and the Hasidic movement was prominent. Among Berdychiv’s enterprises have been engineering works, a sugar refinery, a tannery, and clothing factories; it is also a railway junction. [Britannica ](https://www.britannica.com/place/Berdychiv) Metadata: Dataset: declass 3 (2013) Entity ID: D3C1213-300614F003 Acquisition Date: 1977/10/08 Mission: 1213-3 Data was downloaded from [USGS EarthExplorer](https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/) and processed with qgis.