Stanislawow Voivodeship

Stanisławów Voivodeship Województwo stanisławowskie
Voivodeship of Poland
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Location of Stanisławów Voivodeship (red) within the Second Republic of Poland (1938).
Capital		Stanisławów
Government		Voivodeship
Voivode
•	1921–1925 (first)	Edmund Jurystowski
•	Jan–Sep 1939 (last)	Stanisław Jarecki
History
•	Established	23 December 1920
•	Soviet invasion	17 September 1939
Area
•	1921	18,368 km2(7,092 sq mi)
•	1939	16,894 km2(6,523 sq mi)
Population
•	1921	1,348,580
	Density	73.4 /km2  (190.2 /sq mi)
•	1931	1,480,300
Political subdivisions		15 powiats

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Stanisławów Voivodeship (Polish: Województwo stanisławowskie) was an administrative district of the interwar Poland (1920–1939). It was established in December 1920 with an administrative center in Stanisławów. The voivodeship had an area of 16,900 km² and comprised twelve counties (powiaty). Following World War II, at the insistence of Joseph Stalin during Tehran Conference of 1943, Poland's borders were redrawn, Polish population forcibly resettled and Stanisławów Voivodeship was incorporated into the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. Since 1991, most of the area belongs to the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast in sovereign Ukraine.

Following German aggression on Poland, and in accordance with the secret protocol of Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Soviet forces invaded eastern Poland on September 17, 1939. As bulk of the Polish Army was concentrated in the west, fighting Germans, the Soviets met with little resistance and their troops quickly moved westwards. Polish authorities originally intended to organize anti-German resistance in Stanisławów Voivodeship (see: Romanian Bridgehead), with Polish Army units planned to stand ground until the spring of 1940 when French attack on Germany was expected. However, the Soviet invasion of Poland rendered these plans ineffectual. It is estimated that prior to Soviet counter-offensive in the later part of World War II, over 18,000 Polish civilians in Stanisławów Voivodeship fell victims to OUN-UPA massacres.

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