Ladomyrova

The village of Ladomyrova lies in the northeast part of Slovakia, five kilometers from Svidnyk on the transit route from the south to the north. Ladomyrova is one of the largest Rusyn villages in the Svidnyk region. It has over 800 inhabitants at the present time.

For centuries it was part of the Makovicza estate. The 1st written record of the village is from the year 1364. In the 15th century there was established a toll-house on a commercial road from Austria-Hungary to Poland.

The village's development reached its peak in the 19th century. At that time there were over 1,200 inhabitants. Ladomyrova was well known for its great marketplaces. In that period a large Jewish community was established here in which many merchants not only from the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, but also Jewish tradesmen from the territory of Poland, were doing business.

Now Ladomyrova is dominated by two churches. The wooden Greek Catholic church dates from the year 1742. The Orthodox church was founded in 1924, built in Byzantine, old Rus' monastic style. There was established a printing plant where from 1927 to 1944 church and secular books were printed for many eastern European and Balkan nations.

General Kutuzov passed through the village after a great victory at Slavkov. There is a military cemetery with a chapel from World War I where over 200 Romanian, German, and Russian soldiers were buried.

The tourists' attention will be attracted to the presently neglected Jewish cementery on the small hill called Kytkanja, where Jewish citizens from the entire sub-Dukla region in the past had been buried.

As well as being famous for the 1st Rusyn newspaper written in Latin letters after 1989 with the headline The Bell of Ladomyrova.

The same year there was the 1st Folklore Festival of Rusyns and Lemkos from Under the Dukla.


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