Bibrka

Coat of arms

Old coat of arms

Location of Bibrka within Ukraine

Bibrka (Ukrainian: Бібрка; Polish: Bóbrka) is a town in western Ukraine, located in the Lviv Oblast (province) about 29 km southeast of Lviv on PI29.

The town has been ruled at various points by the Kingdom of Poland, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Austrian empire, the Austro-Hungarian empire, the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, the Kingdom of Hungary, the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and is now part of the Lviv Oblast in Ukraine; as a result Bibrka has several official and native names, including: Bóbrka (Polish/Russian), Prachnik (German), and Boiberke/Boyberke (Yiddish). The city has a population of 3,980.

Bibrka was the site of a Soviet prison and detention centre that detained Poles and others in the mid-20th century.

External links

• (Polish) Bóbrka (Bibrka) in the Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland (1880)
• JewishGen ShtetLinks, Bóbrka by Bev Shulster. Retrieved 25 May 2006
• My Bibrka (Ukrainian), (Russian)