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Пиків 49°34’ N 28°16' E
Village in Kalynivka Raion, Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine Location: Kalynivka Raion, Vinnytsia County, Ukraine Inception: 1590 Area: 27.16 km² Elevation above sea level: 252 m
According to JewishGen, the Jewish population of Pikov in 1900 was 1,479 (1897 census); hopefully having a centralized discussion can assist all of the researchers with descendants from this town and possibly the surrounding area.
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Translated from [https://pykiv.org.ua/]
Pikiv is a large, ancient, unique village… The houses stand by the great water of the Snyvoda River, as if in a half-bowl. People have been flocking here for a long time. And to this day it is difficult to solve the riddle - why? Probably because here the paths of the verstovia intersected, there were through treatises. It was through the Peaks that the ambassador of the German emperor, Erich Lyasota , once passed on his way to the Zaporozhian Cossacks, and he left in his diary a mention of the Pikov as a well-fortified town belonging to Prince Sapeza.. And how the merchant thundered here! In Pikov there were such bazaars as birds. People walked, rode. Look from the side - the float floats. So the local people, watching how so many people came to them from time immemorial - little by little boasted, they were proud. They went to the language market for the holiday, dressed up, polished, in updates. The main thing for them is to trade successfully and show themselves.
In the spring Snivoda overflows with such ponds-lakes, as if the real sea…
Our village is shrouded in legends lost in the darkness of centuries. Our ancestors lived, created and loved here, and now we, their great-grandchildren, want to learn a lot in history. After all, it is known that the people who have deep roots, who remember the significant milestones of their past -invincible.
Villages are like people. Everyone has their own face, their own uniqueness, their own destiny.
Some, like rocks in the middle of a stormy ocean, disappear in the waves of history. Others, like the mythical bird Phoenix, appear, despite the evil twists of fate, out of nowhere, renewed, with wise wrinkles on his forehead. An example of this is the unique village of Pykiv, which has absorbed many pages of the fascinating and at the same time tragic history of our state. The fate of such famous figures as Kryshtof Kosynsky , Severyn Nalyvayko , Bohdan Khmelnytsky , Ustym Karmelyuk , Mykhailo Kotsyubynsky is connected with the history of our village .
The world-famous writer and historian Jan Potocki was born in Pikov, whose works are still a bibliographic rarity. I recently learned on the Internet that the book The Ancient History of the Podolsk Province in 1805 was sold in a London antique shop for £ 3,500, which is almost 5,000 US dollars. And the historical adventure novel "The Manuscript Found in Zaragoza" has been translated into more than thirty languages.
A unique cathedral was built in Pikov, which surprises contemporaries with its architectural perfection.
At one time Pikov was a parish, the district center…
Anatoly Ivanovich Dzhmil, a beekeeper famous all over the former Soviet Union, also worked in the village . He presented his achievements at the Exhibition of Economic Achievements in Moscow and won a gold medal there. And when the Americans invited him to move to the States, promising the "golden mountains", he flatly refused. That's on such nuggets and keeps Peak land.
Our fellow villagers were severely tested by the Holodomor, repression, fascist occupation and the Afghan war. But they did not break, they persevered, hardened like a cry, and won…
And again there is laughter and twittering of children in good and warm homes. Poetry, humoresques, songs are written, art canvases are created, new temples are built… Once again, the people of Pykiv are surprised by their hospitality and generosity.
The ancient sages said, "He who does not know his past is not worthy of the future," and they were a hundred times right, because knowing the history of his small homeland is the first but important step toward realizing his place in this tumultuous life.
Source: History of the village of Pykova [https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&pto=aue...]
Other links:
[https://www.yadvashem.org/untoldstories/database/index.asp?cid=504]
Just noticed Alex Krakovsky had scanned three documents for Pikov back in July of 2022. Links are long because of the cyrillic conversion:
Metric book of the Jews of Pykiv. 1883–1894
[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/81/%D0%94%D0%90%D0...]
Metric book of the Jews of Pykiv. 1850. Birth
[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%D0%94%D0%90%D0%A5%D0%BC%D0...]
Metric book of the Jews of Pykiv. 1851. Birth
[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%D0%94%D0%90%D0%A5%D0%BC%D0...]
Another Pykiv post from Alex - 1811 Pykiv (Pikov) town of Vinnytsia povit revision list
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%D0%94%D0%90%D0%A5%D0%BC%D0...