From the mid-14th century until the
Partitions of Poland, Vynnyky (called Winniki in Polish) belonged to the
Ruthenian Voivodeship of the
Kingdom of Poland. From 1772 to 1918, it was part of Austrian
Galicia, and in the interbellum period, the town returned to Poland, as part of the
Lwow Voivodeship. In 1925 the city had 6,000 residents, out of which 3,300 were Polish, 2,150 Ruthenian (Ukrainian), 350 Jewish, and 200 German. The first sculptural monument to Ukrainian national poet
Taras Shevchenko was opened in Vynnyky on 28 September 1913, financed by the local
Prosvita society. The unveiling ceremony was attended by prominent members of
Galicia's Ukrainian community, including committee leader
Volodymyr Levytsky,
Austrian parliament member
Yevhen Olesnytsky and poet
Bohdan Lepky. The monument was destroyed in 1919 during the
Polish-Ukrainian War. During the 1950s Vynnyky served as a
district centre of Lviv Oblast. and until 18 July 2020, Vynnyky belonged to
Lviv Municipality. The municipality was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Lviv Oblast to seven. The area of Lviv Municipality was merged into the newly established Lviv Raion. ==Economy==