Shpykiv, Ukraine

Ukraine

Shpykiv, Ukraine connects to 2021 places across 5 topics through 8 Bunkabop connections, spanning art, government, history, architecture, and religion. The town passed through several noble Polish families before Leonard Marcin Świejkowski built a Baroque palace there. From 1793 to 1917 it was part of the Podolian Governorate of the Russian Empire. Its strongest co-connection is with Rîbnița, Transnistria. Lee Krasner, whose parents were Russian-Jewish immigrants from Shpykiv, ties the town's Jewish community roots to its connections in art and history.