<p><br />

A view of<br />

the Trukhaniv island and the church of St. Elizabeth from the side of<br />

the Dnieper. The first settlements on the Trukhaniv island were<br />

founded as early as the times of Kyivan Rus. Departments of the<br />

Dnieper steamship company were created there in the second half of<br />

the nineteenth century. There were a school, workshops, a yacht club,<br />

the “Ermitazh” park on the island. It was connected by a<br />

telephone line with the estate of the “shipping king”, David<br />

Margolin.</p><p>The church of St. Elizabeth was built in 1909-1910 and<br />

named in honour of both general governor Trepov’s wife and the<br />

saint who was considered the patroness of the construction. In 1908<br />

the population of the village of Trukhaniv numbered 6 thousand people<br />

who were mainly workers of the shipyard and their families. In the<br />

Empire time the Trukhaniv island was not a part of the city, so its<br />

usual ways were a bit different from those of the city itself. In<br />

view of the fact that the village was not included in the city<br />

limits, a large number of Jews lived there (there was no need for<br />

them to obtain a special permission for residence).</p><p>Olga Martyniuk</p>