Uzhok Pass
Ужоцький перевал
Location of Uzhok Pass in Ukraine
Elevation	889 m (2,917 ft)
Traversed by	Rail in tunnel (and road)
Location	Ukraine, on the border of Stryi Raion and Velykyi Bereznyi Raion
Range	Carpathians
Coordinates	49°00′10″N 22°53′15″E / 49.00278°N 22.88750°E / 49.00278; 22.88750

Uzhok Pass ( Ukrainian: Ужоцький перевал, Hungarian: Uzsoki-hágó) is a mountain pass in the north-eastern Carpathian Mountains in Ukraine through the Vodorazdel'nyy backbone. It located on a ridge at 889 metres (2,917 ft) high.

It is located on the border of Stryi Raion ( Lviv Oblast) and Velykyi Bereznyi Raion ( Zakarpattia Oblast), on the watershed of San River and Uzh River. The pass is also close to the Poland-Ukraine border.

In World War I, the pass was the scene of fierce fighting between the advancing Russian Army and the defending Austro-Hungarian forces in the winter of 1914–1915.

Gallery

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  Hungarian soldiers in a Fiat Balilla 508 at Uzhok pass in 1939
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  Hungarian-Soviet border at Uzhok pass, 1940
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  Highway H13
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  Monument to Austrian-Hungarian and Russian soldiers fallen during World War I
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  View of Uzhok pass from the Polish side
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  Railroad viaduct
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  Abandoned tunnel

References

• Географическая энциклопедия Украины, УСЭ, 1989—1993 гг. ( in Russian . Ukrainian Geografical Encyclopedia, the part of Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia, 1989–1993 years)
• Географічна енциклопедія України: в 3-х томах / Редколегія: О. М. Маринич (відпов. ред.) та ін. — К.: «Українська радянська енциклопедія» імені М. П. Бажана, 1989.(in Ukrainian. Geografical Encyclopedia, the part of Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia, 1989–1993 years)

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