Velyki Mosty

'Great Bridges', IPA: [weˈlɪki moˈstɪ] ⓘ; Polish: Mosty Wielkie; Hebrew: מוסט רבתי) is a city in Sheptytskyi Raion of Lviv Oblast (region) of western Ukraine.

In the late 15th century, Mosty was ransacked and destroyed in a Crimean Tatars raid, and in July 1497, during the Moldavian expedition of John I Albert, a unit of Teutonic Knights under Johann von Tiefen, called upon by the Polish king, marched through the village.

Following the order of King Sigismund II Augustus, a nobleman Andrzej Rokicki became the first local wójt.

[4] Following the joint German-Soviet invasion of Poland, which started World War II in September 1939, the town was initially occupied by the Soviet Union.

[6][7][8] The town commander, Captain Johann Kroupa in the military-engineer division of the Wehrmacht, protected Jews from death during the first part of the occupation, employing more than 2,000, including 1,200 women, and helping forge work permits for some.

Fire station in 1937
Rata River in Velyki Mosty