'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.