Lymanske

Lymanske is an urban-type settlement in Rozdilna Raion of Odessa Oblast in Ukraine. It is located along the east side of the Kuchurhan Reservoir on the border with Transnistria in Moldova. Population: 7,185The villages of Selz and Kandel were established at this location along the Kuchurhan River in 1808 by Roman Catholic German and Alsatian immigrants to the Kutschurgan Valley, then part of the Russian Empire. It received its present name after the remaining German residents were driven from the area by the advancing Soviet army in 1944.