Horokhiv (Ukrainian: Горохів, IPA: [ɦoˈrɔxiu̯] ⓘ; Polish: Horochów; Yiddish: ארכעוו, romanized: Arkhev) is a small city in Volyn Oblast, in north-western Ukraine. Population: 8,925 (2022 estimate).[1]

History

Stroynowski Palace during World War I

The first written mention of it was in 1240 in the Hypatian Codex.

It was a private town, administratively located in the Volhynian Voivodeship in the Lesser Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland. Polish politician and economist Walerian Stroynowski built a palace in the town.

From the Third Partition of Poland of 1795 until the Russian Revolution of 1917, it was part of Volhynian Governorate of the Russian Empire; from 1921 to 1939 it was part of Wołyń Voivodeship of Poland.

A railway station was built here in 1924-1925.[2]

Following the German-Soviet invasion of Poland, which started World War II in September 1939, it was occupied by the Soviet Union until 1941. In 1939 it became a town.[2][3] A local newspaper is published here since 1939.[4]

The Germans occupied town from summer 1941 to July 1944. Its Jewish population, comprising over half the town’s inhabitants, was murdered en masse during The Holocaust.[citation needed]

Horokhiv served as the administrative center of Horokhiv Raion prior to its dissolution in 2020. Since then, it is a part of Lutsk Raion.

  • Ascension Church (1844)
    Ascension Church (1844)
  • Ascension Church bell tower (1844)
    Ascension Church bell tower (1844)
  • Ascension chapel (1871)
    Ascension chapel (1871)
  • World War II Memorial
    World War II Memorial
  • Mass graves of World War II soldiers
    Mass graves of World War II soldiers

References

  1. ^ Чисельність наявного населення України на 1 січня 2022 [Number of Present Population of Ukraine, as of January 1, 2022] (PDF) (in Ukrainian and English). Kyiv: State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 July 2022.
  2. ^ a b Горохов // Большая Советская Энциклопедия. / редколл., гл. ред. Б. А. Введенский. 2-е изд. том 12. М., Государственное научное издательство «Большая Советская энциклопедия», 1952. стр.229
  3. ^ Горохов // Большой энциклопедический словарь (в 2-х тт.). / редколл., гл. ред. А. М. Прохоров. том 1. М., "Советская энциклопедия", 1991. стр.326
  4. ^ № 2632. Строитель коммунизма // Летопись периодических и продолжающихся изданий СССР 1986 - 1990. Часть 2. Газеты. М., «Книжная палата», 1994. стр.345

Further reading

Allikas: Https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horochow
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