Chudniv ( ua, Чуднів, pl, Cudnów, yi, טשודנאוו, russian: Чу́днов) is a city in

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. Prior to 2020, it was the administrative center of the former Chudniv Raion. Population:

History

A significant battle of the

Russo-Polish War (1654-1667) Armed conflicts between Poland (including the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth) and Russia (including the Soviet Union) include: Originally a Polish civil war that Russia, among others, became involved in. Originally a Hungarian revolution b ...

was fought near the town in 1660, followed by a treaty between the

Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, formally known as the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and, after 1791, as the Commonwealth of Poland, was a bi-confederal state, sometimes called a federation, of Crown of the Kingdom of ...

and the

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, named after the city. In 1866 Polish Romantic-era novelist

Henryk Rzewuski Henryk Rzewuski (3 May 1791 – 28 February 1866) was a Polish nobleman, Romantic-era journalist and novelist. Life Count Henryk Rzewuski was a scion of a Polish magnate family in Ukraine. He was the son of Adam Wawrzyniec Rzewuski, a Russian ...

died in Chudniv. The Jewish population was important in the town. During World War II, the Germans occupied the town and kept the Jews imprisoned in a

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. In 1941, they were murdered in mass executions perpetrated by an

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of Germans and Ukrainian policemen.

Notable people from Chudniv

Alter Chudnover Alter Chudnover ( yi, אלטער טשודנאָװער, 1846–1913), whose real name was Yehiel Goyzman or Hausman ( or ), was a nineteenth century Klezmer violinist from the Russian Empire. He was one of a number of virtuosic klezmers of the ni ...

, AKA Yehiel Goyzman (1846–1912), virtuoso

klezmer Klezmer ( yi, קלעזמער or ) is an instrumental musical tradition of the Ashkenazi Jews of Central and Eastern Europe. The essential elements of the tradition include dance tunes, ritual melodies, and virtuosic improvisations played for l ...

violinist * Menachem Ribalow - newspaper editor * Shloimke (Sam) Beckerman - early 20th century

bandleader in

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Gallery

File:Н Орда Костьол Чуднів.JPG, Chudniv by

Napoleon Orda Napoleon Mateusz Tadeusz Orda ( be, Напалеон Орда; lt, Napoleonas Orda; 11 February 1807 – 26 April 1883) was a Polish-Lithuanian musician, pianist, composer and artist, best known for numerous sketches of historical sites of the ...

File:Чуднівський костел.jpg, The Catholic church today File:Різдво-Богородицька церква Чуднів.jpg, Nativity Church in Chudniv

References

Cities in Zhytomyr Oblast Cities of district significance in Ukraine Kiev Voivodeship Zhitomirsky Uyezd Zhytomyr Raion Holocaust locations in Ukraine {{Zhytomyr-geo-stub