Horokhiv (, , yi, ארכעוו ''Arkhev'', ) is a town in

Volyn Oblast Volyn Oblast ( uk, Воли́нська о́бласть, translit=Volýnsʹka óblastʹ; also referred to as Volyn or Lodomeria) is an oblast (province) in northwestern Ukraine. Its administrative centre is Lutsk. Kovel is the westernmost town an ...

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. It serves as the

administrative center An administrative center is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune A commune is an alternative term for an intentional community. Commune or comună or ...

Horokhiv Raion Horokhiv Raion ( uk, Горохівський район) was a raion in Volyn Oblast in western Ukraine. Its administrative center was the town of Horokhiv. The raion was abolished and its territory was merged into Lutsk Raion on 18 July 2020 as ...

. Population:

History

The first written mention of it was in 1240 in the

Hypatian Codex The Hypatian Codex (also known as Hypatian Letopis or Ipatiev Letopis; be, Іпацьеўскі летапіс; russian: Ипатьевская летопись; uk, Іпатіївський літопис) is a ''svod'' (compendium) of three ''l ...

. From 1795 until the

Russian Revolution The Russian Revolution was a period of Political revolution (Trotskyism), political and social revolution that took place in the former Russian Empire which began during the First World War. This period saw Russia abolish its monarchy and ad ...

of 1917, it was part of

Volhynian Governorate Volhynian Governorate or Volyn Governorate (russian: Волы́нская губе́рния, translit=Volynskaja gubernija, uk, Волинська губернія, translit=Volynska huberniia) was an administrative-territorial unit initially ...

of the

Russian Empire The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended the Great Northern War. ...

; from 1921 to 1939 it was part of Wołyń Voivodeship of

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous ...

. A

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a pre ...

was built here in 1924-1925. Since September 1939 it was a part of the

USSR The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nationa ...

. Also, in 1939 it became a town.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 A local newspaper is published here since 1939.№ 2632. Строитель коммунизма // Летопись периодических и продолжающихся изданий СССР 1986 - 1990. Часть 2. Газеты. М., «Книжная палата», 1994. стр.345 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 The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; a ...

Gallery

File:Gorkhiv_Ansamble Voznesens'koyi Tserkvy 02 (YDS_7892).jpg, Ascension Church (1844) File:Gorkhiv_Dzvinnytsya Voznesens'koyi Tserkvy 03 (YDS_7894).jpg, Ascension Church bell tower (1844) File:Gorkhiv_Voznesens'ka Tserkva 03 Details (YDS_7886).jpg, Ascension Church entrance fresco File:Gorokhiv_Voznesens'ka Kaplytsya (YDS_7867).jpg, Ascension chapel (1871) File:Gorokhiv_Komplex Holm Slavy 01 (YDS_7911).jpg, World War II Memorial File:Gorokhiv_Komplex Holm Slavy 05 (YDS_7910).jpg, Mass graves of World War II warriors

References

External links

* Cities in Volyn Oblast Volhynian Governorate Wołyń Voivodeship (1921–1939) Cities of district significance in Ukraine Jewish Ukrainian history Holocaust locations in Ukraine {{Volyn-geo-stub