Horokhiv

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]

Horokhiv Горохів Horochów (in Polish)
City
Former Horokhiv District Administration Building
Flag Coat of arms
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Coordinates: 50°29′58″N 24°45′54″E
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Volyn Oblast
Raion	Lutsk Raion
Hromada	Horokhiv urban hromada
Government
• Mayor	Viktor Hodyk
Elevation	213 m (699 ft)
Population  (2022)
• Total	8,925

Geography

Lutsk old town and the Styr

Horokhiv is located in the Volhynian Upland. The area of the city is 488 hectares. The area of the area is located in the area of mixed forests and the river basin Styr (tributary of the Pripyat) 52 km from the regional center of Lutsk and 440 km from Kyiv. The area of the city is 488 hectares. ^[2][3]

The climate is moderately continental with mild winters (in January -4.4 °, -5.1 °) and warm wet summer (in July +18.8 °). Rainfall 550-640 mm per year.^[4][5]

Horokhiv is the center of the Horokhiv urban territorial community.^[6]

History

Stroynowski Palace during World War I

The first written mention of it was in 1240 in the Hypatian Codex. ^[2]

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.^[7]

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.^[7]

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.^[7][8] A local newspaper is published here since 1939.^[9]

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.^[10]

Horokhiv served as the administrative center of Horokhiv Raion prior to its dissolution in 2020. Since then, it is a part of Lutsk Raion.^[11]

Gallery

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