Horochiw

Horochiw
Горохів
	Horochiw
Basic data
Oblast :	Volyn Oblast
Rajon :	Horokhiv Raion
Height :	no information
Area :	1.1 km²
Residents :	6,500 (2004)
Population density :	5,909 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes :	45700-45702
Area code :	+380 279
Geographic location :	50 ° 30 ′  N , 24 ° 46 ′  E Coordinates: 50 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  N , 24 ° 46 ′ 0 ″  E
KOATUU :	720810100
Administrative structure :	1 city
Mayor :	Viktor Semchenko
Address:	вул. Шевченка 17 45700 м. Горохів
Statistical information
Horochiw

Horochiw (Ukrainian Горохів ; Russian Горохов / Gorochow , Polish Horochów ) is a Ukrainian city ​​with a little over 6500 inhabitants.

Street view of the place

location

Horokhiv is located in Volyn Oblast . The city lies on the road N 17 about 50 kilometers south of the district capital of Lutsk and about 90 kilometers north of Lviv .

history

Horochiw was founded around 1450. In 1601 she received the Magdeburg city charter . In 1928 the place was connected to the railway network by the construction of an extension line to today's railway line Lviv – Kiverti , the station is about 8 kilometers southeast of the town center.

City name

Partnerships

•  Krasnystaw (Poland) since 2004

Web links

Commons : Horochiw  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Horochów . In: Filip Sulimierski, Władysław Walewski (eds.): Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich . tape 3 : Haag – Kępy . Sulimierskiego and Walewskiego, Warsaw 1882, p. 132 (Polish, edu.pl ).
• Horochiw as the administrative seat of the German occupying power during the Second World War , under the Russian name Gorochow

Remarks

1. ↑ There are also philatelic documents "Gorochow: Deutsche Hilfspost Ukraine" from 1944, especially as replicas in different versions, from a later period, probably made by Nazi nostalgics