Khoroshiw

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Khoroshiw
Хорошів
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Khoroshiw (Ukraine)
Khoroshiw
Khoroshiw
Basic data
Oblast : Zhytomyr Oblast
Rajon : Khoroshiw district
Height : 208 m
Area : 8.328 km²
Residents : 7,807 (2014)
Population density : 937 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes : 12100
Area code : +380 4145
Geographic location : 50 ° 36 '  N , 28 ° 26'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 35 '50 "  N , 28 ° 26' 20"  E
KOATUU : 1821155100
Administrative structure : 1 urban-type settlement , 2 villages
Address: вул. К. Маркса 13
12 101 смт. Хорошів
Statistical information
Khoroshiw (Zhytomyr Oblast)
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Choroschiw ( Ukrainian Хорошів ; Russian Хорошев Choroschew , polish Horoszki ) is an urban-type in the Ukrainian oblast Schytomyr and the administrative center of the Rajons Choroschiw with about 7800 inhabitants (2014).

Minerals Museum in Khoroshiw

history

The village was founded in 1545 as Aleksandropol (Russian Александрополь ) after the name of a local prince and renamed Horoszki in 1607 due to the new Lithuanian landowners of the place . Until 1793 Horoszki belonged to the Polish aristocratic republic and then came to the Russian Empire , where the name was retained, but because of the kyrylic script Хорошки it is reproduced in German as Choroschki . In 1912 the city in honor of the late 18th century here was staying Field Marshal was Mikhail Kutuzov in Kutuzovo ( Кутузово ) renamed in 1921 the political motivated renamed Volodarsky took place (Ukrainian accordingly Wolodarskyj) after the Soviet revolutionary W. Volodarsky . In 1924 the place received the status of an urban-type settlement, in 1927 the addition Wolynskyj ( Wolodarsk-Wolynskyj / Володарськ-Волинський) was added to distinguish it from other places of the same name . On February 4, 2016 the place name was changed to Khoroshiw .

geography

Khoroshiw is located on the Irscha , a left tributary of the Teteriv 54 km northwest of the Oblast center Zhytomyr and about 150 km west of the capital Kiev . Territorial road T-06-03 runs through the village . The settlement council also includes the villages Selenyj Haj ( Зелений Гай - until 2016 Pjatyritschka / П'ятирічка) and Rudnja-Schljachowa ( Рудня-Шляхова ).

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cities in Ukraine on pop-stat.mashke.org; accessed on August 16, 2014
  2. ↑ Верховна Рада України; Постанова від 04.02.2016 № 984-VIII Про перейменування окремих населених пунктів та районів
  3. ↑ Верховна Рада України; Постанова від 12.05.2016 № 1353-VIII Про перейменування деяких населених пунктів