Shepetivka

Shepetivka (Ukrainian: Шепеті́вка; Polish: Szepetówka, Russian: Шепето́вка, Shepetovka) is a town located on the Huska River in the Khmelnytskyi Oblast (province) of Western Ukraine. Shepetivka is a town of oblast subordinance, and the administrative center of Shepetivskyi Raion (district).

Shepetivka

Шепетівка


Shepetivka railway station, Museum of Propaganda, Shepetivka District Council
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Shepetivka
Location of Shepetivka in Ukraine
Shepetivka
Shepetivka (Ukraine)
Coordinates: 50°11′0″N 27°04′0″E
Country Ukraine
Oblast Khmelnytskyi Oblast
RaionShepetivskyi Raion
First mentioned1594
Town rights1619
Area
 • Total40 km2 (20 sq mi)
Population
 (2019)
 • Total41 248[1]
 • Density1,199/km2 (3,110/sq mi)
Postal code
30400 - 30409
Area code(s)+380 3840
Websitewww.shepetivka.com.ua

Shepetivka is an important railway junction with five intersecting transit routes. It is located 100 km away from Khmelnytskyi, the oblast's capital.

History
Historical affiliations

Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth 1594–1793
 Russian Empire 1793–1917
Republic of Poland 1919–1920
Soviet Ukraine 1920–1922
 Soviet Union 1922–1991
   Nazi Germany 1941–1944 (occupation)
 Ukraine 1991–present

A settlement called Shepetovka, belonging to the prince Ivan Zaslavsky, was first mentioned in a written document in 1594. In the 16th century Shepetivka didn't differ from other settlements of Wolhynia. The settlement had a community and a windmill. It was given Magdeburg Rights at the end of the 16th century. This contributed the settlement's expansion and growing population. At the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries the peasantry was intensively enslaved. Population of Shepetivka also suffered from frequent attacks of the Crimean Tatars. Peasants and craftsmen responded to the feudal oppression with the revolt in 1591-1593, led by Krzysztof Kosiński, and the revolt in 1594-1596, led by Severyn Nalyvaiko. When during the Ukrainian war of liberation from Poland in July 1648 peasant-Cossack regiments of Maxym Kryvonis had conquered Polonne, the inhabitants of Shepetivka joined the troops. At the end of the 17th century Shepetivka became property of Lubomirski family, and in 1703, of the Sanguszko family. And at the end of the 18th century it became part of Iziaslav county, Volhynian Governorate. In 1866 Shepetivka became the capital of the county.

The first written mention of Shepetivka was in 1594. In 1795 it became part of Iziaslav County, Volhynian Governorate. The first railway station was built in 1873.

In 1923 it got the status of a town, becoming the capital of Shepetovka district. In 1932 it became the capital of Shepetivka Raion, Vinnytsia Oblast. In 1937 Shepetivka Raion became part of Kamianets-Podilskyi (since 1954 Khmelnytskyi) Oblast. In 1991, Ukraine became an independent state, and Shepetovka became part of the state (and the town name took on the Ukrainian variant of "Shepetivka").

Shepetovka was a town with extensive settlement by Jews, similar to the surrounding region.[2] There were 20,000 Jews counted in a census in the late 1670s, and 52,000 in the 1760s.[3] Several important rabbis were active in the region in the 1700s, including Rabbi Pinchas Shapira, who is buried in Shepetovka.[4] Significant emigration from Shepetovka occurred between 1880 and 1925.

During World War II, the Jewish population of Shepetovka was decimated. Hundreds of people were shot to death over the summer of 1941, and thousands more in the summer of 1942. Some number of Jews, however, survived the war because they had been evacuated to safety in Uzbekistan.[5]

Notable residents
  • Church of Nativity in Shepetivka
  • Shepetivka museum
  • Palace of Justice
  • Great Synagogue in Shepetivka
  • Shepetivka Railway Station
  • A street in Shepetivka
  • Moscow Patriarchate church
  • City Hall
  • Museum of Propaganda
  • Shepetivka park
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References
  1. Чисельність населення (за оцінкою) на 1 грудня 2019 року // Головне управління статистики у Хмельницькій області
  2. https://sites.google.com/view/shepetovka-descendants/home
  3. https://sites.google.com/view/shepetovka-descendants/history
  4. https://sites.google.com/view/shepetovka-descendants/history
  5. https://sites.google.com/view/shepetovka-descendants/history
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