Dovzhky, Khmelnytskyi Oblast

Coordinates: 50°30′12″N 26°54′20″E / 50.50333°N 26.90556°E / 50.50333; 26.90556
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Dovzhky, Slavuta Raion
Довжки (Славутський район)
UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code
30022
Area code+380 3842
Websiteсело Довжки, райцентр Славута (Ukrainian)

Dovzhky (Ukrainian: До́вжки, alternative name – Ukrainian: Должок, Довжок) – village (selo) in Shepetivka Raion of Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukraine. It belongs to Hannopil rural hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.[1] Area of the village totals is 4,36 km2 and the population of the village is about 952 people. Local government is administered by Dovzhkivska village council.[2]

Geography

This village is located on the altitude of 228 metres (750 ft) above sea level.

Khmelnytskyi, 30 kilometres (19 mi) from the district center Slavuta and 21 kilometres (13 mi) from the Berezdiv
.

History

The first written sources of the village have been preserved from the years 1594-1595. But in territory of village are found tools copper-stone age ) (3rd millennium BC).[4]
Direction of the economy of the local population – agriculture and meat dairy farming.

Before the Second World War the population of village Dovzhky was about 2,000 people and was a few Jewish families. A terrible fate awaited the Jews of Slavuta district during the fascist occupation of 1941 – 1942. All of them were taken to ghetto and killed by the Nazis.[5]

Until 18 July 2020, Dovzhky belonged to Slavuta Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Khmelnytskyi Oblast to three. The area of Slavuta Raion was abolished and merged into Shepetivka Raion.[6][7]

References

  1. ^ "Аннопольская громада" (in Russian). Портал об'єднаних громад України.
  2. ^ Довжківська сільська рада (in Ukrainian)
  3. ^ Село Довжки (Хмельницька обл.): карта вулиць (in Ukrainian)
  4. ^ Історія міст і сіл Української РСР, Довжки, Славутський район, Хмельницька область (in Ukrainian)
  5. ^ Єврейське населення Славутчини під час Великої Вітчиз няної війни (1941–1945 рр.) P- 345, 349 Archived 2016-03-09 at the Wayback Machine (in Ukrainian)
  6. ^ "Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ". Голос України (in Ukrainian). 2020-07-18. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
  7. ^ "Нові райони: карти + склад" (in Ukrainian). Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України.

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