Horokhiv

Horokhiv is located 52 km from the regional center of Lutsk and 440 km from Kyiv. It lies in the Volhynian Upland, at a watershed between the Styr (tributary of the Pripyat) and Buh rivers. The surrounding area is known for its rich agricultural lands and mixed forests. The area of the town is 488 hectares. 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. Horokhiv is the center of the Horokhiv urban territorial community. == History ==

Horokhiv was first mentioned under 1240 in the Hypatian Codex. A local newspaper is published here since 1939. The Germans occupied the town from summer 1941 to July 1944. Its Jewish population, comprising over half the town's inhabitants, was murdered en masse during The Holocaust. Under the Soviet rule Horokhiv was known as a centre of agricultural machinery production. == Demographics ==

As of the 2001 Ukrainian census, Horokhiv had a population of 8,847 inhabitants. The ethnic and linguitic composition of the local population according to the census was as follows: == Gallery ==

File:Gorkhiv_Ansamble Voznesens'koyi Tserkvy 02 (YDS_7892).jpg|Ascension Church (1844) File:Gorkhiv_Dzvinnytsya Voznesens'koyi Tserkvy 03 (YDS_7894).jpg|Ascension Church bell tower (1844) File:Gorokhiv_Voznesens'ka Kaplytsya (YDS_7867).jpg|Ascension chapel (1871) File:Gorokhiv_Komplex Holm Slavy 01 (YDS_7911).jpg|World War II Memorial File:Gorokhiv_Komplex Holm Slavy 05 (YDS_7910).jpg|Mass graves of World War II soldiers ==References==