Khyriv is first mentioned in documents from 1374. At that time, it was the private property of the
noble Polish family of
Herburt, and was part of the
Kingdom of Poland. Administratively it was located in the
Przemyśl Land in the
Ruthenian Voivodeship in the
Lesser Poland Province. For over 400 years Chyrów was a
private town of the powerful landowning
Ossoliński and
Mniszech families. In 1528 Chyrów, as it is called in Polish, received
Magdeburg rights, and three years later, the first
Roman Catholic church was founded there by
Andrzej Tarło. The wooden church probably burned down during the
Great Northern War, and in 1710, it was replaced by a brick structure. In 1740, a
synagogue opened in the town. In 1772, following the
First Partition of Poland, Chyrów was annexed by the
Habsburg Empire, and remained in Austrian
Galicia until late 1918. In 1872 a rail connection was established with a station. In the 1880s, a
state of the art vast purpose-built complex was erected there for a College on the outskirts of the town by the Polish province of the
Society of Jesus. In the interbellum period, Chyrów formed part of Sambor County, in the
Lwow Voivodeship. From 1944, the town and its surroundings was annexed by the USSR. Return of Khyriv to Poland was briefly considered following the
1951 Polish-Soviet Territorial Exchange, but was dismissed following the death of Joseph Stalin. With the
dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the town came under the jurisdiction of newly independent
Ukraine. Until 18 July 2020, Khyriv belonged to
Staryi Sambir Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Lviv Oblast to seven. The area of Staryi Sambir Raion was merged into
Sambir Raion. That same year Khyriv became the administrative center of
Khyriv Urban Hromada == Notable residents ==