Khodorkiv
Khodorkiv
Ukrainian: Ходорків | |
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Interactive map of Khodorkiv | |
| Coordinates: 50°5′50″N 29°18′29″E / 50.09722°N 29.30806°E | |
| Country | Ukraine |
| Oblast | Zhytomyr Oblast |
| Raion | Zhytomyr Raion |
| Hromada | Popilnia settlement hromada |
| Elevation | 212 m (696 ft) |
| Population (2001) | |
• Total | 1,371 |
| Postal code | 13520 |
| Area code | +380 4137 |
Khodorkiv (Ukrainian: Ходорків) is a village (population 1,371; 0.7037 km²) in Zhytomyr Oblast, in Zhytomyr Raion, located on the Irpin River.
Founded in 1471. Former seat of the Khodorkiv municipality in Skvyra County in the Kiev Governorate. At the end of the 19th century, a suburb of the town was called Pustelniki.
During the Nazi occupation, in the forest in 1941, the Germans established a Jewish ghetto for the town's Jewish residents. About 200 people were confined there. On 15 October 1941, the Germans liquidated the ghetto and murdered the Jews on the premises of the Widrodzhennia kolkhoz.