Chudniv | |
Native Name: | Чуднів |
Settlement Type: | City |
Pushpin Map: | Ukraine#Ukraine Zhytomyr Oblast |
Pushpin Label Position: | right |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in the Ukraine |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Ukraine |
Subdivision Type1: | Oblast |
Subdivision Name1: | Zhytomyr Oblast |
Subdivision Type2: | Raion |
Subdivision Name2: | Zhytomyr Raion |
Subdivision Type3: | Hromada |
Subdivision Name3: | Chudniv urban hromada |
Population As Of: | 2022 |
Population Total: | 5357 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Timezone: | EET |
Utc Offset: | +2 |
Timezone Dst: | EEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +3 |
Coordinates: | 50.0528°N 28.1122°W |
Chudniv (Чуднів, Polish: Cudnów, Yiddish: טשודנאוו, Russian: Чуднов) is a city in Zhytomyr Raion, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine. Prior to 2020, it was the administrative center of the former Chudniv Raion. Population:
A significant battle of the Russo-Polish War (1654–1667) was fought near the town in 1660, followed by a treaty between the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Cossacks, named after the city. In 1866 Polish Romantic-era novelist Henryk Rzewuski died in Chudniv. The Jewish population was important in the town. During World War II, the Germans occupied the town and kept the Jews imprisoned in a ghetto. In 1941, they were murdered in mass executions perpetrated by an Einsatzgruppen of Germans and Ukrainian policemen.[1]