| Malekhiv | |
| Native Name: | Малехів |
| Native Name Lang: | uk |
| Other Name: | Polish: Malechów |
| Settlement Type: | village |
| Pushpin Map: | Ukraine#Ukraine Lviv Oblast |
| Coordinates: | 49.8817°N 24.2419°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Type2: | District |
| Subdivision Name2: | Lviv Raion |
| Established Title: | Established |
| Established Date: | 1377 |
| Unit Pref: | Metric |
| Area Total Km2: | 5,79 |
| Elevation Footnotes: | /(average value of) |
| Elevation M: | 268 |
| Population Total: | 3 000 |
| Population Density Km2: | 403,450 |
| Timezone: | EET |
| Utc Offset: | +2 |
| Timezone Dst: | EEST |
| Utc Offset Dst: | +3 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
| Postal Code: | 80383 |
| Area Code Type: | Area code |
| Area Code: | +380 322 |
| Website: | село Малехів (Ukrainian) |
Malekhiv (Ukrainian: Малехів) is a village in Lviv Raion of Lviv Oblast located at a distance of 6km (04miles) northeast of the city of Lviv. It is at a distance 29km (18miles) from the raion’s seat, Zhovkva, and 7km (04miles) from Velyki Hrybovychi. Malekhiv belongs to Lviv urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.[1]
Elevation footnotes (average value of) is 268m (879feet).[2] Local government — Malekhivska village council.[3]
Through the village passes Highway M06 (Ukraine) ().
The first mention of the village of Malekhiv in historical documents refers to 1377.[4] But Ancient people have lived in territory of village Malekhiv in the first century AD.
History of the name — Malechow (Lemberg Umgebung), Galicia, Austria; later Malechów (Lwów), Lwów, Poland; now Malekhiv, Zhovkva, L′viv, Ukraine.[5]
Until 18 July 2020, Malekhiv belonged to Zhovkva 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 Zhovkva Raion was merged into Lviv Raion.[6] [7]
In the village there are three religious communities. This religious community of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, the Roman Catholic Church and Religious Communities Ukrainian Orthodox Autocephalous Church.
There has church Cathedral of the Most Holy Theotokos, which belongs to the Greek Catholic community (the temple was built in 1892), and Catholic church of St. Archangel Michael (was built in 70 years of the 18th century).