Dovbysh

Dovbysh

Dovbysh

Urban locality in Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine

Dovbysh (Ukrainian: Довбиш; Polish: Dołbysz) is an urban-type settlement in Zviahel Raion, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine. The settlement was previously known as Markhlevsk (Ukrainian: Мархлевськ; Polish: Marchlewsk) after the Polish-born Soviet politician and civil activist Julian Marchlewski. Population: 4,071 (2022 estimate)[1]

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History

In the 1920s Marchlewsk was an administrative center of Marchlewszczyzna, a Polish National Raion of Zhytomyr Okruha [ru]. Later it was incorporated into Kyiv Oblast.[citation needed]

During World War II, Jews of the town[2] were murdered in a mass execution perpetrated by an Einsatzgruppe.[3]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Чисельність наявного населення України на 1 січня 2022 [Number of Present Population of Ukraine, as of January 1, 2022] (PDF) (in Ukrainian and English). Kyiv: State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 July 2022.
  2. [2]
    "Ukraine RD: Dovbysh".
  3. [3]
    "Yahad - in Unum".

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