KHMELNYTSKYI, UKRAINE

'Khmelnytskyi' (, translit.: ''Khmel'nyts'kyi''; ; ) is a city in Ukraine in the region of Podillia. It is located on the Southern Buh River and about 340km from the Ukrainian capital, Kiev. The city was founded in 1493 as ''Proskuriv'', later ''Proskurov'', but in 1954 was renamed ''Khmelnytskyi'' on the three-hundredth anniversary of a treaty negotiated by Bohdan Khmelnytsky. It is the center of the Khmelnytskyi Oblast in Ukraine. The alternative transliterations of the name include ''Khmelnitskiy'', ''Khmelnitsky'', and ''Khmelnytskyy''. The city is served by Khmelnytskyi Ruzhichnaya Airport. As of 2005, the city's population is 254,000.
The town was notable for a series of pogroms carried out in the region, the last of which claimed an estimated 1,500 lives on February 15, 1919.
Khmelnytskyi should not be confused with Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi, a city in Ukraine's Kiev Oblast.
The football team FC Podillya Khmelnytskyi is based in Khmelnytskyi.

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Famous people from Khmelnytskyi

★ Ariel Durant, author and historian She, with her husband, Will Durant, described the history of Western civilization in a series of works.

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★ khmelnytsky.com - Khmelnytskyi City Rada website

★ west.net - The Proskurov Massacre

★ Bloody Bacchanalia: west.net - The Pogroms of Proskurov and Felshtin

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