Shepetivka

Shepetivka Шепетівка
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Shepetivka
Coordinates: 50°11′0″N 27°04′0″E
Country Oblast Raion	Ukraine Khmelnytskyi Oblast Shepetivka Raion
First mentioned	1594
Town rights	1923
Area
- Total	40 km2 (15.4 sq mi)
Population (2010)
- Total	43,661
- Density	1,199/km2 (3,105.4/sq mi)
Postal code	30400 - 30409
Area code(s)	+380 3840
Website	www.shepetivka.km.ua

Shepetivka (Ukrainian: Шепетівка; Russian: Шепетовка, Shepetovka) is a town located on the Huska River in the Khmelnytskyi Oblast (province) of Western Ukraine. The city's population is 48,212 (according to 2001 Ukrainian census). Shepetivka is a town of oblast subordinance, and the administrative center of Shepetivka Raion (district).

Shepetivka is an important railway junction with five intersecting transit routes. It is located 100 km away from Khmelnytskyi, the oblast's capital. There are 2 supermarkets in the town: "Vopak", "Nash Kraj".

A settlement called Shepetivka, belonging to the prince Ivan Zaslavsky, was first mentioned in a written document in 1594. In XVI century Shepetivka didn’t differ from other settlings of Polesie. The settlement had a community and a windmill. It was given Magdeburg Rights at the end of XVI century. This contributed the settlement’s expansion and growing population. At the turn of XVI and XVII centuries the peasantry was intensively enslaved. Population of Shepetivka also suffered from frequent attacks of the Crimean Tatars. Peasants and craftsmen responded to the feudal oppression with the revolt in 1591-1593, led by Krzysztof Kosiński, and the revolt in 1594-1596, led by Severyn Nalyvaiko. When during the Ukrainian war of liberation from Poland in July of 1648 peasant-Cossack regiments of Maxym Kryvonis had conquered Polonne, the inhabitants of Shepetivka joined the troops. At the end of XVII century Shepetivka became property of Lubomirski family, and in 1703, of the Sanguszko family. And at the end of XVIII century it became part of Iziaslav county, Volhynian Governorate. In 1866 Shepetivka became the capital of the county.

• 1594 first written mention of Shepetivka
• 1795 becomes part of Iziaslav County, Volhynian Governorate
• 1873 railway station is built
• 1923 gets status of a town, becoming the capital of Shepetovka district
• 1930 becomes the capital of Shepetivka Raion, Vinnytsia Oblast
• 1937 Shepetivka Raion becomes part of Kamianets-Podilskyi (since 1954 Khmelnytskyi) Oblast

Famous residents

• Grand Rebbe Yaakov Shimshon of Shepetivka was a student of Rebbe Pinchas of Koretz. Shepetivka is also the burial place of Rebbe Pinchas of Koretz himself.
• Valentina Matviyenko, governor of Saint Petersburg, was born in Shepetivka.
• Ignacy Jan Paderewski, pianist, composer, and Polish prime minister, lived near Shepetivka as a child

See also

• Vopak open supermarket in Shepetivka
• Smak open supermarket in Shepetivka
• "Nash kraj" open supermarket in Shepetivka