Country Ukraine District Slavuta Raion Elevation/(average value of) 228 m (748 ft) Area 4.36 km² | Province Khmelnytskyi Oblast Established 1594 Time zone EET (UTC+2) Local time Saturday 3:42 AM | |
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Dovzhky (Ukrainian: До́вжки, alternative name – Ukrainian: Должок, Довжок) – village (selo) in Ukraine of Slavuta Raion, Khmelnytskyi Oblast.
Area of the village totals is 4,36 km2 and the population of the village is about 952 people. Local government is administered by Dovzhkivska village council.
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Map of Dovzhky, Khmelnytska, Ukraine
Geography
This village is located on the altitude of 228 metres (750 ft) above sea level. It is a flat terrain at a distance 147 kilometres (91 mi) from the regional center of Khmelnytskyi, 30 kilometres (19 mi) from the district center Slavuta and 21 kilometres (13 mi) from the Berezdiv.
History
The first written sources of the village have been preserved from the years 1594-1595. But in territory of village are found tools copper-stone age ) (3rd millennium BC).
Direction of the economy of the local population – agriculture and meat dairy farming.
Before the Second World War the population of village Dovzhky was about 2,000 people and was a few Jewish families. A terrible fate awaited the Jews of Slavuta district during the fascist occupation of 1941 – 1942. All of them were taken to ghetto and killed by the Nazis.