Olhopil, Vinnytsia Oblast

Olhopil Ольгопіль
Village
Olhopil Location in Ukraine Olhopil Olhopil (Ukraine)
Coordinates:
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Vinnytsia Oblast
Raion	Haisyn Raion
Hromada	Olhopil rural hromada
First established	1780
Population  (1926)
• Total	2,172

Olhopil (Ukrainian: Ольгопіль) is a village in Haisyn Raion of Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine.

First known since 1780 as Rohuzka Chechelnytska (Ukrainian: Рогузка Чечельницька or Рогузки-Чечельницькі) it was a border town between the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Budjak Horde. In 1795 it was renamed Olgopol (Russian: Ольгополь) by Catherine II in the name of her granddaughter, Olga Pavlovna. It was also known as Holopol. In Imperial Russia it used to be a small town, the center of Olgopol uyezd of Podolia Governorate.

Before the 1917 Revolution, Olgopol (also, spelled Olhopil) was a district town in the province of Podolia. The Jewish population in 1847 was 247; by 1897 the number had increased to 2,473.

Olgopol suffered heavily in 1919 at the hands of the Ukrainian bands which were active in the surroundings. Jews were also attacked by the armies of Anton Ivanovich Denikin). In 1926 the Jewish population numbered 1,660 (76.4% of the total). At the time of the German-Romanian occupation (July 1941), most of the Jews fled from the townlet, which was incorporated into the zone annexed by the Rumanians (Transnistria). The Jews who remained were concentrated into a ghetto together with about 600 Jews who had been expelled from Bessarabia and Bukovina, all of them being submitted to forced labor in the vicinity.

Population

Language

Distribution of the population by native language according to the 2001 census:

Language	Percentage
Ukrainian	98.5%
Russian	1.3%
other/undecided	0.2%

Notable people

• Nataliya Polovynka (born 1965), singer and actress

Bibliography

• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Ольгополь, уездный город Подольской губернии" . Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (in Russian). 1906.