Dovbysh

Urban locality in Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine

Urban-type settlement in Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine

Dovbysh Довбиш
Urban-type settlement
50°22′20″N 27°59′22″E / 50.372239°N 27.989475°E / 50.372239; 27.989475
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Zhytomyr Oblast
Raion	Zviahel Raion
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)

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]

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]

References

^ 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.
^ "Ukraine RD: Dovbysh".
^ "Yahad - in Unum".