Khmelnytska

Khmelnytska is a town in western a part of Ukraine, the workplace for the Khmelnytskyi Oblast and the Khmelnytskyi Raion. Khmelnytska is positioned inside the historical area of Podolia on the banks of the Buh River. The town acquired its current local government designation in 1941. In 2015, the city's population turned into 267,973, making it the second one biggest city of the previous, archaic Podolia area after Vinnytsia and the biggest city of the western a part of the vicinity. The metropolis foundation date is uncertain. The territory, wherein Khmelnytskyi is situated, has been inhabited for a very long time.

Many archaeological discoveries had been found within the metropolis suburbs. For instance, to the East of Lezneve district, there was a agreement from the Bronze Age 2000 B.C. and from Scythian instances from 7^th or 3^rd century B.C. The first point out of the town turned into written with Cyrillic alphabet. From 1431 it changed into known as Ploskirow and became a part of the Kingdom of Poland. It turned into a royal metropolis. After the Second Partition of Poland in 1793, the town turned into annexed by means of the Russian Empire and became renamed Proskurov by Bohdan Khmelnytsky.