Klevan

Klevan is an urban-type settlement in Rivne Raion of Rivne Oblast province in western Ukraine. Its population was 7,470 at the 2001 Ukrainian census. A settlement on the modern-day territory of Klevan became first founded in the starting of the twelfth century at the banks of the Stubla River, a tributary of the Horyn. At the time, the settlement became named Kolyvan or Kolivan. The first written mention of Klevan seemed in 1458, as a possession of the Czartoryski circle of relatives.In 1654, the settlement became granted Magdeburg rights and in 1940, the metropolis obtained the status of an urban-kind settlement.

As in all cities and cities of the Volhynia, Klevan had a vast Jewish network, and a Polish guidebook from 1929 described it as a the Jewish town with a population of 1,300 people". The town changed into occupied through the Soviets and then the Germans at some point of World War II and in 1941 the neighborhood synagogue was burned by using the Fascists and the neighborhood Jews have been exterminated. The Poles persisted to stay in Klevan until they had been evicted by using the Soviets in the course of Operation Wisla. Klevan additionally have become the centre of the deployment of national-liberation warfare of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. In 1979 it had a population of 8,400 people.