Proskuriv, Russian Empire

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Proskuriv, Russian Empire was a town in the southwestern part of the Russian Empire, in present-day Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine.

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Proskuriv, Russian Empire canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf historical town
settlement
administrativeRole uyezd center
administrativeUnitOf Proskurivsky Uyezd
country Russian Empire
currentAdministrativeRegion Khmelnytskyi Oblast
economicActivity small-scale industry
trade
formerNameOf Khmelnytskyi
geographicFeature forest-steppe zone of Ukraine
governedBy Tsarist administration
linked to: Tsarist government
governedUnder imperial Russian law
hasEthnicCommunity Jews
Poles
Russians
Ukrainians
hasJewishCommunityStatus shtetl-like urban community
hasStatus provincial town
hasUrbanType county-level town
historicalEvent Proskuriv pogrom of 1919
Russian Revolution of 1917
linked to: Russian Revolution

Ukrainian War of Independence (1917–1921)
World War I
historicalRegion Podolia
historicalSuccessorEntity Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
linked to: Soviet Ukraine
languageUsed Polish
Russian
Ukrainian
Yiddish
laterUnderControlOf Soviet Ukraine
Ukrainian People's Republic
locatedIn Podolia Governorate
southwestern part of the Russian Empire
locatedOnRiver Southern Bug River
nearBorderWith Austro-Hungarian Empire
partOf Southwestern Krai
Western borderlands of the Russian Empire
presentDayCountry Ukraine
presentDayLocation Khmelnytskyi
religionPresent Eastern Orthodoxy
Judaism
Roman Catholicism
renamedAs Khmelnytskyi
renamingHonors Bohdan Khmelnytsky
timePeriod 19th century
early 20th century
transportRole regional transport hub

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Ariel Durant placeOfBirth Proskuriv, Russian Empire