Pohrebysche Погребище
Coat of arms
Pohrebysche Location of Pohrebysche
Coordinates: 49°29′0″N 29°16′0″E / 49.483333°N 29.266667°E / 49.483333; 29.266667Coordinates: 49°29′0″N 29°16′0″E / 49.483333°N 29.266667°E / 49.483333; 29.266667
Country Oblast Raion	Ukraine Vinnytsia Oblast Pohrebyschensky Raion
First mentioned	XII c. as town of Rokitnya. Become a town in 1938, administrative center in 1984
Population (2001).
- Total	10,754
Postal code	22200
Area code(s)	+380 +486

Pohrebysche (Ukrainian: Погребище) is a town in Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Pohrebyschensky Raion (district) in western Ukraine. Pohrebysche is situated near the sources of the Ros River.

Names

Pohrebysche is also known as Polish: Pohrebyszcze, Russian: Погребище Pogrebischtsche or Pogrebishchye, Yiddish: פרהאבישטא Prhobisht

History

The town is very old and origin of its name is not clear. Pogreb means a big cellar in Ukrainian. On another hand Pogrebaty can be interpreted as to perform a burial. According to a legend, put down by Ukrainian ethnographer Pokhilevich, before Mongol invasion of Rus, during the times of Kyiv the town was called Rokitnya. Mongols level the town leaving only the cellars.

Synagogue and parochial church (Pohrebyszcze) by Napoleon Orda

People

Countess Ewelina Hańska (Rzewuska) a Polish noblewoman (szlachcianka) was born January 6, 1801 in Pohrebysche. Ewelina was the sister of Henryk Rzewuski. She was married to Wacław Hański, a landowning noble, who was about twenty years older than she was. After his death she became wife of the French novelist Honoré de Balzac in 1850.

Other Nearby Communities

• Vinnytsia 40 miles (64 km) ENE
• Plyskiv 8 miles (13 km) S
• Borshchahovka 12 miles (19 km) E
• Ruzhyn 16 miles (26 km) N
• Belilovka 17 miles (27 km) NW
• Samhorodok 19 miles (31 km) W
• Tetiiv 19 miles (31 km) ESE
• Lypovets 20 miles (32 km) SSW
• Zhivotivka 21 miles (34 km) SE
• Vakhnovka 22 miles (35 km) WSW
• Skvyra 25 miles (40 km) NE
• Koziatyn 25 miles (40 km) NW
• Illintsi 25 miles (40 km) S
• Pavoloch 28 miles (45 km) NNE
• Volodarka 29 miles (47 km) E
• Balabanivka 30 miles (48 km) SSE
• Berdychiv 42 miles (68 km) SE

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