Orzhiv

Orzhiv Оржів
Rural settlement
Transfiguration church
Flag Coat of arms
Orzhiv Location of Orzhiv in Ukraine
Coordinates: 50°45′04″N 26°07′07″E
Country	Ukraine
Province	Rivne Oblast
District	Rivne Raion
Founded	1445
Town status	1959
Government
• Town Head	Yuriy Bobrovnik
Area
• Total	8.95 km^2 (3.46 sq mi)
Elevation [1]	176 m (577 ft)
Population  (2001)
• Total	4,230
• Density	470/km^2 (1,200/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code	35313
Area code	+380 362
Website	http://rada.gov.ua/

Orzhiv (Ukrainian: Оржів) is a rural settlement in Rivne Raion (district) of Rivne Oblast (province) in western Ukraine. Its population was 4,230 as of the 2001 Ukrainian Census.[2] Current population: 3,853 (2022 estimate).[3]

History

Orzhiv was first founded in the beginning of the 16th century, and it acquired the status of an urban-type settlement in 1959. On 26 January 2024, a new law entered into force which abolished this status, and Orzhiv became a rural settlement.[4]

Geography

The town is 20 km northwest of Rivne, 61 km east of Lutsk. It counts a railway station on the Rivne-Kovel line, and is also the eastern terminus of the "Tunnel of Love", an amusement railway linking it to Klevan, surrounded by green arches.

See also

• Klevan and Kvasyliv, the other two urban-type settlements in Rivne Raion of Rivne Oblast

References

1. "Orzhiv (Rivne Oblast, Rivne Raion)". weather.in.ua. Retrieved 9 February 2012.
2. "Orzhiv, Rivne Oblast, Rivne Raion". Regions of Ukraine and their Structure (in Ukrainian). Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Retrieved 9 February 2012.
3. 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.
4. "Что изменится в Украине с 1 января". glavnoe.in.ua (in Russian). 1 January 2024.

External links

Media related to Orzhiv at Wikimedia Commons