Rzhyshchiv
Rzhyshchiv
Ржищів | |
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Top: House of Culture; bottom left: Transfiguration Church; bottom right: Trinity Church | |
| Coordinates: 49°57′40″N 31°02′37″E / 49.96111°N 31.04361°E | |
| Country | Ukraine |
| Oblast | Kyiv Oblast |
| Raion | Obukhiv Raion |
| Hromada | Rzhyshchiv urban hromada |
| Founded | 1151 |
| Area | |
• Total | 35.6 km2 (13.7 sq mi) |
| Population (2022) | |
• Total | 7,175 |
| • Density | 200/km2 (520/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
| Area code | +380 4573 |
| Website | www |
Rzhyshchiv (Ukrainian: Ржищів, IPA: [ˈrʒɪʃtʃiu̯]; Russian: Ржищев; Yiddish: אירזיסטשוב, romanized: Irzistshub, also known by several alternative names; Polish: Rzyszczów) is a small city in Obukhiv Raion, Kyiv Oblast (province) of Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Rzhyshchiv urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population: 7,175 (2022 estimate). It is situated on Leglych river.
Until 18 July 2020, Rzhyshchiv was incorporated as a city of oblast significance. In July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Kyiv Oblast to seven, the city of Rzhyshchiv was merged into Obukhiv Raion.