What is "obukhiv"

Obukhiv (, ) is a city in Kiev Oblast ( province) of Ukraine. Population: . In 2001, population was 32,776.

Administratively, it is incorporated as a town of oblast significance. Obukhiv is also an administrative center of the Obukhiv Raion, though it does not belong to the reion. Two other nearby villages, Lendy and Tatsenky, are subordinated to Obukhiv Municipality. The city has a Holodomor memorial and in 2009 the municipal administration took down the Lenin monument which was repeatedly vandalized. It is 178 km south - southeast of Chernobyl.