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Shepetivka (; ) is a town located on the Huska River in the Khmelnytskyi Oblast ( province) of Western Ukraine. The city's population is 43,379 (2013). Shepetivka is a town of oblast subordinance, and the administrative center of Shepetivskyi Raion ( district).
Shepetivka is an important railway junction with five intersecting transit routes. It is located 100 km away from Khmelnytskyi, the oblast's capital. There are 5 supermarkets in the town: "Vopak", "Nash Kraj", "Econom", "Alfa Plus", "Lotok".
A settlement called Shepetivka, belonging to the prince Ivan Zaslavsky, was first mentioned in a written document in 1594. In the 16th century Shepetivka didn’t differ from other settlements of Polesie. The settlement had a community and a windmill. It was given Magdeburg Rights at the end of the 16th century. This contributed the settlement’s expansion and growing population. At the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries the peasantry was intensively enslaved. Population of Shepetivka also suffered from frequent attacks of the Crimean Tatars. Peasants and craftsmen responded to the feudal oppression with the revolt in 1591-1593, led by Krzysztof Kosiński, and the revolt in 1594-1596, led by Severyn Nalyvaiko. When during the Ukrainian war of liberation from Poland in July 1648 peasant-Cossack regiments of Maxym Kryvonis had conquered Polonne, the inhabitants of Shepetivka joined the troops. At the end of the 17th century Shepetivka became property of Lubomirski family, and in 1703, of the Sanguszko family. And at the end of the 18th century it became part of Iziaslav county, Volhynian Governorate. In 1866 Shepetivka became the capital of the county.
- 1594 first written mention of Shepetivka
- 1795 becomes part of Iziaslav County, Volhynian Governorate
- 1873 railway station is built
- 1923 gets status of a town, becoming the capital of Shepetovka district
- 1932 becomes the capital of Shepetivka Raion, Vinnytsia Oblast
- 1937 Shepetivka Raion becomes part of Kamianets-Podilskyi (since 1954 Khmelnytskyi) Oblast