Horodok, Khmelnytskyi Oblast

Horodok is a city in Khmelnytskyi Raion, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, in the historical region of Podolia in western Ukraine. It sits on the Smotrych river and is the seat of the Horodok urban hromada. Known in Polish as Grodek, it was first called Nowodwor and was a private town held by noble families including the Herburt, Swiercz and Zamoyski families, who rebuilt it after Tatar raids with Polish settlers. It passed to Russia after the Second Partition of Poland in 1793, opened a sugar factory in 1837 and saw a battle between Ukrainian and Bolshevik forces in July 1919. Until July 2020 it was the administrative centre of Horodok Raion. Its 2022 population estimate is 15,633, and it has a sizeable Polish community.