Khmilnyk

Khmilnyk is a resort city in Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine, and the administrative centre of Khmilnyk Raion. It stands on the upper Southern Bug river about 67 kilometres northeast of Vinnytsia and is counted among the oldest towns of Podillia; it was first mentioned in writing in 1362 and its name means a hop garden. The town passed through Polish-Lithuanian, Ottoman and Russian rule, and a stone castle tower and the Holy Trinity Church of 1603 survive from those centuries. Radon water discovered in 1934 made it a balneological spa, designated a resort of republican value in 1970, with seven health centres. The Jewish population was destroyed in January 1942, and a memorial to the victims opened in 2002. The 2022 estimate gives 26,916 residents.