Slavuta

Slavuta is a city in Shepetivka Raion of Khmelnytskyi Oblast in western Ukraine, on the Horyn River, roughly 80 kilometres from the oblast capital Khmelnytskyi. It is the seat of the Slavuta urban hromada and had an estimated population of 34,301 in 2023. The town lies in the historic region of Volhynia and was founded in 1633 by a member of the Zaslawski family. Its estates later passed to the Lubomirski family and then to the Sanguszko princes, who made it their family seat. After the partitions of Poland it was annexed by Russia, and between 1922 and 1939 it stood on the Soviet border with Poland. During the Second World War German forces occupied it from 1941 to 1944 and operated three prisoner-of-war camps there.