Andrushivka

Andrushivka Андрушівка
City
Skyline of Andrushivka from the city park
Flag Coat of arms
Andrushivka Location in the Ukraine
Coordinates: 50°1′N 29°1′E / 50.017°N 29.017°E / 50.017; 29.017Coordinates: 50°1′N 29°1′E / 50.017°N 29.017°E / 50.017; 29.017
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Zhytomyr Oblast
Raion	Andrushivka Raion
Area
• Total	6.8 km2 (2.6 sq mi)
Population (2001)
• Total	9,890
• Density	1,337/km2 (3,460/sq mi)
Time zone	EET (UTC+2)
• Summer (DST)	EEST (UTC+3)

Andrushivka (Ukrainian: Андрушівка, Russian: Андрушевка, Polish: Andruszówka, Yiddish: אנדרושיווקע‎ Andrushivke) is a city in Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine and the administrative center of Andrushivka Raion. Population: 9,038 (2013 est.) In 2001, population was 9,890.

The city is located in the south-east of the oblast, on the banks of the Huyva River, a distance of 47 km from the regional capital of Zhytomyr. Andrushivka received city status in 1975. The town hosts Andrushivka Astronomical Observatory (A50). It is connected by railway, served by Andrushivka railway station.

The territory of modern Andrushivka was settled as early as the 1st millennium BC. Implements of the Bronze Age have been unearthed in nearby settlements as well as the remains of the Cherniahivs'ka culture.

In historical sources, Andrushivka was first mentioned as Andrusovky in 1683. In the seventeenth century the village became the property of the Polish magnates Burzynski, which exploited the local population to work hard. Burzynski built the Burzynski Palace in Andrushivka. The Jews first arrived in Andrushivka in 1784. In 1793, after the second division of the Commonwealth, Andrusivka was annexed by the Russian Empire.

Andrushivka gradually increased in size and population. By 1798 it has population of 1046 people, a working distillery with two boilers, three water mills, one on horse-drawn. By the mid nineteenth century, Andrushevka had a tannery, distillery and bi-weekly fairs. Agricultural practice, however, was the chief source of income and soil and climatic conditions were favorable for growing sugar beet, and with the availability of large reserves of land it fueled the rapid development of sugar industry in Andrushivka Raion. Initially there was one small plantation on the left bank of the Huyvy, known as Yatsyukoviy. Laborers came from the surrounding villages and beet was extracted by primitive methods, using horses and oxen. The growth of the population let to a demand for tertiary employment, builders and other jobs which were often carried out seasonally, and the hiring peasants from surrounding villages rose steadily after the abolition of serfdom in 1861.