Derazhnya

Derazhnia Деражня
City
Derazhnia railway station
Seal
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Khmelnytsky Oblast
Founded	1431
Population (2001)
• Total	10,500

Derazhnia (Ukrainian: Деражня; Polish: Dzierażnia; also Derazhnya) is a city and railway station in the Khmelnytskyi Oblast (province) of western Ukraine. Derazhnia is situated along the banks of the Vovk River (meaning wolf in Ukrainian), 42 km east from the regional center Khmelnytskyi. An important railway junction on the line Lviv-Khmelnytskyi-Zhmerynka. Derazhnia has 10,500 inhabitants (2001 census). Derazhnia is the administrative center of Derazhnianskyi Raion. Postal code for Derazhnia is 32200. In terms of religious affiliation, local Ukrainian inhabitants belong mainly to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Derazhnia Milk Plant is one of key enterprises in the city. Local Sugar Factory was 5th largest in Ukraine, defunct from the late 1990s - early 21st century. There are also chemical and brickworks industries.

Derazhnia was founded in 1431. Turkish records from 1542-3 report that the town site had a small Cossack detachment consisting of no more than a few huts. In 1552 there were only eleven persons living in Derazhnia, four of whom later died in an epidemic. Tatars attacked the town in 1567. Derazhnia was attacked by Bogdan Khmelnitsky's cossacks in 1648. Derazhnia was occupied by Turkey in 1672, becoming part of the Turkish Ejalet of Kamieniecki. In 1682, Derazhnia was recaptured by the Poles under Jan Sobiesky. A small castle was built here that lasted into the early 20th century but is now destroyed.