Makariv
town in Ukraine
Makariv (Ukrainian: Макарів) is a rural settlement in Bucha Raion, in Kyiv Oblast (province) of Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Makariv settlement hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. The population of the settlement is 9,390 (2022 estimate), down from 12,042 in 2001.
History
The initial documented history of Makariv is connected with the village of Voronin, which was one of the Yasinets estates of the Lithuanian feudal lords Ivashentsevichs (Vasentsevychi). It was mentioned for the first time as part of the estates of the Yasinetsky family in 1506. Makar Vasentsevich, who began to live permanently in Voronin, changed his surname to Makarovich, and the name of the village to Makariv. There was a castle in Makarov from the 16th to the 18th century. In the last years of Polish rule, a small garrison armed with cannons was housed in the castle.
In the late 16th century Makarovichi built an estate. During the Khmelnytsky Uprising (1648–1676), the Makariv estate was burned down, and the local population actively joined the Ukrainian national liberation movement.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Makariv” as town in Ukraine. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
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The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as town in Ukraine. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2641614. VIAF identifies the subject as 307458273. The Library of Congress control number is no2014013851. Authority coordinates are 50.465, 29.807. None of the 3 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2022, 2001, 1506 and 1648.
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