{{short description|Rural locality in Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine}} {{Infobox settlement | name = Chechelnyk | settlement_type = [[Rural settlement (Ukraine)|Rural settlement]] | image_skyline = Синагога, смт. Чечельник.jpg | image_caption = The Synagogue of Chechelnyk, late 18th century | image_flag = | image_shield = Chechelnyk gerb.png | pushpin_map = Ukraine Vinnytsia Oblast#Ukraine | pushpin_label_position = | pushpin_map_caption = | coordinates = {{coord|48.217|N|29.350|E|display=it}} | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = {{UKR}} | subdivision_type1 = [[Oblasts of Ukraine|Oblast]] | subdivision_name1 = [[Vinnytsia Oblast]] | subdivision_type2 = [[Raions of Ukraine|District]] | subdivision_name2 = {{flag|Haisyn Raion}} | established_title = | established_date = | unit_pref = Metric | area_footnotes = | area_total_km2 = 7,94 | area_note = | elevation_footnotes = | elevation_m = | population_footnotes = | population_total = 4785 | population_as_of = 2022 | population_density_km2 = auto | population_note = | timezone = EET | utc_offset = +2 | timezone_DST = EEST | utc_offset_DST = +3 | postal_code_type = [[Postal code]] | postal_code = | area_code_type = [[Telephone numbering plan|Area code]] | area_code = | footnotes = | mapframe = yes | mapframe-zoom = 11 | mapframe-wikidata = yes }}
'''Chechelnyk''' (earlier also '''Chichelnik''';{{efn|Alternate spellings: ''Chetschelnik'', ''Chitchilnik'', ''Cicelnic'', ''Czeczelnik'', ''Tschetschelnik'', depending on the destination language.<ref>[[Gary Mokotoff]], [[Sallyann Amdur Sack]], and Alexander Sharon, ''Where Once We Walked: A Guide to the Jewish Communities Destroyed in the Holocaust'' (Avotaynu, 2002: {{ISBN|1-886223-15-7}}), p. 57.</ref>}} {{langx|uk|Чечельни́к}} {{IPA|uk|tʃetʃelʲˈnɪk|}}) is a [[Populated places in Ukraine#Rural settlements|rural settlement]] on the Savranka River (a tributary of the [[Southern Bug]]) in [[Vinnytsia Oblast]], [[Ukraine]], near [[Odesa Oblast]], located in the historic region of [[Podolia]]. Chechelnyk was formerly the administrative center of [[Chechelnyk Raion]], although it is now administrated under the [[Haisyn Raion]]. The economy is based on the food industry, especially alcohol production. Population: {{Ua-pop-est2022|4,785}}
== History == Chechelnyk was founded "as a refuge from Tatars and landlords"<ref>[[Benjamin Moser]], ''Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector'' (Oxford University Press US, 2009: {{ISBN|0-19-538556-X}}), p. 32.</ref> in the early 16th century and achieved the status of a town in 1635. Until the [[Partitions of Poland]] ''Czeczelnik'' was part of the [[Bracław Voivodeship]] of the [[Lesser Poland Province, Crown of the Kingdom of Poland|Lesser Poland Province]]. It was a [[private town]] of Poland, owned by the [[House of Lubomirski]].<ref>''[[Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland]]'', vol. 1, p. 781</ref><ref>Микола Крикун, "Воєводства Правобережної України у XVI-XVIII століттях: Статті і матеріали", p. 524</ref> The 5th Polish Vanguard Regiment was stationed in Czeczelnik in 1789, and the 2nd Polish Vanguard Regiment was stationed there in 1792.<ref>{{cite book|last=Gembarzewski|first=Bronisław|title=Rodowody pułków polskich i oddziałów równorzędnych od r. 1717 do r. 1831|year=1925|language=pl|publisher=Towarzystwo Wiedzy Wojskowej|location=Warszawa|pages=11–12}}</ref>
Later it became part of the [[Podolian Governorate]] of the [[Russian Empire]]. Between 1795 and 1812 it was renamed Olgopil. In 1898 the population was 7,000, of whom 1,967 were Jews. Like most of [[Podolia]], the town suffered terribly during the First World War and 1917-1921 [[Ukrainian War of Independence]]; during the summer of 1920, "the south of Podillya seethed with counterrevolution... and Olgopil County, where Chechelnyk is located, was the most unstable area in all of Podillya."<ref>Moser, ''Why This World'', p. 32.</ref>
Until 26 January 2024, Chechelnyk was designated [[urban-type settlement]]. On this day, a new law entered into force which abolished this status, and Chechelnyk became a rural settlement.<ref name="glavnoe">{{cite news |title=Что изменится в Украине с 1 января |url=https://glavnoe.in.ua/ru/novosti/chto-yzmenytsya-v-ukrayne-s-1-yanvarya |work=glavnoe.in.ua |language=ru| date=1 January 2024}}</ref>
== Notable residents ==
* [[Brazil]]ian writer [[Clarice Lispector]] was born in Chechelnyk during a pause in the family's journey to escape Russia.
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==External links== *[http://jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=404&letter=C Chechelnik] at ''[[Jewish Encyclopedia|JewishEncyclopedia.com]]'' *[https://web.archive.org/web/20110202145420/http://chechelnyk.com/ Chechelnyk.com] (in [[Ukrainian language|Ukrainian]]) * {{JewishGen-LocalityPage|1036900|Chechelnyk, Ukraine}}
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