Skvyra

Skvyra lies in the country southwest of Kyiv, in the basin of the Ros. The old settlement was destroyed at the end of the sixteenth century, but a village of the same name was recorded again in 1736. Its eighteenth-century community included Jewish families: the census of 1765 counted 51 Jewish-owned houses among 124 in the settlement. Skvyra's later growth built upon this renewed village and its local market.