Ananiv (Ukrainian: Ананьїв, pronounced [ɐˈnɑnʲjiu̯] ⓘ; Russian: Ананьев, romanized: Ananyev; Yiddish: אַנאַניעוו, romanized: Ananiev; Romanian: Ananiev, also Nani) is a city of Podilsk Raion in Odesa Oblast, Ukraine.
According to the 2001 census, the majority of the population of Ananiv was Ukrainian -speaking (87.88%), with Russian (9.43%) and Romanian (2.08%) speakers in the minority.
[3] The town belonged to Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic from 1924 to 1940.
[9] In April 1887, a mob attacked and destroyed 175 Jewish homes and 14 shops.
Jews were murdered in nearby Mostove, and the rest a month later in Gvozdiovka.