Bolekhiv (Ukrainian: Болехів, IPA: [boˈlɛxiu̯] ⓘ; Polish: Bolechów; Yiddish: באָלעכאָוו) is a city in Kalush Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine.

During the Galicia–Volhynia Wars in the 14th century, Bolekhiv was variously held by Poland, Hungary (Danylo Dazhbohovych), and Lithuania.

At that time, the Bolechów region was involved with the Opryshky movement led by Oleksa Dovbush and German colonists arrived.

Following the Peace of Schönbrunn in 1809, the area was ceded to the Russian Empire but was returned to the Habsburg monarchy as a result of the Congress of Vienna in 1815.

Following the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany in summer 1941, the area was administrated as part of the General Government.

The municipality was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast to six.

The town founder proclaimed equal rights to the three ethnic groups living there, Jews, Polish Catholics and Ruthenians (Ukrainians of the Greek Orthodox), and this was confirmed by Sigismund III Vasa, the king of the new Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, formerly crown prince of Poland, the grand duke of Lithuania, and later to become king of Sweden.

[10] In October 1941, four months after capturing the town, the German police carried out a first Aktion (German annihilation operation) in Bolekhiv, which included a list of 1,000 of the Jewish rabbis, leaders, doctors and wealthy people, who were tortured for two days, and then shot in a nearby forest, some buried alive.

The Jews were warned in advance by a member of their Judenrat who was in a nearby town, but many of the local Ukrainians began a murder spree in the preceding afternoon, targeting mainly children, in horrific acts of barbarity.

Only 48 Jews of the town survived World War II[9] The Bolekhiv municipality was located in the western part of Ukraine in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast.

The communes were: In 2020, cities of regional significance were abolished, and Bolekhiv municipality merged into Kalush Raion.