In the past it was known as Butsnevtsy[1] (Polish: Bucniowce, Russian: Буцневцы / Буцнёвцы, Ukrainian: Буцніовци,[2] Буцнівці[3]), a small town in Poland, Russian Empire, Ukraine and early Soviet Union.

Bucniowce was a miasteczko in gmina Wójtowce [uk], powiat latyczowski (later Letichevsky Uyezd, Podolian Governorate, Russian Empire), by the Zhar River [uk].

[4] In 1880 it had population of 580, including 16 persons of odnodvortsy (petty szlachta deprived of nobility in Russian Empire after the Partitions of Poland) and 90 Jews.

[5] In Yiddish, it was called Butsnevits, and the search of this shtetl was the subject of Jack Rothman's book Searching for Butsnevits: A Shtetl Tale (2016) [6] - the place where his ancestors lived.

The fate of the Jews of Butsnevtsy is discussed, along with other Jewish communities of Letichev district, in the two-volume set by David A. Chapin and Ben Weinstock, The Road from Letichev [7] The neglected old Jewish cemetery is located in the wood nearby (49°17′46″N 27°45′17″E / 49.29613°N 27.75460°E / 49.29613; 27.75460) and is used for cattle grazing.