Khyriv (Ukrainian: Хирів, IPA: [ˈxɪriu̯] ⓘ; Polish: Chyrów) is a city in Sambir Raion, Lviv Oblast (region) of Ukraine with a population of around 4,249 (2022 estimate).
In 1528 Chyrów, as it is called in Polish, received Magdeburg rights, and three years later, the first Roman Catholic church was founded there by Andrzej Tarło.
In the 1880s, a state of the art vast purpose-built complex was erected there for a College on the outskirts of the town by the Polish province of the Society of Jesus.
[5] With the outbreak of the Second World War, the Red Army occupied the entire region in September 1939 until 1941, when it was seized by the German Wehrmacht until 1944, before being re-taken by forces of the Soviet Union.
Return of Khyriv to Poland was briefly considered following the 1951 Polish-Soviet Territorial Exchange, but was dismissed following the death of Joseph Stalin.