[4] The community was severely damaged during the Chmielnicki uprising in 1649, and two poems about the destruction were written in Hebrew and Turkic Karaim language by the leader of the congregation, Hazzan Joseph ben Yesh'uah Ha-Mashbir.

[5] Apparently, a small Karaite community survived until the Haidamakas uprising in 1768[6] During the Second Polish Republic (1918-1939) Derazhne was the seat of the rural municipality in the district of Rivne Derażne, and from 1 January 1925, of Kostopol Volyn province.

[7] After the Nazi German troops entered Derazhne on June 28, 1941, the ghetto was organized on October 5, 1941, and it was liquidated on August 24, 1942.

[10] Ukrainian artist and OUN activist Nil Khasevich (1905-1952) served as a Judge in Derazhne during the Nazi occupation period in 1941.

[11] Ukrainian and Russian poet Rostislav Zass (1940-1999) lived for many years and was buried in Derazhne.