[2] The settlement within the modern city of Hnivan (except for the territory of the village of Vytava) arose thanks to the laying of the Kyiv-Odesa railway in 1870 (it was then that the built station got the name of the nearest settlement – the village of Hnivan) and one of the largest landowners in Podolia, Yuzef (Josyp) Yaroshynskyi.

[4] There were 360 Jews living in the city before World War II, 11% of the total population.

Shortly after the start of the occupation, a group of Jewish men of Hnivan was shot in a field.

The rest of the Jews living in Hnivan were registered and forced to perform various kinds of hard labor.

The city was formed on the basis of the territories of the urban-type settlement of Hnivan, the neighboring villages of Vytava and Vytavska Slobidka.