Hoholiv

Hoholiv (Ukrainian: Гоголів) is a former Cossack town, and present-day village, in Brovary Raion, Kyiv Oblast of Ukraine.

Intensive development of the town began at the beginning of the 17th century when it was mentioned in the sources of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth under the name Chocholiw.

At that time it was a big free Cossack town situated on the trade roots near Kyiv.

After the incorporation of the lands of Cossack Hetmanate into the Tsardom of Russia in the second half of the 17th century chronicles of that period mention Cossack insurgency against the czarist government of that time near the village.

A lot of people were killed by troops of the Muscovite Army who oppressed the insurgents.