Hraniv also Graniv (Ukrainian: Гранів; Old Polish: Granów;[1] Russian: Гранов; Yiddish: גראַנאָוו) is a village in the Krasnopil rural hromada, Haisyn Raion, Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine.
According to local legend, the settlement was initially established in the year 1007, and was called Verbych, named after the river that flows through it.
Some scholars and historians dispute this claim, saying that it is difficult to prove the age of the village beyond the establishment of Vinnytsia in 1363, despite the millennium celebration of Hraniv occurring in 2007.
[pl][10] During Stalin's reign in the 1930s, Hraniv, being part of the Vinnytsia region, became one of many towns in which citizens were targeted and executed during the Great Purge.
[14] The town, although originally established before Jewish migration to Eastern Europe, was historically a Jewish-dominated shtetl throughout the period of occupancy by Imperial Russia under the Podolia Governorate.