Makhnivka (Ukrainian: Махнівка; Russian: Махновка; Yiddish: מאכניווקא[a]) is a village in Khmilnyk Raion of Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine, located on the west bank of the Hnylopiat River.

[2] The village is notable for its historical Jewish population, including the Machnovka Hasidic dynasty that has its origins in Makhnivka.

[2] Orthodox Tsarist Russia, which was intolerant of Jews, suddenly acquired a significant Jewish population in the territories annexed from Catholic Poland.

As a result, the Pale of Settlement was created, generally restricting Jews to living in the new territories, but not in "Russia proper".

[1] On an 1845 Russian map, Makhnivka was shown as the administrative center of Makhnovka uyezd within Kiev Governorate.

[3] In 1923, after the collapse of the Russian Empire and Ukraine's inclusion in the Soviet Union, Makhnivka was designated a village, and subordinated to Berdychiv Okruha [uk] within the Ukrainian SSR.

[2] In the late 1920, a heder, a type of Jewish primary school, was set up in the village, and was attended by a few dozen children.

The Germans captured the village on 14 July 1941 and on 9 September murdered 835 Jews in the Zhezhelevsk forest 5 km (3 mi) from Komsomolske.