Mlyniv (Ukrainian: Млинів; Polish: Młynów) is a rural settlement in Rivne Oblast (province) in western Ukraine.

[4] At its northern outskirts on the right bank of the river Ikva, traces of a flint tool shop and remnants of the old Ruthenian settlement of Muravytsia, mentioned in chronicles from 1149, were discovered.

[4] Mlyniv itself was first mentioned when Grand Duke Alexander Jagiellon gave it away to someone by the name of Bobr sometime in beginning of 16th century.

[4] After extinguishing the peasant revolts, the new owner of the settlement, Prince Chodkiewicz, built a new palace and kościół (Roman Catholic church).

[4] Following the partition of Poland, in 1795 Mlyniv was included at first to the Volhynian Viceroyalty and in two years to Dubno County of the Podolia Governorate.

A small but growing Jewish community was present in Mlyniv in the early 1800s when the area became part of Russia in the Second Partition of Poland.

[4] After the 1861 Russian agrarian reform, the local peasants had to pay chynsh (quit-rent), eight poods of grain from one morgue (.56 hectares (1.4 acres)).

[4] During the 1905 Revolution, the iron casting shop fell under the influence of the Konotop branch of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party.

[4] According to a memoir by Clara Fram, the iron casting shop was owned by her great-grandfather, Moshe Gruber, one of the Jewish families in town.

[4] In February 1918, Mlyniv was liberated from the Soviet authorities with help of Austro-German troops[4] and became part of the Ukrainian People's Republic.

[4][clarification needed] According to the 1921 Treaty of Riga, Mlyniv became part of the Second Polish Republic (Wołyń Voivodeship).

[4] In February 1926 a local chapter of the Communist Party of Western Ukraine was founded, and in 1935, its youth wing Komsomol.

[4] The action requested help for Republican Spain (Spanish Civil War), as well as to fight fascism and for the democratization of Poland and liberation of West Ukraine.

Soon after the start of World War II and the next partition of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, the village, as part of West Ukraine, was again occupied (liberated) by the Red Army.

[12] Notably, the Ukrainian sotnia led by Hryrory Levko ("Kruk") operated in the area until 1947,[13] long after the Soviet counter-offensive of 1944.

[12] The Polish self-defence in Młynów managed to hold back the repeated raids by the Ukrainian nationalists as one of only several such outposts, which also included the civilian defence of Kurdybań Warkowicki, Lubomirka, Klewań, Rokitno, Budki Snowidowickie, and Osty.

Mlyniv was liberated from the occupation of Nazi Germany by the Soviet 13th Guard Cavalry Division under commander Pyotr Zubov.

[4] Since May 1953 the Mlyniv Hydro-Electric Station has been in operation with single turbine made by Austrian company Voith.