Sychyovka, Sychyovsky District, Smolensk Oblast

Sychyovka (Russian: Сычёвка) is a town and the administrative center of Sychyovsky District in Smolensk Oblast, Russia, located between the Vazuza and Losmina Rivers, 234 kilometers (145 mi) northeast of Smolensk, the administrative center of the oblast.

[citation needed] In 1493, it became a palace village in Vyazminsky Uyezd.

[citation needed] During World War II, the town was occupied by the German Army from October 10, 1941 until March 8, 1943, when it was liberated by troops of the Soviet Western Front.

On January 7, 1943, Jews of the town were murdered in a mass execution perpetrated by an Einsatzgruppen.

[1] As an administrative division, it is incorporated within Sychyovsky District as Sychyovskoye Urban Settlement.