Volochysk (Ukrainian: Волочиськ, IPA: [woloˈtʃɪsʲk] ⓘ; Polish: Wołoczyska; Yiddish: וואָלאָטשיסק) is a small city located on the left bank of the Zbruch River in Khmelnytskyi Raion, Khmelnytskyi Oblast (province) of western Ukraine.

[4] The town situated on the trade road from the East to the West in Halytsko-Volyn Principality time and in the following centuries.

[4] Slavic tribes of volyniany used to live on the territory of contemporary Volochysk in ancient times.

This region belonged to Kyivan Rus' in the ninth and tenth centuries, later to Halytsko-Volyn Principality.

Volochysk area was ravaged in 1241 by Mongol-tatar tribes, which were coming to conquer Halych after they had seized Kyiv.

Volochysk region as a part of Halytsko-Volyn Princedom was conquered by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the second quarter of the 14th century.

Volochysk is first mentioned as “Volochyshche” in Podil statement of Zbarazh princes dated 9 July 1463.

The welfare of Volochysk (which was then known in Polish as Woloczysk) grew after its people started trading with other towns of the area.

After the Wisniowiecki family died out, their relative, governor of Kijów Voivodship (Kyiv), Jozef Potocki inherited Volochysk in 1695.

Potocki sold Volochysk together with all his estates to the Polish crown marshal Fryderyk Jozef Moszynski for 1700 thousand zlotys in 1772.

Moszynski was one of the richest Polish landlords, who owned 4,510,000 acres (1,825,132 ha) of land, 30,682 serfs, many shops and factories.

It was the first railroad joining current Western and Eastern Ukraine, and a key transit point for grain export from Galicia to the port city of Odessa.

They represented different powers: Russian Bolsheviks, the Polish army of Józef Piłsudski, Ukrainian Central Council (Tsentralna Rada), “Dyrektoriya”, and Petliura.

The process of “collectivization” (when individual land and labour were consolidated into collective farms by force) was one of the fastest in the region.

[6] All together during the period of the Second World War, there were 9297 people killed in the town and 3982 were taken to Germany for forced labour.

As of today the core production in the region consists of portable electric power stations, bricks, metal items, capacitors, canned food, sugar, bread and bun goods, and more than 100 of other consumer products.

Volochysk is developing with rapid strides, paying much attention to the service sector and new technologies.