Zhashkiv (Ukrainian: Жашків, IPA: [ˈʒɑʃkiu̯] ⓘ) is a city in Uman Raion, Cherkasy Oblast (province) of Ukraine.

[5][6] The first mention of Zhashkiv was found in documents of the beginning of the 17th century, the town was officially mentioned on October 16 (according to the old style) in 1636 - a report that at the confluence of the Kozina Rudka river with the Rava Zhashkivska river, above the Skybyn Dam, a settlement was laid.

The name "Zhashkiv" is also found on Guillaume Lavasseur De Beauplan's map.

Since 1796, Zhashkiv belongs to the Poles - Hryhoriy Zakrevskiy,[7] two years later - Jan Tarnowiecki.

After the death of Tarnovetskyi's son Jan in 1852, Zhashkiv was divided into two parts between the sisters Solomiya Rakovskaya and Palageya Charkovskaya.

The second occupation of communist Moscow, under which Zhashkiv fell in March 1919, caused an active insurgent movement there, directed against it.

On December 1, 1991, the residents of the city voted by an absolute majority for the restoration of Ukraine's state independence and withdrawal from the USSR.