Pavlohrad, Ukraine

Pavlohrad is located in Eastern Ukraine, within Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. It serves as the administrative center of Pavlohrad Raion. The rivers of Vovcha, Hnizdka, and Kocherha flow through the city. The current population of Pavlohrad is approximately 101,430, and the area of the city is 22.9 square miles. 

Pavlohrad is one of the oldest modern settlements of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast and dates back to the 17th century where it was first documented. It was a minor trading center before the October Revolution (1917), and later became a major railway junction and center of the west Donbas, an important coal-mining and industrial region in Ukraine. 

Jews first settled in Pavlohrad in the late 18th Century and by 1803, the Jewish population numbered 167. The population continued to grow and by 1910, there were 11,647 Jewish residents. Pogroms in 1918 and 1919 caused great suffering in the Jewish community with many leaving Pavlohrad. Between November 1941 and January 1942, the majority of the remaining Jewish residents in Pavlohrad were murdered in the Holocaust.