Khmeliv, Sumy Oblast

Khmeliv was first mentioned in the early 18th century. The village's inhabitants took part in the Russian Revolution of 1905, and the village was later occupied by the Red Army in January 1918.^[2] During the Holodomor, at least 160 residents of the village died.^[3]

During the German occupation in World War II, in 1943, the Germans operated a subcamp of the Dulag 102 prisoner-of-war camp in the village.^[4] 217 residents died during World War II.^[2]

Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Khmeliv took in refugees from other parts of Ukraine.^[5]

• Valentyn Bugrym, journalist.
• Volodymyr Fedko [uk], economist.
• Vasyl Kalynovskyi [uk], soldier.
• Petro Kharchenko [uk], writer.
• Viktor Klymenko [uk], hematologist.
• Andrii Kubakh [uk], poet and journalist.
• Klyment Kvitka, musicologist and ethnographer.
• Mykola Olefir [uk], oil and gas executive.
• Mykola Rokytianskyi [uk], Ukrainian-American professor.
• Ivan Severyn [uk], Hero of the Soviet Union.
• Petro Shkliarevych [uk], aristocrat and politician.
• Ruslan Sulymenko [uk], lieutenant of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
• Petro Vovna [uk], Hero of the Soviet Union.
• Sava Zerkal [uk], Ukrainian independence activist.