Khyriv

Khyriv is a town in Sambir Raion, Lviv Oblast of Ukraine with a population of around 4,152 It hosts the administration of Khyriv urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.

It became known principally for the celebrated eponymous Jesuit secondary boys school founded there in 1886. The institution, which produced 6,000 alumni during its existence, ceased all activity when the then Polish town fell to Soviet forces in 1939.Khyriv was first mentioned in documents from 1374. At that time it was the private property of the noble Polish family of Herburt and was part of Poland's Ruthenian Voivodeship.