Zdolbuniv is a small city

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 in the Rivne Oblast

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 (province

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) of western Ukraine

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. It is the administrative center

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 of the Zdolbuniv Raion

Zdolbuniv Raion

Zdolbuniv Raion is a raion in Rivne Oblast in western Ukraine. Its administrative center is Zdolbuniv. It has a population of .-External links:*...

 (district

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), and has an important railway station and cement plant (there is a deposit of chalk).

The current estimated population is around 24,600 (as of 2005).

History

The town was mentioned in 1497 in the deed, in which the Lithuania

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n Grand Duke Alexander Jagiellon

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 committed several villages to the Prince Konstanty Ostrogski

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. Among the villages mentioned in the deed was Dolbunov. The town has had its present name of Zdolbuniv since 1629.