Hoholiv

Intensive development of the town began from the beginning of the 17th century, when it was mentioned in the sources of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth under the name Chocholiw. At that time it was big free Cossack town situated on the trade roots near Kyiv.

In 1649 Hoholiv Cossack sotnia (military troop of hundred men) was formed to fight for freedom and civil liberties in Cossack army of Bohdan Khmelnytsky.

After the incorporation of the lands of Cossack Hetmanate into the Muscovy in the second half of 17th century chronicles of that period mention Cossack insurgency against czarist government of that time near the village. A lot of people were killed by troops of the Muscovite Army who oppressed the insurgents.

During the 17th to 19th centuries the town was part of the Russian Empire. Almost all citizens were registered as the imperial registry as Cossacks - that is more free than enslaved Cossack-peasants, which constituted the majority of the Ukrainian population at that time.

After dissolution of the Russian Empire, the Russian civil war in 1917-23 and creation of the Soviet Ukraine, Hoholiv lost its status as a town and became a village.

Modern people of village community preserve the memory of their forefathers Cossacks, free people by the will of God, people who made great impact to the development of the region, and gave names to most part of its towns and villages.