Title: Sokyriany City Title: District Administrative Center Sokyriany Location: Located on the banks of the river Sokyrianka (right tributary of the Dnister River), 138 km east of Chernivtsi. Population: 9600 thousand people Area: 3 sq. km. km. Waterways: River Sokyrianka Founded: 1666 Background: The first mention of the settlement dates back to 1666 year, as its name covered with legends about - people who are fleeing from the Turkish yoke, came to the Dnister forest. Detractors began to clear undergrowth and put vsrub home. Did it with an ax. Sound of an ax was heard far away, and those who heard it, said: "This settlement sokyryntsi build." Prior to World Sekuriany had the status of parish center Khotyn County. Today in the town two Orthodox churches, but there was not a Jewish synagogue, almost all the local Jews were exterminated by the Nazis in 1941. There are no antiquities in the city anymore. But here is worth visiting in order to look at the life of an ordinary Bessarabian town.