The cover of our planet is changing with time around the world. Especially it relates to settlements. Mainly, towns and cities are expanding using adjacent areas or change their view because of new direction of development, sometimes some settlements disappeared at all. Development of GIS-technologies and application of remote sensing data allows to implement the analysis of current changes and study information from archival sources. The aim of the work is to study the changes in landscapes, boundaries of the city development and forest cover of the territories adjacent to the small city of Khyriv, using GIS-technologies and archival cartographic data. Using the Mapinfo software environment, the changes in the city of Khyriv for different time periods, using cartographic materials for 1942 and 1970 were analyzed. As a result of research, we can observe that in the period from 1942 to 1970, the changes in the city of Khiriv are quite significant. There are many cases of changes of land purpose. Thus, large areas previously used for agricultural production are being withdrawn from circulation, the structure of arable land use and forest cover is also changing, the city has been rebuilt, small residential houses were changed on multistory apartment buildings, and changes in hydrographic objects are being observed. Especially it is interesting changes in Stryvigor riverbed and could be the theme for farther studies. These changes are explained by the gradual increase in the urban population (according to statistics, as of 1921 - 2654, and as of 1970 - 3500 inhabitants), and the industrialization of the region (during the study period, MTS was created, plants "Equator" and "Meridian". Until 2003, a large military unit was stationed in the city.
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