 The name Trochenbrod in Yiddish stands for "Dry Bread" or "Bread without Butter" ().Towards the end of World War I, Trochymbrid briefly became a part of the Western Ukrainian National Republic and subsequently he Ukrainian National Peoples Republic after unification on January 22, 1919.However, during the Polish–Soviet War, the forces of the re-emerging sovereign Poland and the Red Army fought over the town.