 The nearest villages of today are Yaromel (Яромель) and Klubochyn (Клубочин).The original settlement inhabited entirely by Jews, was named after Sophie, a Württemberg princess (1759–1828) married to the Tsar of Russia Paul I (hence "Sofievka" or "Zofjówka").She donated a parcel of land for the Jewish settlement in the Russian Partition after the conquest of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth ("see" new Pale of Settlement district).