Dorohusk (; ) is a village in

Chełm County Chełm County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Lublin Voivodeship, eastern Poland, on the border with Ukraine. It was established on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms pas ...

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, in southeastern

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, at the border with

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. It is the seat of Gmina Dorohusk (administrative district). It lies approximately east of

Chełm Chełm (; ; ) is a city in eastern Poland in the Lublin Voivodeship with 60,231 inhabitants as of December 2021. It is located to the south-east of Lublin, north of Zamość and south of Biała Podlaska, some from the border with Ukraine. The ...

and east of the regional capital

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. The landmark of Dorohusk is the Suchodolski Palace, a

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palace built by the Suchodolski family in the 18th century.

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