The town was annexed by Russia after the 1793 Second Partition of Poland . After the restoration of Polish independence , Mohyliv was briefly captured by the Poles under the command of General Franciszek Krajowski in 1919 , but it ultimately fell to the Soviet Union . In 1937 , during the Polish Operation of the NKVD , the Soviets destroyed the Polish Church of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Polish Operation of the NKVD
Polish Operation of the NKVD
Mohyliv-Podilskyi