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Chyhyryn (; ; , ) is a city located in Cherkasy Oblast
Cherkasy Oblast

Cherkasy Oblast is an administrative divisions of Ukraine of central Ukraine located along the Dnieper River. The Capital city of the oblast is the city of Cherkasy)....
 of central Ukraine
Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south....
. The city rests on the banks of Tyasmyn River, and is the administrative center of the Chyhyrynskyi Raion. It is located at around . The current estimated population is 12,900.

History
The area (1320-1569) had been part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Grand Duchy of Lithuania

The Grand Duchy of Lithuania was an Eastern and Central European state from the 12th /13th century until the 18th century. It was founded by Lithuanians, at the time one of the Lithuanian mythology Baltic tribes, whose initial lands covered Auk?taitija, the eastern part of present day Lithuania....
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Chyhyryn (; ; , ) is a city located in Cherkasy Oblast
Cherkasy Oblast

Cherkasy Oblast is an administrative divisions of Ukraine of central Ukraine located along the Dnieper River. The Capital city of the oblast is the city of Cherkasy)....
 of central Ukraine
Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south....
. The city rests on the banks of Tyasmyn River, and is the administrative center of the Chyhyrynskyi Raion. It is located at around . The current estimated population is 12,900.

Environment


The city lies at the altitude of 124 metres above mean sea level
Above mean sea level

The term above mean sea level refers to the elevation or altitude of any object, relative to the average sea level datum . AMSL is used extensively in radio by engineers to determine the coverage area a station will be able to reach....
. Minor industry, such as food and furniture factories, exist in the town today. The area code is +380 4730.

History


The area (1320-1569) had been part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Grand Duchy of Lithuania

The Grand Duchy of Lithuania was an Eastern and Central European state from the 12th /13th century until the 18th century. It was founded by Lithuanians, at the time one of the Lithuanian mythology Baltic tribes, whose initial lands covered Auk?taitija, the eastern part of present day Lithuania....
. It was ceded to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

The Polish?Lithuanian Commonwealth was one of the largest and most populous countries in 16th and 17th-century Europe, formed by a Union of Lublin of Kingdom of Poland and Grand Duchy of Lithuania in 1569....
 (in the Kijów Voivodeship
Kijów Voivodeship

The Kiev Voivodeship was a unit of administrative division and local government in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from 1471 until 1569 and of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland from 1569 until 1793/1795, part of Lesser Poland....
 of the Crown of Poland) since before the Union of Lublin
Union of Lublin

The Union of Lublin replaced the personal union of the Crown of the Polish Kingdom and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania with a real union and an elective monarchy, since Sigismund II Augustus, the last of the Jagiellons, remained childless after three marriages....
. It was granted Magdeburg Rights
Magdeburg rights

Magdeburg Rights or Magdeburg Law were a set of German town laws regulating the degree of internal autonomy within cities and villages granted with it by a local ruler....
 in 1592 by Sigismund III Vasa
Sigismund III Vasa

Sigismund III Vasa was Grand Duke of Lithuania and List of Polish monarchs, a monarch of joined Polish?Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1587 to 1632, and Monarch of Sweden from 1592 until he was deposed in 1599....
.

Chyhyryn is first mentioned as a fortified Cossack
Cossack

The term Cossacks is applied to specific militaristic communities of various ethnicities living in the southern steppe regions of Ukraine and Russia....
 winter station. In 1638, Bohdan Khmelnytsky
Bohdan Khmelnytsky

Bohdan Zynoviy Mykhailovych Khmelnytsky was a hetman of the Zaporizhzhia Cossack Hetmanate of Ukraine. He led the Khmelnytsky Uprising against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth magnates with the goal of creating an independent Ukrainian state....
 became its starosta
Starosta

Starost is a title for an official or unofficial position of leadership that has been used in various contexts through most of Slavic people. It can be translated as 'Elder '....
 (regional leader), and in 1648 became the newly elected hetman
Hetman

Hetman was the title of the second highest military commander used in 15th to 18th century Poland, Ukraine and Grand Duchy of Lithuania, known from 1569 to 1795 as the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth....
's residence and the capital of the Cossack state, the Zaporozhian Host
Zaporozhian Host

The Zaporozhian Cossacks were Cossacks who lived in Zaporizhia , in Central Ukraine. The Zaporozhian Host grew rapidly in the 15th century by serfs fleeing the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth....
. In 1660, the capital was moved to Baturyn
Baturyn

Baturyn , is a historic urban-type settlement in the Chernihiv Oblast of northern Ukraine. It is located in the Bakhmatskyi Raion of the oblast, on the banks of the Seym River....
, and after Chyhyryn was raided by the Turks
Russo-Turkish War, 1676-1681

The Russo?Turkish War of 1676?1681, a war between the Russian Empire and Ottoman Empires, caused by the spreading Turkey aggression in the second half of the 17th century....
 in 1678 it gradually lost its significance. It remained the center of the Chyhyryn regiment until 1712, was the capital of the Cossack Hetmanate
Cossack Hetmanate

The Hetmanate or officially Viysko Zaporozke was a Cossack state in the central and north-eastern regions of Ukraine during 1649?1775. It came into existence as a result of the Khmelnytsky Uprising and the alliance of the registered Cossacks with the Cossacks of the Zaporozhian Sich and other segments of the Ukrainian populace....
 and upon incorporation into the Russian Empire
Russian Empire

File:Russian Emperor Flag.jpgFile:Romanov Flag.svgThe Russian Empire was a state that existed from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917....
 (1793) it became part of the Kiev
Kiev

Kiev, also known as Kyiv , is the Capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River....
 region.

The Trinity Monastery, built near Chyhyryn in 1627, was later destroyed by the Soviet
Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
 authorities. Other historical landmarks, such as the town hall and Khmelnytsky's palace, did not survive either and today there are only remnants of fortifications.

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