Baturyn

Baturyn

Батурин

Baturyn

Basic data

Oblast :

Chernihiv Oblast

Rajon :

Bachmatsch district

Height :

145 m

Area :

700.00 km²

Residents :

2,516 (2018)

Population density :

4 inhabitants per km²

Postcodes :

16512-16513

Area code :

+380 4635

Geographic location :

51 ° 20 ′ N , 32 ° 52 ′ E Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 0 ″ N , 32 ° 52 ′ 0 ″ E

KOATUU :

7420355300

Administrative structure :

1 city , 10 villages, 5 settlements

Address:

вул. В. Ющенка буд. 30
16512 м. Батурин

Website :

https://baturyn-rada.gov.ua/

Statistical information

Baturyn

Baturyn ( Ukrainian Батурин ; Russian Батурин Baturin ) is a city in the east of the northern Ukrainian Oblast Chernihiv with about 2500 inhabitants (2018) and the administrative center of the Baturyn Territorial Community.

Geographical location

The city is located in the north of the Bachmatsch district at an altitude of 145 m on the left bank of the Seim River, 24 km north of the Bachmatsch district center and about 130 km east of the Chernihiv oblast center .

In Baturyn, the regional road P-61 meets the trunk road M 02 / E 101 .

history

Baturyn fortress

Reconstructed wooden church

Rosumovsky Palace in Baturyn

The monument to Prayer for Ukraine in Baturyn

The city is said to have arisen from a fortification that the Grand Duke of Chernihiv had built there. Baturyn is first mentioned by name in documents from 1625, when the Polish nobility built a fortress here after the conquest of Chernigov - Severien . After the defection of the Cossacks from Poland-Lithuania in 1648, Baturyn became a regional center of a Cossack unit (sotnja). Between 1669 and 1708, Baturyn was the capital of the Hetmanate , an autonomous Cossack republic that was connected to the Russian Empire .

Under the rule of the ataman Iwan Masepa , the place quickly grew to 20,000 people. At that time, Baturyn had 40 churches and chapels, two monasteries and a college for civil servants and diplomats. In the course of the Great Northern War , in which the hetmanate under Masepa's leadership against the Russians with Sweden under Charles XII. connected, the city was destroyed to the ground by the Russian army under Alexander Menshikov . About 6000 residents and defenders are said to have lost their lives.

The place was only rebuilt in the 1750s and was once again the capital of a hetmanate under the hetman Kyrylo Rosumowskyj until the Russian Empress Catherine the Great dissolved the Cossack state in 1764.

Taras Shevchenko visited Baturyn in 1843 and then described in his work the destruction of the city by Menshikov's troops. After the death of Rosumowskyj, the village lost its importance, so that today it is a small town whose inhabitants live mainly from agriculture. In 2008 the urban-type settlement was given city status. In 2009 the Baroque palace of Rosumovsky was renovated and the sculpture group Prayer for Ukraine was built.

Pokrowska Church

Classicist Church of the Resurrection with Razumovsky's grave

local community

Since December 2016, Baturyn has been the administrative center of the Baturyn municipality with an area of 205.69 km². The municipality has a total of 4155 inhabitants, of which 2552 are in the city of Baturyn and 1603 live in the villages of the municipality.

In addition to the city, the municipality also includes 10 villages

Matijiwka ( Матіївка , ⊙ ) with about 330 inhabitants
Obirky ( Обірки , ⊙ ) with about 5 inhabitants
Mosty ( Мости , ⊙ ) with about 50 inhabitants
Lissowa Polyana ( Лісова Поляна , ⊙ ) with 3 inhabitants
Vesseliwka ( Веселівка , ⊙ ) with about 15 inhabitants
Bondari ( Бондарі , ⊙ ) with about 5 inhabitants
Nowe Polissja ( Нове Полісся , ⊙ ) with about 20 inhabitants
Horodyschtsche ( Городище , ⊙ ) with about 820 inhabitants
Tschasnykivka ( Часниківка , ⊙ ) with about 260 inhabitants
Schumyn ( Шумин , ⊙ ) with about 40 inhabitants

as well as the 5 settlements

Holubiw ( Голубів , ⊙ ) with 2 inhabitants
Kaziry ( Каціри , ⊙ ) with about 5 inhabitants
Lopatyn ( Лопатин , ⊙ ) with about 10 inhabitants
Prochory ( Прохори , ⊙ ) with 2 inhabitants
Shumeykyne ( Шумейкине , ⊙ ) about 1 inhabitant

Web links

Commons : Baturyn - collection of images, videos and audio files

Article Baturyn in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine (English)
"Baturyn: historic capital of the Kozak Hetman state." The Ukrainian Weekly (English) ( Memento of 27 September 2007 at the Internet Archive )
City Council website on rada.info (Ukrainian)

Individual evidence

↑ Cities and Towns of Ukraine on pop-stat.mashke; accessed on July 14, 2019
↑ Baturyn on geonames.org ; accessed on July 15, 2019
^ Local history of Baturyn in the history of the cities and villages of the Ukrainian SSR ; accessed on June 15, 2019 (Ukrainian)
↑ 8 inspired places that Taras Shevchenko visited and described on ru.tsn.ua ; accessed on July 15, 2019 (Russian)
↑ Baturyn City United Territorial Community on decentralization.gov.ua ; accessed on July 15, 2019 (Ukrainian)
^ Structure of the community on the city's official website; accessed on July 15, 2019 (Ukrainian)
^ Regional community of the city of Baturyn (united) of the Bachmatsch district ; accessed on July 15, 2019 (Ukrainian)

[1] Cities and Towns of Ukraine on pop-stat.mashke; accessed on July 14, 2019

[2] Baturyn on geonames.org ; accessed on July 15, 2019

[3] Local history of Baturyn in the history of the cities and villages of the Ukrainian SSR ; accessed on June 15, 2019 (Ukrainian)

[4] 8 inspired places that Taras Shevchenko visited and described on ru.tsn.ua ; accessed on July 15, 2019 (Russian)

[5] Baturyn City United Territorial Community on decentralization.gov.ua ; accessed on July 15, 2019 (Ukrainian)

[6] Structure of the community on the city's official website; accessed on July 15, 2019 (Ukrainian)

[7] Regional community of the city of Baturyn (united) of the Bachmatsch district ; accessed on July 15, 2019 (Ukrainian)