Horodyschtsche

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Horodyschtsche (disambiguation) .

Horodyschtsche
Городище
	Horodyschtsche
Basic data
Oblast :	Cherkasy Oblast
Rajon :	Horodyschtsche Raion
Height :	94 m
Area :	21.69 km²
Residents :	13,609 (2019)
Population density :	627 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes :	19507
Area code :	[phone]
Geographic location :	49 ° 16 ′  N , 31 ° 26 ′  E Coordinates: 49 ° 16 ′ 0 ″  N , 31 ° 26 ′ 0 ″  E
KOATUU :	7120350100
Administrative structure :	1 city, 1 village
Address:	вул. Грушевського 11 19500 м. Городище
Website :	http://gormrada.gov.ua/
Statistical information
Horodyschtsche

Horodyschtsche ( Ukrainian Городище ; Russian Городище Gorodishche ) is a city with 13,600 inhabitants (as of 2019) in the center of Ukraine .

The Mikhail Church in Horodyschtsche

The city is located in Cherkassy Oblast on the bank of the Vilschanka , a 106 km long right tributary of the Dnieper and is the administrative seat of Horodyschtsche Raion . The village of Nabokiw ( Набоків ) also belongs to the municipality .

Taras Shevchenko monument in the city

The writer Petro Hulak-Artemowskyj was born in Horodyschtsche in 1790 and his nephew, the opera composer and singer Semen Hulak-Artemowskyj, was born in 1813 . In his honor a museum was founded in the village.

sons and daughters of the town

• Petro Hulak-Artemowskyj (1790–1865), Ukrainian writer, translator and rector of the University of Kharkov
• Semen Hulak-Artemowskyj (1813–1873), Ukrainian opera singer (baritone) and composer, actor and playwright.

Web links

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

• Entry on the place in the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine (Ukrainian)
• City information (Ukrainian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cities & Towns of Ukraine on pop-stat.mashke.org ; accessed on January 27, 2020