Nischyn

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Nischyn
Ніжин
Coat of arms of Nischyn
Nizhyn (Ukraine)
Nischyn
Nischyn
Basic data
Oblast : Chernihiv Oblast
Rajon : District-free city
Height : no information
Area : 43 km²
Residents : 75,469 (January 1, 2006)
Population density : 1,755 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes : 16600
Area code : +380 231
Geographic location : 51 ° 3 '  N , 31 ° 53'  E Coordinates: 51 ° 3 '0 "  N , 31 ° 53' 0"  E
KOATUU : 7410400000
Administrative structure : 1 city
Address: пл. Леніна 1
16600 м. Ніжин
Website : http://nizhyn.osp-ua.info/index.php
Statistical information
Nizhyn (Chernihiv Oblast)
Nischyn
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Nischyn ( Ukrainian Ніжин ; Russian Нежин Neschin , Polish Nieżyn ) is a city in Chernihiv Oblast of Ukraine and the center of the Nischyn Rajon of the same name (but administratively not part of the same). The city lies on the banks of the Oster River .

history

The area with the name Neschatinna Niwa (= unharvested field ) was mentioned as early as 1078. The city was first mentioned under the name Unenesch in 1147 in the Hypatius Chronicle . After being destroyed in the Mongol storm in 1239 , it recovered only slowly.

In the middle of the 14th century the place came under Lithuanian rule. The city was first mentioned under its current name in 1514 when a Cossack regiment was organized here . In the 17th and 18th centuries, thanks to its location on important trade routes, the place was able to develop into an important manufacture and trade center. In 1618 Nischyn fell to Poland through the Treaty of Deulino , and in 1625 the town received Magdeburg city rights .

Under the Cossack rule, the place became the seat of a Cossack pulk in 1648 . At this time a Greek trading colony was established in the city, which Bohdan Khmelnyzkyj received special privileges. In 1663 Ivan Brichowezky was elected ataman in Nischyn .

St. John the Apostle Church

In 1667 Nischyn came to Tsarist Russia through the Treaty of Andrussowo , but the Cossack bunch continued to exist and was only dissolved in 1782 as part of an army reform. In 1696 the Greeks opened their own school, in 1785 the Greek community received its own administration. At this time, however, the place was already losing its importance as a trading point, as in the course of the conquest of southern Ukraine by the Russian Empire, the trade routes shifted south to the Black Sea. As a result, the Greek traders left the city for Odessa , Mariupol and Taganrog .

From 1802 Nischyn was a district town in the Chernigov governorate . In the 19th century the cultural importance of the city grew, to which in particular the Nischyn Gymnasium, founded in 1820 (from 1832: Lyceum, today: Pedagogical Institute), at which, among others, Oleksandr Afanassjew-Tschuschbynskyj , Antoni Andrzejowski , Pawel Axelrod , Friedrich Gelbcke , Nikolai contributed Gogol , Leonid Hlibow , Jewhen Hrebinka , Nestor Kukolnik , Wassyl Lyaskoronskyj , Apollon Mokrizki , Kapiton Pawlow , Petro Redkin , Nikolai Rennenkampff , Wiktor Sabila , Iwan Soshenko , Fyodor Stravinsky , Wassyl Tarnowskyj sen. , Mychajlo Tschalyj and Fedir Wowk studied or taught.

In 1868 a railway station was opened in Nischyn. Since the dissolution of the USSR in 1991, Nizhyn has belonged to Ukraine.

Population development

Development of the population (on January 1st)

  • 2004 - 76,056
  • 2005 - 75,648
  • 2006 - 75,469

economy

The city is famous for its food specialties, such as marinated cucumbers and tomatoes, most of which are exported.

sons and daughters of the town

Web links

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