Prokhorivka (Kaniw)
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| Прохорівка | |||
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| Oblast : | Cherkasy Oblast | ||
| Rajon : | Kaniv Raion | ||
| Height : | 83 m | ||
| Area : | Information is missing | ||
| Residents : | 405 (2001) | ||
| Postcodes : | 19023 | ||
| Area code : | +380 4736 | ||
| Geographic location : | 49 ° 43 ' N , 31 ° 37' E | ||
| KOATUU : | 7122087001 | ||
| Administrative structure : | 2 villages | ||
| Address: | 19023 с. Прохорівка | ||
| Website : | City council website | ||
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Prokhorivka ( Ukrainian Прохорівка ; Russian Прохоровка Prokhorovka ) is a village in the Ukrainian Oblast of Cherkassy with about 400 inhabitants (2001).
The village, first mentioned in writing in 1622, is the administrative center of the district council of the same name in Kaniw Rajon , to which the village of Suschky ( Сушки , ⊙ ) with about 700 inhabitants also belongs.
The village is located on the left bank of the Dnieper , 19 km by road southeast of the district center of Kaniv and 75 km northwest of the center of Cherkasy Oblast . The T-24-04 territorial road runs through the village .
The university rector, writer and scientist Mychajlo Maxymovytsch lived in the area of the village Prokhorivka in the now abandoned hamlet of Mychajlowa Hora ( Михайлова Гора ). He received his friend Taras Shevchenko here in 1859 , who painted portraits of him and his wife Maria and was then denounced, arrested and finally expelled from Ukraine.
Sons and daughters of the village
- Dmitri Petrovich Newerowski ( Дмитрий Петрович Неверовский ; 1771–1813), Russian lieutenant general
- Wassili Stepanowitsch Sawoiko (1812–1898), Russian admiral
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Local website on the official website of the Verkhovna Rada ; accessed on August 20, 2018 (Ukrainian)
- ↑ a b history Prochoriwka in the history of the towns and villages of the Ukrainian SSR ; accessed on 2018 (ukrainian)