Tschyhyryn

Tschyhyryn

Игирин

Tschyhyryn

Basic data

Oblast :

Cherkasy Oblast

Rajon :

Chyhyryn district

Height :

110 m

Area :

14.0 km²

Residents :

11,906 (2004)

Population density :

850 inhabitants per km²

Postcodes :

20900-20906

Area code :

+380 4730

Geographic location :

49 ° 4 ′ N , 32 ° 40 ′ E Coordinates: 49 ° 4 ′ 0 ″ N , 32 ° 40 ′ 0 ″ E

KOATUU :

7125450100

Administrative structure :

1 city , 1 settlement

Address:

вул. Б.Хмельницького 33
20 900 м. Игирин

Statistical information

Tschyhyryn

Chihirin ( Ukrainian Чигирин ; Russian Чигирин Chigirin , polish Czehryń ) is a town in the Ukrainian oblast Cherkassy on the banks of the river Tiasmyn River , which is below the city in the kremenchuk reservoir pent Dnepr opens. In the area subject to the city administration there is next to the city the Tschernetsche settlement ( Чернече ) with around 200 inhabitants.

history

View of Chyhyryn

View of the Bohdan Khmelnytsky Museum in Chyhyryn

The city of Chyhyryn has its origins in a fortified wintering station of the Cossacks , which existed here from the first half of the 16th century. In the following decades, the settlement developed into a small town that received Magdeburg town charter in 1592 . In 1627 the Trinity Monastery was built near the city, but it was closed and destroyed during the Soviet era .

Between 1648 and 1660, Tschyhyryn was able to achieve national significance for a short time when it was a kind of seat of government of the Ukrainian Cossack state under the Cossack leader Bohdan Khmelnyzkyj . He had his estate near the town in Subotiv . From 1648 Tschyhyryn had its own Cossack group, which in 1649 consisted of 19 Sotniken. In October 1653, the eldest son of Bohdan Khmelnytskyi Tymofij Khmelnytskyi , who died during the siege of Suceava , was buried in Tschyhyryn.

At this time, some important buildings were built, such as Chmelnyzkis government building (1659–57), a town hall and a Christ the Savior Church. However, none of these have survived to this day. Among the ambassadors who came to Tschyhyryn at this time was an ambassador from the Brandenburg Elector Friedrich-Wilhelm , who visited Bohdan Khmelnyzki in 1657 to offer him a friendship treaty. After the death of the Cossack leader in 1657, the city quickly lost its importance. In 1669 the seat of government was moved to Baturyn and in 1677 the city was sacked by Turkish troops . In 1711 the Cossack Polk was dissolved and the territory returned to Polish jurisdiction. The majority of the Cossacks and residents moved to the nearby semi-autonomous Cossack state on the left bank of the Dnieper.

With the second partition of Poland , Tschyhyryn came to the Russian Empire in 1793 and was a district town in the Kiev governorate from 1797 . In 1843 and 1845 the Ukrainian writer Taras Shevchenko visited the village. He wrote some poems about the reign of Khmelnytsky and the place.

In 1897 there were 9,872 people in Tschyhyryn, with Ukrainians making up the largest population group with 66.6%, followed by Jews (29.6%) and Russians (3.5%). After Tschyhyryn had lost its status as a city in the meantime in the 20th century, it was raised to a city again in 1954.

In nearby Subotiv there is a museum and one of the few surviving village churches in this area, which was built in the Ukrainian baroque style.

Economy and Transport

Since Chyhyryn was not connected to the railway network, no major industry could develop. The focus is on food, clothing and furniture production. The city is located on the P-15 regional road that connects Cherkassy with Kremenchuk .

In the 1980s, a coal-fired power plant was to be built near Tschyhyryn, but this was canceled and the site was prepared for a 4,000 MW nuclear power plant . After the Chernobyl nuclear disaster , protests against the nuclear power plant by local residents became so great that the project was abandoned in 1989, but Chyhyryn is still considered a possible location for new nuclear power plants in Ukraine.

Personalities

Birthplace of the Cossack leader Taras Fedorowytsch (? –1639)
Place of activity and death of the Cossack leader Bohdan Khmelnyzkyj (1595–1657)
Place of activity and death of clergyman Jossyf Tukalskyj-Neljubowytsch (? –1675)
Place of birth and activity of the Cossack leader Petro Doroshenko (1627–1698)
Birthplace of the Slavist and educator Serhij Hruschewskyj (1830–1901)
Birthplace of the biophysicist Boris Rajewsky (1893–1974)
Birthplace of the Ukrainian-Soviet mathematician and cyberneticist Kateryna Yushchenko (1919–2001)
Birthplace of the mathematician and engineering scientist Volodymyr Rwachev (1926-2005)

Individual evidence

^ Charles K. Dodd: Industrial decision-making and high-risk technology: siting nuclear power facilities in the USSR . In: G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series. Rowman & Littlefield, 1994. ISBN 0847678474 . Page 159.

^ World Nuclear Association: Nuclear Power in Ukraine . August 2011. Retrieved September 27, 2011.

Web links

Commons : Tschyhyryn - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

[1] Charles K. Dodd: Industrial decision-making and high-risk technology: siting nuclear power facilities in the USSR . In: G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series. Rowman & Littlefield, 1994. ISBN 0847678474 . Page 159.