Vilkhovets (Zvenyhorodka)
| Vilkhovets (Zvenyhorodka) | |||
| Вільховець | |||
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| Oblast : | Cherkasy Oblast | ||
| Rajon : | Svenyhorodka district | ||
| Height : | 190 m | ||
| Area : | Information is missing | ||
| Residents : | 3,048 (2001) | ||
| Postcodes : | 20260 | ||
| Area code : | +380 4740 | ||
| Geographic location : | 49 ° 2 ' N , 30 ° 54' E | ||
| KOATUU : | 7121285201 | ||
| Administrative structure : | 1 village | ||
| Address: | 20260 с. Вільховець | ||
| Website : | City council website | ||
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Vilkhovets ( Ukrainian Вільховець ; Russian Ольховец Olchowez ) is a village in the center of the Ukrainian Cherkassy Oblast with about 3000 inhabitants (2001).
Museum and monument of Vyacheslav Chornovil in the village
The village, first mentioned in writing in 1633, is the only place in the district council of the same name in the southwest of Zvenyhorodka Rajon .
The village is located on the N 16 trunk road and on the banks of the Popivka ( Попівка ), a 26 km long tributary of the Hnylyj Tikytsch 10 km southwest of the district center Zvenyhorodka and about 115 km southwest of the Cherkasy oblast center .
There is a museum and a monument in memory of Vyacheslav Chornovil .
Personalities
- On March 16, 1664, the hetman of the Ukrainian Cossacks and voivode Ivan Wyhowskyj (1608-1664) was executed in the village.
- The German athlete Rudolf Harbig (1913–1944) died here in a combat mission as a paratrooper in March 1944.
Web links
Commons : Wilchowez - collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ Local website on the official website of the Verkhovna Rada ; accessed on October 6, 2017 (Ukrainian)
- ↑ history Wilchowez in the history of the towns and villages of the Ukrainian SSR ; accessed on October 6, 2017 (Ukrainian)
- ^ The museum of Vyacheslav Chornovil in Wilchowez on igotoworld.com ; accessed on October 6, 2017 (Ukrainian)
- ^ Entry on Iwan Wyhowskyj in the Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine ; accessed on October 6, 2017 (Ukrainian)