Hadiach ( uk, Га́дяч, Hadyach, ; russian: Гáдяч, Gadyach, pl, Hadziacz), sometimes spelled Hadyach, Gadyach, Gadiach, Haditch, or Hadziacz, is a city of regional significance in

Poltava Oblast Poltava Oblast ( uk, Полта́вська о́бласть, translit=Poltavska oblast; also referred to as Poltavshchyna – uk, Полта́вщина, literally 'Poltava Country') is an oblast (province) of central Ukraine. The administrative ...

(

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) in the central-east part of

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. Located on the

Psel River The Psel (, translit. ''Psyol''; , translit. ''Psel, Ps'ol, Pslo'') is a river, a left tributary of the Dnieper, which flows through Russia and Ukraine. The Psel has a length of and a drainage basin of .Myrhorod Raion Myrhorod Raion ( uk, Миргородський район; translit.: ''Myrhorods'kyi raion'') is a raion (district) in Poltava Oblast of central Ukraine. The raion's administrative center is the city of Myrhorod. Population: On 18 July 2020, ...

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), though administratively it does not belong to the raion. Population:

Overview

Hadiach was granted city rights in 1634. It was a city of

Kyiv Voivodeship The Kiev Voivodeship ( pl, województwo kijowskie, la, Palatinatus Kioviensis, uk, Київське воєводство, ''Kyjivśke vojevodstvo'') was a unit of administrative division and local government in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania ...

Cossack Hetmanate The Cossack Hetmanate ( uk, Гетьманщина, Hetmanshchyna; or ''Cossack state''), officially the Zaporizhian Host or Army of Zaporizhia ( uk, Військо Запорозьке, Viisko Zaporozke, links=no; la, Exercitus Zaporoviensis) ...

, and

Poltava Governorate The Poltava Governorate (russian: Полтавская губерния, Poltavskaya guberniya; ua, Полтавська Губернія, translit=Poltavska huberniia) or Poltavshchyna was a gubernia (also called a province or government) in t ...

. At times of

, Hadiach was a residence of Ukrainian Hetman

Ivan Briukhovetsky Ivan Briukhovetsky ( uk, Іван Брюховецький, links=no, pl, Iwan Brzuchowiecki, links=no, russian: Иван Брюховецкий, links=no) (died 18 June 1668) was a hetman of Left-bank Ukraine from 1663 to 1668. In the early year ...

, election of which saw division of the Hetmanate along the

Dnieper } The Dnieper () or Dnipro (); , ; . is one of the major transboundary rivers of Europe, rising in the Valdai Hills near Smolensk, Russia, before flowing through Belarus and Ukraine to the Black Sea. It is the longest river of Ukraine and ...

river (see

The Ruin (Ukrainian history) The Ruin ( uk, Руїна, translit=Ruyína) is a historical term introduced by the Cossack chronicle writer Samiilo Velychko (1670–1728) for the political situation in Ukrainian history during the second half of the 17th century. The time ...

). Hadiach is one of the main points of interest to Hasidic

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visiting Ukraine due to the old cemetery that is on the river running through the city, where

Shneur Zalman of Liadi Shneur Zalman of Liadi ( he, שניאור זלמן מליאדי, September 4, 1745 – December 15, 1812 O.S. / 18 Elul 5505 – 24 Tevet 5573) was an influential Lithuanian Jewish rabbi and the founder and first Rebbe of Chabad, a branch of ...

is buried. Until 2020 was a administrative center of Hadyach Raion.

Climate

In literature

The main characters in Nikolai Gogol's story ''

Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka and His Aunt "Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka and His Aunt" (Иван Фёдорович Шпонька и его тётушка, ''Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka i yevo tyotushka''; 1832) is part of the collection ''Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka'' by Nikolai Gogol. Ori ...

'' are from Hadiach (Gadyach in the 1957 translation by

David Magarshack David Magarshack (23 December 1899 – 26 October 1977) was a British translator and biographer of Russian authors, best remembered for his translations of Dostoevsky and Nikolai Gogol. Biography Magarshack was born in Riga, in present-day ...

Residents

Mykhailo Drahomanov Mykhailo Petrovych Drahomanov ( ukr, Михайло Петрович Драгоманов; 18 September 1841 – 2 July 1895) was a Ukrainian intellectual and public figure. As an academic, Drahomanov was an economist, historian, philosopher, and ...

(1841-1895),

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historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the st ...

, philosopher, and

ethnographer Ethnography (from Greek ''ethnos'' "folk, people, nation" and ''grapho'' "I write") is a branch of anthropology and the systematic study of individual cultures. Ethnography explores cultural phenomena from the point of view of the subject o ...

Olena Pchilka Olha Petrivna Kosach (29 June 1849 – 4 October 1930), better known by her pen name Olena Pchilka ( uk, Олена Пчілка), was a Ukrainian publisher, writer, ethnographer, interpreter, and civil activist. She was the sister of Mykhailo ...

, mother of

Lesya Ukrayinka Lesya Ukrainka ( uk, Леся Українка ; born Larysa Petrivna Kosach, uk, Лариса Петрівна Косач; – ) was one of Ukrainian literature's foremost writers, best known for her poems and plays. She was also an active ...

and a sister of Drahomanov

Gallery

File:Billboard Hadiach Welcomes You (near the Psel river).JPG, The city of Cossack Pride Hadiach welcomes you File:Psel river (in Hadiach).JPG, River Psel under a bridge in Hadiach File:The Ohel of Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi.jpg, Entrance to the 'Ohel' of

where he is buried in Hadiach File:Свято-Успенський собор (м. Гадяч).JPG, Dormition Cathedral and belfry in Hadiach (

Ukrainian Orthodox Church The history of Christianity in Ukraine dates back to the earliest centuries of the history of Christianity, to the Apostolic Age, with mission trips along the Black Sea and a legend of Saint Andrew even ascending the hills of Kyiv. The first Chr ...

) File:Druzhba Concert Hall 2.JPG, City concert hall

References

External links

Unofficial site of Gadyach

in the

Encyclopedia of Ukraine The ''Encyclopedia of Ukraine'' ( uk, Енциклопедія українознавства, translit=Entsyklopediia ukrainoznavstva), published from 1984 to 2001, is a fundamental work of Ukrainian Studies. Development The work was creat ...

"Gadyach"
(news of Gadyach, events, weather, history. All in English, Ukrainian and Russian language)
"Gadyach Zemstvo Stamps"
- The gallery of local postage stamps of the Gadyach

Zemstvo A ''zemstvo'' ( rus, земство, p=ˈzʲɛmstvə, plural ''zemstva'' – rus, земства) was an institution of local government set up during the great emancipation reform of 1861 carried out in Imperial Russia by Emperor Alexande ...

Post Office. Cities in Poltava Oblast Cities of district significance in Ukraine Gadyachsky Uyezd Kiev Voivodeship Shneur Zalman of Liadi Populated places established in 1643 1643 establishments in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Cossack Hetmanate {{Poltava-geo-stub