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Lubny
Lubny (, ) is a city in Poltava Oblast, central Ukraine. It serves as the administrative center of Lubny Raion. It also hosts the administration of , one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population: History Lubny is reputed to be one of the oldest cities in Ukraine, allegedly founded in 988 by knyaz (prince) Vladimir the Great (Volodymyr) of Kyiv. The first written record, however, dates from 1107. Initially, it was a small wooden fortress above the Sula River. The fortress quickly grew, and in the 15th or 16th century, it was owned by the powerful Wisniowiecki family. The town was ruled by Magdeburg rights and had a coat of arms. In 1596, Lubny was the site of the last battle of Severyn Nalyvaiko against the Poles. In the 17th century the city was one of the largest in the area. In 1638 it had 2,646 inhabitants. After Khmelnytsky Uprising, between 1648 and 1781, the town was the headquarters of the Lubny Cossack Regiment. In 1782 Lubny became an uyezd center of Kiev Vicer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lubny Urban Hromada
Lubny (, ) is a city in Poltava Oblast, central Ukraine. It serves as the Administrative centre, administrative center of Lubny Raion. It also hosts the administration of , one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population: History Lubny is reputed to be one of the oldest cities in Ukraine, allegedly founded in 988 by knyaz (prince) Vladimir I of Kiev, Vladimir the Great (Volodymyr) of Kyiv. The first written record, however, dates from 1107. Initially, it was a small wooden fortress above the Sula River. The fortress quickly grew, and in the 15th or 16th century, it was owned by the powerful Jeremi Wiśniowiecki, Wisniowiecki family. The town was ruled by Magdeburg rights and had a coat of arms. In 1596, Lubny was the site of the last battle of Severyn Nalyvaiko against the Poles. In the 17th century the city was one of the largest in the area. In 1638 it had 2,646 inhabitants. After Khmelnytsky Uprising, between 1648 and 1781, the town was the headquarters of the Lubny Regiment, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lubny Raion
Lubny Raion () is a raion (district) in Poltava Oblast in central Ukraine. The raion's administrative center is the city of Lubny. Population: On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Poltava Oblast was reduced to four, and the area of Lubny Raion was significantly expanded. The January 2020 estimate of the raion population was Administrative division Current After the reform in July 2020, the raion consisted of 7 hromadas: * Chornukhy settlement hromada with the administration in the urban-type settlement of Chornukhy, transferred from Chornukhy Raion; * Hrebinka urban hromada with the administration in the city of Hrebinka, transferred from Hrebinka Raion; * Khorol urban hromada with the administration in the city of Khorol, transferred from Khorol Raion; * Lubny urban hromada with the administration in the city of Lubny, transferred from Lubny Raion and the city of Lubny; Before 2020 Before the 2020 reform, the rai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lubny Regiment
The Lubny Regiment () was one of ten territorial-administrative subdivisions of the Cossack Hetmanate. The regiment's capital was the city of Lubny, now in Poltava Oblast of central Ukraine. Other major cities of the regiment were Pyriatyn, Hlynsk, Romny Raion, Hlynsk and Romny. The Lubny Regiment was founded in 1649, and was combined with the Myrhorod Regiment in 1658. During combination, 7 sotnias from the Myrhorod Regiment, 4 from the Kropyvna Regiment, and 2 from the Poltava Regiment were added into the Lubny Regiment. After reformation, the regiment consisted of a total of 13 sotnias, and later on in the 18th century — of 23 Sotnia, sotnias. According to documents of 1723, the regiment consisted of 2,687 land cossacks, and 3,968 horseback cossacks. In 1781, the regiment was officially abolished, and its territory was reformed into the Kiev Governorate, Kyiv and Chernihiv Governorate, Chernihiv Governorates. Notable Commander was Skarzynski, Mikhail Kazimierz Skarzhinsky. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poltava Oblast
Poltava Oblast (), also referred to as Poltavshchyna (), is an administrative divisions of Ukraine, oblast (province) of central Ukraine. The capital city, administrative center of the oblast is the city of Poltava. Most of its territory was part of the southern regions of the Cossack Hetmanate. Population: Three other important cities in the oblast are Horishni Plavni, Kremenchuk, and Lubny. History The Poltava Oblast was established on 22 September 1937 by a resolution of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union. It was based mostly on rayons (districts) that were part of Kharkiv Oblast, with some from Kyiv Oblast. The region approximately corresponds to the earlier Poltava Governorate (1802–1925). During the Nazi Germany occupation in 1941–43, most of the region belonged to Kiew Generalbezirke (general district), while the rest was part of the German military rear area. After the withdrawal of German forces, the region was reinstated almost to the same border ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeremi Wiśniowiecki
Prince Jeremi Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki, nicknamed ''Hammer on the Cossacks'' (), was a notable member of the aristocracy of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Prince of Vyshnivets, Lubny and Khorol in the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland and the father of the future King of Poland, Michael I. A notable magnate and military commander with Ruthenian and Moldavian origin, Wiśniowiecki was heir of one of the biggest fortunes of the state and rose to several notable dignities, including the position of voivode of the Ruthenian Voivodship (today Poland and Ukraine) in 1646. His conversion from Eastern Orthodoxy to Roman Catholicism caused much dissent in Ruthenian lands (part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth). Wiśniowiecki was a successful military leader as well as one of the wealthiest magnates of Poland, ruling over lands inhabited by 230,000 people. Biography Youth Jeremi Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki was born in 1612; neither the exact date nor the pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poltava Governorate
Poltava Governorate was an administrative-territorial unit (''guberniya'') of the Russian Empire. It was officially created in 1802 from the disbanded Little Russia Governorate (1796–1802), Little Russia Governorate and had its capital in Poltava. Its borders encompassed the modern Poltava Oblast of Ukraine, in addition to Berestyn, Pereiaslav, Romny and Zolotonosha. It was bordering the Chernigov Governorate, Chernigov and Kursk Governorates to the ''north'', Kiev Governorate to the ''west'', Kharkov Governorate to the ''east'' and the Kherson Governorate, Kherson and Yekaterinoslav Governorates to the ''south''. History In 1802, the Little Russia Governorate (1796–1802), Little Russia Governorate was disbanded and its territory split between the new Chernigov Governorate, Chernigov and Poltava Governorates. The governorate was part of the Ukrainian People's Republic from 1917 to 1920, interrupted in 1918 by the Ukrainian State. After the formation of the Ukrainian SSR ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raions Of Ukraine
A raion (; ), often translated as district, is the second-level Administrative divisions of Ukraine, administrative division in Ukraine. Raions were created in a 1922 administrative reform of the Soviet Union, to which Ukraine, as the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, belonged. On 17 July 2020, the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's parliament) approved an administrative reform to merge most of the 490 raions, along with the "City of regional significance (Ukraine), cities of regional significance", which were previously outside the raions, into just 136 reformed raions. Most tasks of the raions (education, healthcare, sport facilities, culture, and social welfare) were taken over by new hromadas, the subdivisions of raions.Where did 354 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Cities In Ukraine
There are 463 populated places in Ukraine, populated places in Ukraine that have been officially granted city status () by the Verkhovna Rada, the country's parliament, as of 23 April 2025. Settlements with more than 10,000 people are eligible for city status although the status is typically also granted to settlements of historical or regional importance. Smaller settlements are Populated places in Ukraine#Rural settlements, rural settlements () and villages (). Historically, there were systems of city rights, granted by the territorial lords, which defined the status of a place as a ''misto'' or ''selo''. In the past, cities were self-governing and had several privileges. The list of cities is roughly ordered by population and the 2022 estimates are compared to the 2001 Ukrainian census, except for Chernobyl for which the population is an unofficial estimate. The City with special status, cities with special status are shown in ''italic''. The average population size is 62,000. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Severyn Nalyvaiko
Severyn (Semerii) Nalyvaiko (, , in older historiography also ''Semen Nalewajko'', died 21 April 1597) was a leader of the Ukrainian Cossacks who became a hero of Ukrainian folklore. He led the failed Nalyvaiko Uprising against the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth for which he was tortured and executed in Warsaw. The Decembrist poet Kondraty Ryleyev wrote a poem about him."Nalyvaiko, Severyn" ''Encyclopedia of Ukraine'', vol. 3 (1993). Biography Nalyvaiko was born in the town of Husiatyn not far from into a[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kiev Viceroyalty
Kiev Viceroyalty () was an administrative-territorial unit (''namestnichestvo'') of the Russian Empire, which existed in 1781–1796. It was created in the process of Catherine's reforms initiated by edict of November 7, 1775. Description On September 16, 1781, an edict was issued to transform the governorate into a viceroyalty,Сергей Тархов, "Изменение административно-территориального деления России в XIII-XX в."pdf, ''Логос'' сс. 65–101, (Ivan Fundukley. ''Statistical Description of Kiev Governorate''. St. Petersburg, 1852) Governors Governor-generals (viceroys) * 1782–1796 – Petr Rumyantsev ** 1791–1793 – Mikhail Krechetnikov Michael N. Krechetnikov (, 1729, Moscow Moscow is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city of Russia, standing on the Moskva (river), Moskva River in Central Russia. It has a population e ..., '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sula River
The Sula (; ) is a left tributary of the Dnieper with a total length of and a drainage basin of . The river flows into the Dnieper through the Kremenchuk Reservoir, with which it forms a large delta with numerous islands, on which rare kinds of birds live. An important tributary is the Uday, smaller ones being Orzhytsya, Sliporid, Romen and Tern. Large cities located on the river are Romny, Lokhvytsia and Lubny. Etymology The river's name evokes slow or muddy waters considering the words it is related to: Lithuanian/ Latvian ''sulà'' "birch sap", Old Prussian ''sulo'' "curdled milk", Norwegian dialectal ''saula'' "dirt", Sanskrit '' súrā'' "spiritous liquor", and Avestan ''hurā'' "intoxicating drink, kumis". Another etymology of the hydronym A hydronym (from , , "water" and , , "name") is a type of toponym that designates a proper name of a body of water. Hydronyms include the proper names of rivers and streams, lakes and ponds, swamps and marshes, seas and oce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
