Dykanka () is a

rural settlement The definition of a rural settlement depends on the country, in some countries, a rural settlement is any settlement in the areas defined as rural by a governmental office, e.g., by the national census bureau. This may include even rural towns. ...

Poltava Raion Poltava Raion () is a raion (district) in Poltava Oblast of central Ukraine. The raion's administrative center is the city of Poltava. Population: On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Poltava ...

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 par ...

in central

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. It hosts the administration of

Dykanka settlement hromada Dykanka () is a rural settlement in Poltava Raion of Poltava Oblast in central Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Dykanka settlement hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population: The settlement is located away from Poltava-Kyivska ...

, one of the

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s of Ukraine. Population: The settlement is located away from Poltava-Kyivska railway station.

History

Ancient history

Dykanka was first mentioned in 1658 as a small village, though the area was populated for centuries before. Within the area of modern Dykanka, traces exist of

Scythian The Scythians ( or ) or Scyths (, but note Scytho- () in composition) and sometimes also referred to as the Pontic Scythians, were an ancient Eastern Iranian equestrian nomadic people who had migrated during the 9th to 8th centuries BC fr ...

settlement at various times. Also found were the remains of a settlement that had at one point been razed and the remains of two settlements from the 7th–6th centuries BC.

Medieval history

In 1430, the Dykanka area came under the ownership of Tatar Murza Leksada Mansurksanovych, the future Prince Alexander Glinski, and, according to Leo Padalka and other pre-revolutionary (before 1917) historians, Dykanka was among his ″settlements″.

Modern history

Dykanka has held the status of

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since 1957. Until 18 July 2020, Dykanka was the administrative center of

Dykanka Raion Dykanka Raion (; translit.: ''Dykans'kyi Raion'') was a raion (district) in Poltava Oblast in central Ukraine. The raion's administrative center was the urban-type settlement of Dykanka. The raion was abolished on 18 July 2020 as part of the adm ...

. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of

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of Poltava Oblast to four. The area of Dykanka Raion was merged into Poltava Raion. On 26 January 2024, a new law entered into force which abolished the urban-type settlement status, and Dykanka became a rural settlement.

Culture

Dykanka is the location of the short story collection ''

Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka ''Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka'' () is a collection of short stories by Nikolai Gogol, written in 1829–1832. They appeared in various magazines and were published in book form when Gogol was twenty-two. The collection's frame story takes pl ...

'' by

Nikolai Gogol Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol; ; (; () was a Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright of Ukrainian origin. Gogol used the Grotesque#In literature, grotesque in his writings, for example, in his works "The Nose (Gogol short story), ...

. The tale of St John's Eve, concerning the family of the Church Sexton, inspired

Mussorgsky Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (; ; ; – ) was a Russian composer, one of the group known as "The Five (composers), The Five." He was an innovator of Music of Russia, Russian music in the Romantic music, Romantic period and strove to achieve a ...

's tone poem Night on the Bare Mountain.

Gallery

File:The facade of the palace of the estate Kochubey Dikanka.JPG, The facade of the palace of the estate Kochubeys. The architect

Giacomo Quarenghi Giacomo Quarenghi (; , ; 20 or 21 September 1744) was an Italian architect who was the foremost and most prolific practitioner of neoclassical architecture in Imperial Russia, particularly in Saint Petersburg. He brought into vogue an original mo ...

. Picture the end of 19th century File:Dykanka. Arc de Triomphe. The author of the project - the academician of architecture Luigi Rusca (1820)..jpg, Triumphal Arch. The architect - the academician of architecture

Luigi Rusca Luigi Rusca (Алоизий Иванович Руска; 1762–1822) was a Neoclassical architecture, Neoclassical architect from Ticino who worked in Russia, Ukraine and Estonia between 1783 and 1818. Life and career Rusca was apprenticed to ...

, 1820 File:Church of the Holy Trinity, 1780. Late Baroque. Dykanka.jpg, Church of the Holy Trinity, 1780, late Baroque File:Church of St. Nicholas in the urban settlement Dikanka. The architect of M. A. Lvov, 1797..jpg, Church of St. Nicholas. Architect N. A. Lvov, 1797 File:Диканька. Дзвінниця Миколаївської церкви.jpg, The bell tower of St. Nicholas Church. Architect Luigi Rusca, 1810–1827. Postcard late 19th century File:Lilac Grove in Dykańka.jpg, Lilac Grove. The former estate of Prince Kochubey. Laid down in the early 19th century File:Україна. Диканька. Картинна галерея ім. М.К. Башкирцевої.jpg, Picture gallery of Marie Bashkirtseff

References

External links

"Dikanka"
(news of Dikanka, events, weather, all in English and Russian language) {{Authority control Rural settlements in Poltava Raion Poltavsky Uyezd Populated places established in 1957