Kalynopil (), formerly known as Katerynopil () is a

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Zvenyhorodka Raion Zvenyhorodka Raion is a raion (district) of Cherkasy Oblast, in central Ukraine. Its administrative centre is the city of Zvenyhorodka. Population: On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Cherka ...

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, central

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. It hosts the administration of Katerynopil settlement hromada, one of the

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s of Ukraine. Population:

History

Until 1795 it was a village and later a ''

miasteczko A ( or (, ) was a historical type of urban settlement similar to a market town in the former Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. After the partitions of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth at the end of the 18th century, these settlements became w ...

'' of ''Kalnebłota'', ''Kalnebłoto'' (), and after parts of Poland were incorporated into the

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, in 1797 it was renamed ''Yekaterinopol'' () after the Russian

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Catherine the Great Catherine II. (born Princess Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst; 2 May 172917 November 1796), most commonly known as Catherine the Great, was the reigning empress of Russia from 1762 to 1796. She came to power after overthrowing her husband, Peter I ...

. Until 18 July 2020, Katerynopil served as an administrative center of Katerynopil Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Cherkasy Oblast to four. The area of Katerynopil Raion was merged into Zvenyhorodka Raion. Until 26 January 2024, Katerynopil was designated

urban-type settlement Urban-type settlement, abbreviated: ; , abbreviated: ; ; ; ; . is an official designation for lesser urbanized settlements, used in several Central and Eastern Europe, Central and Eastern European countries. The term was primarily used in the So ...

. On this day, a new law entered into force which abolished this status, and Katerynopil became a rural settlement. Archaeologists have found remains of the ancient Trypillya culture on the territory of Katerynopil. During the

Khmelnytsky Uprising The Khmelnytsky Uprising, also known as the Cossack–Polish War, Khmelnytsky insurrection, or the National Liberation War, was a Cossack uprisings, Cossack rebellion that took place between 1648 and 1657 in the eastern territories of the Poli ...

in 1648–1654, Kalnyboloto was a

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town of the Korsun

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. On March 5, 1923, Katerynopil was given the status of an administrative center of its surrounding district. On April 3, 2024, the in the

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stated their support for renaming the settlement to Kalynopil (). On 19 September 2024, the Verkhovna Rada voted to rename Katerynopil to Kalynopil.

Notable people

* Semen Hryzlo (c. 1887–1921), Ukrainian military and civil activist, organizer of the

Free Cossacks Free Cossacks () were Ukrainian Cossacks that were organized as volunteer militia units in the spring of 1917 in the Ukrainian People's Republic. The Free Cossacks are seen as precursors of the modern Ukrainian national law enforcement organiz ...

Wolf Ladejinsky Wolf Isaac Ladejinsky (March 15, 1899 – July 3, 1975) was an American Georgist agricultural economist and researcher, serving first in the United States Department of Agriculture, then the Ford Foundation and later the World Bank. He was a ke ...

(1899–1975), a prominent American economist, mastermind of the land reform of 1946 in Japan * Yuriy Kosiuk (born 1968), Ukrainian billionaire, CEO of MHP

References

External links

* {{Authority control Rural settlements in Zvenyhorodka Raion Populated places established in 1568 1568 establishments in Europe