Moryntsi ( uk, Моринці) is a village (''selo'') in central

Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian invas ...

. It is located in the

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

(

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) of the

Cherkasy Oblast Cherkasy Oblast ( uk, Черка́ська о́бласть, Cherkaska oblast, ), also referred to as Cherkashchyna ( uk, Черка́щина, ) is an oblast (province) of central Ukraine located along the Dnieper River. The administrative ce ...

(

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), approximately 35 km from the raion's

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, Zvenyhorodka. Moryntsi belongs to

Zvenyhorodka urban hromada Zvenyhorodka ( uk, Звенигородка ; pl, Zwinogródka; russian: Звенигородка) is a city located in the Cherkasy Oblast ( province) in central Ukraine on the Hnylyi Tikych river. The town is the administrative center of th ...

, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. The great

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poet

Taras Shevchenko Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko ( uk, Тарас Григорович Шевченко , pronounced without the middle name; – ), also known as Kobzar Taras, or simply Kobzar (a kobzar is a bard in Ukrainian culture), was a Ukrainian poet, writ ...

was born in Moryntsi in 1814. The peasant house in which he was born has been restored and functions as a museum of his life.

History

Remains of the

Chernyakhov culture The Chernyakhov culture, Cherniakhiv culture or Sântana de Mureș—Chernyakhov culture was an archaeological culture that flourished between the 2nd and 5th centuries CE in a wide area of Eastern Europe, specifically in what is now Ukraine, Ro ...

have been found in the area of Moryntsi. The first recorded mention of the settlement was in 1648. File:Шевченко 080.jpg, Monument to mother of

File:Шевченко 087.jpg, Welcome sign at the village's entrance File:Шевченко 074.jpg, Another welcome sign at the village's entrance File:Шевченко 082.jpg, Yakym Boiko's hut, grandfather of Taras Shevchenko File:Birth-place of Taras Shevshenko.jpg, Birthplace of Shevchenko

References

Sources

* (1972). ''Історіа міст і сіл Української CCP – Черкаська область (History of Towns and Villages of the Ukrainian SSR – Cherkasy Oblast)'', Kiev.

External links

Moryntsi Website

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