Moryntsi () is a village (''selo'') in central

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. It is located in the

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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) of the

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(

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), approximately 35 km from the raion's

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Zvenyhorodka Zvenyhorodka (, ) is a city in Cherkasy Oblast, central Ukraine, situated on the Hnylyi Tikych River. The town is the administrative center of Zvenyhorodka Raion. It hosts the administration of Zvenyhorodka urban hromada, one of the hromadas ...

. Moryntsi belongs to

Zvenyhorodka urban hromada Zvenyhorodka urban territorial hromada () is one of the hromadas of Ukraine, in Zvenyhorodka Raion within Cherkasy Oblast. Its administrative centre is the city of Zvenyhorodka Zvenyhorodka (, ) is a city in Cherkasy Oblast, central Ukraine ...

, one of the

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s of Ukraine. The Ukrainian poet

Taras Shevchenko Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko (; ; 9 March 1814 – 10 March 1861) was a Ukrainian poet, writer, artist, public and political figure, folklorist, and ethnographer. He was a fellow of the Imperial Academy of Arts and a member of the Brotherhood o ...

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.

Population

Language

Distribution of the population by native language according to the 2001 census:

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

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