Radychiv (; ; English, connected with the Hutterites: ''Radichev'') is a small village in
Novhorod-Siverskyi Raion
Novhorod-Siverskyi Raion () is a raion (district) of Chernihiv Oblast, northern Ukraine. Its administrative centre is located at Novhorod-Siverskyi. Population:
On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of ra ...
,
Chernihiv Oblast
Chernihiv Oblast (), also referred to as Chernihivshchyna (), is an administrative divisions of Ukraine, oblast (province) in northern Ukraine. The capital city, administrative center of the oblast is the city of Chernihiv. There are 1,511 sett ...
, Ukraine. The population is about 800 people. The village is located on the right bank of the
Desna River
The Desna ( Russian and ) is a river in Russia and Ukraine, a major left-tributary of the Dnieper. Its name in means "right hand". It has a length of , and its drainage basin covers .Ponornytsia settlement hromada, one of the
hromada
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s of Ukraine.
The village played an important role in the history of the
Hutterite
Hutterites (; ), also called Hutterian Brethren (German: ), are a communal ethnoreligious branch of Anabaptists, who, like the Amish and Mennonites, trace their roots to the Radical Reformation of the early 16th century and have formed intent ...
s, because all Hutterite, leaving Vishenka, lived there from 1802 to 1842.
Until 18 July 2020, Radychiv belonged to Korop Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Chernihiv Oblast to five. The area of Korop Raion was merged into Novhorod-Siverskyi Raion.