Shyshaky (; ) 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 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 ...

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. It was formerly the administrative center of

Shyshaky Raion Shyshaky Raion () was a raion (district) in Poltava Oblast of central Ukraine. The raion's administrative center was the urban-type settlement of Shyshaky. The raion was abolished and its territory was merged into Myrhorod Raion on 18 July 2020 a ...

until 2020, but now administrated within

Myrhorod Raion Myrhorod Raion (; translit.: ''Myrhorods'kyi raion'') is a raion (district) in Poltava Oblast of central Ukraine. The raion's administrative center is the city of Myrhorod. Population: On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Uk ...

. Shyshaky hosts the administration of

Shyshaky settlement hromada Shyshaky (; ) is a rural settlement in Poltava Oblast, Ukraine. It was formerly the administrative center of Shyshaky Raion until 2020, but now administrated within Myrhorod Raion. Shyshaky hosts the administration of Shyshaky settlement hromada ...

, one of the

hromada In Ukraine, a hromada () is the main type of municipality and the third level Administrative divisions of Ukraine, local self-government in Ukraine. The current hromadas were established by the Cabinet of ministers of Ukraine, Government of Uk ...

s of Ukraine. It is located on the left bank of the Psel, a left tributary of the Dnieper. Population:

History

In ХІХ century Shyshaky was part of Shyshaky

volost Volost (; ; ) was a traditional administrative subdivision in Kievan Rus', the Grand Duchy of Moscow, and the Russian Empire. History The '' Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary'' (1890–1907) states that the origins of the concept is unc ...

, Mirgorodsky Uyezd,

Poltava Governorate Poltava Governorate was an administrative-territorial unit (''guberniya'') of the Russian Empire. It was officially created in 1802 from the disbanded Little Russia Governorate (1796–1802), Little Russia Governorate and had its capital in Polt ...

.Историческая информация о местечке Миргород
/ref> Until 26 January 2024, Shyshaky 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 Shyshaky became a rural settlement.

Economy

Transportation

The settlement has access to Highway M03 connecting Kyiv and

Kharkiv Kharkiv, also known as Kharkov, is the second-largest List of cities in Ukraine, city in Ukraine.

via

Poltava Poltava (, ; , ) is a city located on the Vorskla, Vorskla River in Central Ukraine, Central Ukraine. It serves as the administrative center of Poltava Oblast as well as Poltava Raion within the oblast. It also hosts the administration of Po ...

. It also has access to

Velyki Sorochyntsi Velyki Sorochyntsi (; formerly referred to simply as Sorochyntsi) is a village in Myrhorod Raion, Poltava Oblast, central Ukraine. It formerly had town status. It hosts the administration of Velyki Sorochyntsi rural hromada, one of the hromadas ...

and

Myrhorod Myrhorod (, ) is a city in Poltava Oblast, central Ukraine. It serves as the Capital city, administrative center of Myrhorod Raion. Myrhorod also hosts the administration of Myrhorod urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. It is locate ...

. The closest railway station, Yareski, about southwest of Shyshaky and on the railway line connecting Poltava and

Romodan Romodan (; ) is a rural settlement in Myrhorod Raion, Poltava Oblast, Ukraine. It is located northwest of the city of Poltava, at the sources of the Voinykha and the Lykhobabivka, both in the drainage basin of the Dnieper. Romodan hosts the admin ...

via Myrhorod. There is both local and long-distance passenger traffic.

References

{{authority control Rural settlements in Myrhorod Raion Mirgorodsky Uyezd