Unreferenced date December 2009 Infobox settlement official name Putyvl native name image skyline settlement type Town coordinates display inline,title coordinates region UA subdivision type Country subdivision name Ukraine image seal Putivl1.gif subdivision type1 Oblast region type local Raion subdivision name1 Sumy region link Sumy Oblast region name local Putyvlsky Raion population total 20000 population as of January 1, 2004 area total km2 8.5 established date 989 established title Founded elevation m 177 latd 51 latm 19 latNS N longd 33 longm 52 longEW E website image map Putyvl Ukraine Map.PNG Putyvl or Putivl Lang uk , Putyvl , Lang ru , Putivl is a city in north east Ukraine , in Sumy Oblast . Currently about 20,000 people live in Putyvl. History One of the original Siveria n towns, Putyvl was first mentioned as early as 1146 as an important fortress contested between Chernigov and Novgorod Seversky principalities of Kievan Rus . The song of Yaroslavna on the walls of Putyvl is the emotional culmination of the medieval Lay of Igor s Campaign and Alexander Borodin s opera Prince Igor . After the Battle of Vedrosha in 1500, Putyvl was ceded to Muscovy Muscovite Russia . During the Time of Troubles , the town became the center of Ivan Bolotnikov s uprising and briefly a base for the False Dmitry I forces. Putyvl was part of Kursk Oblast Kursk guberniya of the Russian Empire prior to the Bolshevik Revolution . During the Second World War Soviet partisans led by Sydir Kovpak started their guerrilla warfare guerrilla war against the Germans in the forests all over the Northern Ukraine. Architecture The main architectural monument of Putivl is the Molchansky Monastery, which is largely of 17th century date. The foundations of its three domed cathedral, dedicated to the Nativity of the Theotokos , belong to the 1590s, but the main part of the church is one of the earliest Baroque architecture Baroque structures in the region, described in its ... more details
in Putyvl 1986 , Hlukhiv 1992 , Sumy 1993 . Rehabilitation and preservation of historical town ... in Hlukhiv 1999 . Master plans of state historical architectural preserves in Hlukhiv 2003 , Putyvl ... Europe, Kiev, 2007 Ukrainian Wooden Churches Kiev, 2007 Monasteries and Churches of Putyvl region ... more details
File Putyvl Train Station Old.jpg 250px right thumb Railway station Putivl, located in Buryn Buryn lang uk is a city in Sumy Oblast , Ukraine . Population is 11,678 2001 . Buryn is an administrative center of the Buryn District in the Sumy Region. The first mention of it in the chronicles is dated by 1688. This small cosy town is situated at the banks of the Chasha River. It s dambed creating a huge pond, planted by the yewtrees around. Sumy Oblast coord 51 12 N 33 51 E region UA type city 11607 source ruwiki display title Category Cities in Sumy Oblast Sumy geo stub ar fa fr Bouryn pl Bury crh Bur n ro Bur n ru uk ... more details
Vasili Ivanovich Shemyachich lang ru , ? 1529 Russian prince, who was knyaz of Novgorod Seversky ? 1523 and lord of Putyvl 1500 1523 . Vasili Ivanovich Shemyachich was a grandson of the famous knyaz of Galich , Dmitry Yurievich Shemyaka . His father, Ivan Dmitrievich , was forced to flee to Lithuania in 1454 the Poland Polish king Casimir IV who was also the Grand Duke of Lithuania bestowed him the duchy of Novgorod Seversky. Novgorod Seversky was an ancient duchy of Kievan Rus , but was annexed to Lithuania for a long time. Vasili Ivanovich became duke of Novgorod Seversky after his father s death. When there was some anti Eastern Orthodox Church Orthodox inklings appeared in Lithuania, Vasili Ivanovich went back to Russia in 1500. He was accepted by Ivan III of Moscow as a vassal, and his feud, Novgorod Seversky fell in control of Moscow. Ivan III also gave him a new feud, Putyvl, a very small duchy in Ukraine . After that, Vasili Ivanovich had fought against Poland Lithuania sometimes for Grand Duchy of Moscow , and had been involved in struggle with Crimean Khanate . There were some princes around the Grand Duke hated Vasili Ivanovich, especially Vasili Semenovich of Mozhaysk . In 1523, Vasili Ivanovich Shemyachich was indicted for treason . He was called to Moscow, then detained. He dead in prison in 1529. References Historical Encyclopedia of USSR , Volume of Persons, published in 1961 1973 Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Shemyachich, Vasili Ivanovich ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1529 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Shemyachich, Vasili Ivanovich Category Year of birth missing Category 1529 deaths Category Russian nobility Russia noble stub ru zh ... more details
Goryuns also Goriuns , Goryuny is a little documented ethnic group of East Slavs living around Putyvl in the Sumy Oblast of Ukraine . The dialect of the Russian language spoken by Goryuns has some features of Belarusian language Belarusian and Ukrainian language Ukrainian . ref name conf F.D. Klimchuk, About ethnoliguistic history of Left Bank of Dnieper in connection to the ethnogenesis of Goriuns . Published in Goriuns history, language, culture Proceedings of International scientific conferenc, Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences, February 13, 2004 ref Goryuns are usually considered to represent a tiny sub ethnos of Russians . ref name kongr http www.kngu.org KongrUkr Communit ObzhRuss.htm Russians in Ukraine ref Regardless, they consider themselves to be distinct from other Russians , as well as Ukrainians living in the same region . ref name svoboda http www.svoboda.org programs civil 2004 civil.022704.asp Radio Free Europe about the Goryuns ref Goryun villages were mentioned for the first time in chronicles in sixteenth century, shortly after the annexation of the region to Grand Duchy of Moscow Muscovy . From this the Belarusian scientist Fiodar Klimchuk concludes that the Goryuns might have lived in the region before the year 1500 . ref name conf There are different hypotheses about the origin of Goriuns. James Stuart Olson describes them as a Ukrainianized subgroup of the Polekhs . ref Olson, James Stuart. An Ethnohistorical Dictionary of the Russian and Soviet Empires . Greenwood Press, 1994. ISBN 0 313 27497 5. Page 554. ref According to Fiodar Klimchuk, the Goryuns may be descendants of local Severians or they might be of mixed Severian Radimich stock, or their Severian ancestors might have moved to North West and then returned. ref name conf Some researchers believe that they are autochthonous to the region and are related to the local early ... is now Belarus that were mixed with the local population. ref name putyvl http www.putivlrada.gov.ua ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 Infobox River river name Seym, image name Sejm in bupel.jpg caption Seym in Kursk Oblast origin Russia mouth Desna river Desna basin countries Russia , Ukraine length 748 km elevation discharge watershed 27,500 km Seym also transliterated as Seim and Sejm , in Lang ru uk is a river in Russia and Ukraine . Its length is 748 km and its basin area about 27,500 km . It is the largest tributary of the Desna river Desna . Towns located on the river Kursk , Rylsk , Putyvl , Kurchatov, Russia Kurchatov . coord 51 27 34 N 32 33 50 E source kolossus ruwiki display title Category Tributaries of the Dnieper River Category Rivers of Belgorod Oblast Category Rivers of Kursk Oblast Category Rivers of Sumy Oblast BelgorodOblast geo stub KurskOblast geo stub Ukraine geo stub be be x old cs Sejm eka da Sejm flod de Seim Fluss et Seimi j gi es R o Seim eo Sejm rivero fr Se m ko it Sejm fiume lt Seimas up ms Sungai Seim nl Sejm rivier ja no Sejm elv nn Sejm i Russland pl Sejm rzeka ru sv Sejm flod tr Seym Nehri uk zh ... more details
Infobox military person name Sydir Kovpak birth date June 7, 1887 death date December 11, 1967 aged 80 birth place Poltava , Ukraine , Russian Empire death place Kiev , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union image File Sydir Kovpak.JPG 250px caption Grave of S d r Kovpak in the Baikove Cemetery in Kiev nickname allegiance flagicon Russia Russian Empire br flag Soviet Union 1923 serviceyears 1914 1925 br 1941 1945 rank Major General commands Putyvl partisans and allied partisan units br 1st Ukrainian Partisan Division unit battles World War I br Brusilov Offensive World War II awards Hero of the Soviet Union Hero of the Soviet Union br Cross of St. George 2 br Order of Lenin 4 br Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky 1st Class br Order of Suvorov 2nd Class br Order of the Red Banner laterwork various top positions in government of Soviet Ukraine Deleted image removed Image Sydr kovpak.GIF thumb Kovpak in action deletable image caption Monday, 3 May 2010 Sydir Artemovych Kovpak lang uk lang ru , Sidor Art m evich Kovpak , June 7, 1887 ndash December 11, 1967 was a prominent Soviet partisans Soviet partisan leader in Ukrainian SSR Ukraine . Biography Kovpak was born to a poor peasant family in Ukraine Ukrainian village near Poltava then of the Russian Empire . For his military service in the World War I he was awarded two Cross of St. George Crosses of St. George personally by the Emperor of Russia Emperor Nicholas II of Russia an award for special military heroism . After the October Revolution Russian Revolution he joined the Bolsheviks All Russian Communist Party Bolsheviks and fought for the Red Army partisan units against the German Empire German forces , as well as against Denikin s White Army in a legendary Vasily Chapayev s cavalry division. In the interwar period he was a head of the local government in the town of Putyvl , Sumy Oblast oblast province . World War II At the time of the Eastern Front World War II German invasion of S ... more details
The following is a list of prisoner of war camp s in the Soviet Union during World War II . The Soviet Union had not signed the Geneva convention in 1929. On September 19, 1939, Lavrenty Beria the People s Commissar for Internal Affairs ordered Pyotr Soprunenko to set up the NKVD Administration for Affairs of Prisoners of War and Internees to manage camps for Polish prisoners. The following camps were established to hold members of the Polish Army Jukhnovo rail station of Babynino , Yuzhe Talitsy , Kozelsk , Kozelshchyna , Oranki , Stolbnyi Island on Lake Seliger near Ostashkov , Putyvl rail station of Tetkino , Starobelsk , Vologod rail station of Zaenikevo , Gryazovets . Sites where Poles were detained Aktobe Alma Ata Archangelsk Ashmyany August w ref name electronic0 http www.electronicmuseum.ca Poland WW2 soviet deportations deportations album 1.html ref Baranovichi Berezhany Berdychiv Bia ystok ref name electronic0 Bibrka ref name electronic0 Boryslav ref name electronic0 Bratsk Bryansk Brest, Belarus Brest Busk, Ukraine Busk Butyrka prison Butyrka , Moscow Ciechanowiec ref name electronic0 Chortkiv Dobromil ref name electronic0 Drohiczyn Drohobych ref name electronic0 Dubno ref name electronic0 Bishkek Frunze G bokie Gomel Nizhny Novgorod Gorki Horodok, Lviv Oblast Horodok Horodenka ref name electronic0 Hrodna Igarka Kalush, Ukraine Kalush ref name electronic0 Kamenets Podolsky Kamianka Buzka Kaunas Karaganda Kazan Kharkov Kiev Kirov, Kirov Oblast Kirov Kobryn Kolomyia Komarno Kovel Kremenets Samara, Russia Kuybyshev Kutaisi Saint Petersburg Leningrad Lida Lviv ref name electronic0 om a Lubyanka KGB Lubyanka , Moscow Lutsk Magadan Mykolaiv, Lviv Oblast Mykolaiv Minsk Maladzyechna Murmansk Nadvirna Nyasvizh Norilsk Veliky Novgorod Navahrudak Novosibirsk Odessa Oleszyce ref name electronic0 Omsk Orsk Orsha Ostroh Pasieczna ref name electronic0 Pavlodar Pechenizhyn Perm Petropavlovsk Kamchatsky Petropavlovsk Pinsk ref name electronic0 Pruzhany Przemy l Peremysh ... more details
File Ziemie Czernihowsko Siewierskie w XV wieku.jpg thumb Severia in 15 c. Severia or Siveria lang sla , lang uk or , Romanization of Ukrainian translit. Siveria or Sivershchyna , lang ru , Severshchina lang pl Siewierszczyzna is a historical region in present day northern Ukraine , eastern Belarus and southwestern Russia , centered around the city of Novhorod Siverskyi in Ukraine. Severians main Severians The region received its name after the Severians , an East Slavic peoples East Slavic tribe which inhabited the territory in the late 1st millennium A.D. Their main settlements included the present day cities of Novhorod Siverskyi, Chernihiv Chernigov , Putyvl Putivl , Hlukhiv Glukhov , Liubech , Kursk , Rylsk , Starodub , Trubchevsk , Sevsk , and Bryansk . According to the Primary Chronicle , the Severians, having paid tribute to the Khazars , along with the neighboring Polans eastern Polans , were conquered by Oleg of Novgorod , who incorporated their lands into the new principality of Kievan Rus . By the time of Yaroslav the Wise 1019 1054 , the Severian peoples had lost most of their distinctness, and the areas of Severia along the upper course of the Desna River came to be controlled from Chernihiv. Principality main Principality of Novgorod Seversk In 1096, Oleg I of Chernigov also referred to as Oleh created a large Severian Principality, which stretched as far as the upper reaches of the Oka River . Until the end of the century, the principality served as a buffer state against Cumans Cuman attacks. Its most celebrated ruler was Igor Svyatoslavich Prince Igor 1150 1202 , whose exploits are recounted in the 12th century epic The Tale of Igor s Campaign . After the Mongol invasion of Rus , the principality fell into ruin, however it remained intact throughout repeated Tatar invasions . Unfortunately, not much is known about this period as Severia was rarely mentioned in written accounts of the 13th and 14th centuries. By t ... more details
Unreferenced date November 2007 File Principalities of Kievan Rus 1054 1132 .jpg thumb 300px Principalities of Kievan Rus 1054 1132 . History of Ukraine right The Principality of Chernigov Chernihiv is one of the largest state formations of Kievan Rus . For a time the principality was the second most important after Kiev. Location The greater part of Chernigov Principality was located on the left bank of the river Dnieper , within the basins of the Desna river Desna and Seym River Seim rivers. The principality was supposedly mostly populated by Slavic tribes of Siverians and partially by the Dnieper Polans eastern Polans . Later the territory of the principality was extended to the lands of Radimichs and partially Vyatichs and Drehovichs . The capital of the principality was the city of Chernigov, modern Chernihiv . Other important cities were Novhorod Siversky , Starodub , Bryansk , Putyvl , Kursk , Lubech , Hlukhiv , Chechersk , Gomel Homiel , Vyr , etc. Ownership and influence of the Chernigov Principality reached far to the North the Murom Ryazan Land and to the South East Tmutorokan Principality . History According to the Primary Chronicle before the 11th century, the principality was ruled by local tribal elderly and voevode s from Kiev that were appointed by the Grand Prince to collect tribute from the local population, manage judicial trials, and defend the land from external enemies. In the years 1024&ndash 1036 the principality of Chernigov was passed under the administration of son of the Vladimir the Great , Mstislav of Chernigov who came there from Tmutorokan. Together with Yaroslav the Wise Mstislav ruled the Kievan Rus establishing Chernigov as one of the most important administration centers within the Rus. Upon the death of Mstislav Chernigov was incorporated into the realm of Kiev. After Yaroslav the Wise the principality of Chernigov was passed to one of his sons Grand Prince Sviatoslav II of Kiev Sviatoslav , who gave rise to the Chernigov branch ... more details
Image Bolotnikov.jpg thumb 250px Bolotnikov s Battle with the Tsar s Army at Nizhniye Kotly Near Moscow by a Russian painter Ernst Lissner . Ivan Isayevich Bolotnikov lang ru 1565 1608 was the leader of a popular uprising in Russia in 1606 1607 known as the Bolotnikov rebellion . The uprising was part of the Time of Troubles in Russia. Biography Little information is available about Ivan Bolotnikov s life before the uprising. It is known that he was a kholop and belonged to the household of Prince Andrei Telyatevsky . It appears that Bolotnikov fled from his master s estate, then was captured by the Crimean Tatars , and sold to the Ottoman Empire Turks as a galley slave . He somehow managed to escape from his owners, reached Venice , and then was captured in Poland en route to Russia by the associates of Mikhail Molchanov one of the assassins of Feodor Godunov , who had successfully fled from Moscow and was again contemplating the second coming of False Dmitry II False Dmitry . Molchanov sent Ivan Bolotnikov to the town of Putyvl to meet a voyevoda named Grigory Shakhovskoy . The latter received him as the new tsar s envoy and put him in charge of a Cossack unit. Ivan Bolotnikov used this opportunity to muster a small army of runaway kholops, peasants, outlaws, and vagabonds, disgruntled at the powers that be. He promised them to exterminate the ruling class and establish a new social system. By the order of Grigory Shakhovskoy, Bolotnikov and his large army advanced to Kromy today s Oryol Oblast in August 1606, defeating the Muscovy Muscovite army under the command of Prince Yury Trubetskoy . From there, he moved towards Serpukhov and ravaged the city. Also, there were several other rebellions across Russia at that time, the participants of which would join Ivan Bolotnikov s army. Most of the insurgents Cossacks, gentry , service class people , and even boyar children organized themselves into three main groups ... more details
The first known mention of Russian speaking people in Ukraine refer to a small ethnic sub group of Russians known as the Goriuns who resided in Putyvl region what is modern northern Ukraine . These mentions date back to the times of Grand Duchy of Lithuania or perhaps even earlier, ref name conf F.D. Klimchuk, About ethnoliguistic history of Left Bank of Dnieper in connection to the ethnogenesis of Goriuns . Published in Goriuns history, language, culture Proceedings of International scientific conference, Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences, February 13, 2004 ref ref name kongr http www.kngu.org KongrUkr Communit ObzhRuss.htm Russians in Ukraine ref The Russian language in Ukraine however, has primarily come to exist in that country through two channels the migration of ethnic Russians into Ukraine and through the adoption of the Russian language as a language of communication by Ukrainians. Russian migration The first waves of Russian settlers onto Ukrainian territory came in the late 16th century to the area knowna as Slobozhanschyna or Sloboda Ukraina, in what is now northeastern Ukraine. This territory was settled after being abandoned by the Golden Horde Tatars . ref name kongr Russian settlers however were outnumbered by Ukrainian settlers who were escaping harsh exploitative conditions in the west. ref name autogenerated1 http www.encyclopediaofukraine.com display.asp?AddButton pages S L SlobidskaUkraine.htm Display Page Bot generated title ref More Russian speakers appeared in northern, central and eastern Ukrainian territories during the late 17th century, following the Khmelnytsky Uprising Cossack Rebellion led by Bohdan Khmelnytsky . Following the Pereyaslav Rada the modern northern and eastern parts of Ukraine entered into the Tsardom of Russia . This brought a small wave of Russian settlers into central Ukraine primarily several thousand soldiers stationed in garrisons, ref name autogenerated1 out of a population of approximately 1.2 ... more details
Infobox Military Conflict conflict Siege of Hlukhiv partof Russo Polish War 1654 1667 date January 1664 place Hlukhiv , Sumy Oblast , Ukraine result Decisive Russo Ukrainian victory combatant1 Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth br Crimean Khanate combatant2 Russian Tsardom br Zaporozhian Cossacks commander1 Jan II Casimir Vasa br John III Sobieski Jan Sobieski br Stefan Czarniecki commander2 Grigory Romodanovsky br Ivan Briukhovetsky br Avraam Lopukhin br Vasily Dvoretsky strength1 strength2 casualties1 casualties2 campaignbox Russo Polish War 1654 1667 The siege of Hlukhiv Glukhov, G uch w was one of the final events of the Russo Polish War 1654 1667 Russo Polish War of 1654 1667 . The army of king Jan II Casimir , numbering 90,000 men, unsuccessfully besieged the Russo Ukrainian garrison of Hlukhiv and finally retreated under pressure from the Russian army of prince Grigory Romodanovsky . The siege and the following retreat, during which the Polish army became the target of Russian attacks, proved to be one of the worst defeats in the whole course of war. Background In November 1663 Jan II Casimir and Hetman of Right bank Ukraine, Pavlo Teteria , began an offensive against Left bank Ukraine with an army of 130,000. ref name gramont Antoine III de Gramont . The history of Muscovite campaign of John II Casimir. Tartu. 1929. http www.vostlit.info Texts rus9 Gramon frametext.htm Russian text ref Without sufficient forces to stop the offensive, Grigory Romodanovsky and Ivan Briukhovetsky retreated to Putyvl . Proceeding almost without resistance, the army of Jan II Casimir ultimately besieged Hlukhiv, which was defended by the Cossacks of the Kievan polkovnik Vasily Dvoretsky and the Russian streltsy of Avraam Lopukhin . Battle With the help of artillery and explosives the Polish army managed to destroy some parts of the wall. Jan Sobieski personally led the troops during the storming of the town. The Poles entered the town, but blundered into an ambush and came under heav ... more details
Infobox settlement official name Berdychiv native name nickname image skyline Berdichev.jpg image caption 17th century fortified Carmelite convent in Berdychiv. image flag image shield nickname motto image map mapsize map caption coordinates display inline,title coordinates region UA subdivision type Countries of the world Country subdivision type1 Administrative divisions of Ukraine Oblast subdivision name Ukraine subdivision name1 Zhytomyr Oblast established title Founded established date 1430 established title1 established date1 leader title Mayor Head of City br Council leader name V. K. Mazur area magnitude area total km2 area land km2 area water km2 population as of 2003 population note population total 86200 population footnotes population metro population density km2 pushpin map Ukraine pushpin label position the position of the pushpin label left, right, top, bottom, none pushpin map caption Location of Berdychiv pushpin mapsize latd 49 latm 54 lats 0 latNS N longd 28 longm 34 longs 0 longEW E elevation m postal code area code blank info blank1 info website footnotes Berdychiv lang uk , Polish language Polish Berdycz w, lang ru , Romanization of Russian translit. Berdichev is a historic city in the Zhytomyr Oblast Oblast province of northern Ukraine . Serving as the Capital city administrative center of the Berdychiv Raion raion district , the city itself is of direct oblast subordinance, and is located convert 44 km mi abbr on south of the oblast capital, Zhytomyr , at around Coord 49 54 N 28 35 E . Its 2001 estimated population is around 88,000. History In 1430, Grand Duke of Lithuania Vitautas granted the rights over the area to Kalinik, the procurator of Putyvl and Zvenigorod, and it is believed that his servant named Berdich founded a khutor remote settlement there. However the etymology of the name Berdychiv is not known. In 1483, Crimean Tatars Crimean Tatar s destroyed the settleme ... more details
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