Zvenyhorodka

Zvenyhorodka Звенигородка
Central part of Zvenyhorodka
Coat of arms
Zvenyhorodka Location of Zvenyhorodka
Zvenyhorodka
Coordinates: 49°4′11″N 30°58′4″E / 49.06972°N 30.96778°ECoordinates: 49°4′11″N 30°58′4″E / 49.06972°N 30.96778°E
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Cherkasy Oblast
Raion	Zvenyhorodka Raion
Established	1394
City rights	1938
Area
• Total	20.8 km^2 (8.0 sq mi)
Population (2011)
• Total	18 330
Postal code	20200-20207
Area code(s)	+380 4740
Website	www.zven.gov.ua

Zvenyhorodka (Ukrainian: Звенигородка; Polish: Zwinogródka; Russian: Звенигородка) is a city located in the Cherkasy Oblast (province) in central Ukraine on the river Hnylyi Tikych.

The town is the administrative center of the Zvenyhorodka Raion (district).

History

Zvenyhorodka became part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the beginning of the 15th century. It passed to the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland in 1569. In 1792 King Stanisław August Poniatowski granted Zwinogródka city rights. It was a royal city of Poland. In the next year it was annexed by Russia after the Second Partition of Poland. During the 19th century it had been part of the Russian Kiev Governorate. Around the turn to the 20th century the town had a train station, three Greek Orthodox churches and one Roman Catholic church.^[1]

Number of inhabitants in years

• 1897: 16,972^[1]
• 1926: 18,020, 61% Ukrainians, 37% Jews, 1% Russians and 1% Poles.^[2]
• 2005: approx. 19,900.

Notable residents

• Ahatanhel Krymsky (1871-1942), Ukrainian philologist and orientalist.
• David Günzburg (1857–1910), Russian orientalist and Jewish communal leader.
• Horace Günzburg (1833–1909), Russian philanthropist.
• Fay Herbstman (1922-2015), Noted chef, author of cooking compilations, and founding mother of the Herbstman Society.

Gallery

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  Taras Shevchenko monument

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  Ahatanhel Krymsky Museum in Zvenyhorodka

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  Nature in Zvenyhorodka

References

• (Ukrainian) (1972) Icтopia мicт i ciл Укpaїнcькoї CCP - Черкаськa область (History of Towns and Villages of the Ukrainian SSR - Cherkasy Oblast), Kiev.

Footnotes

1. Meyers Konversations-Lexikon. 6th edition, vol. 19, Leipzig and Vienna 1909, p. 227 (in German).
2. Der Große Brockhaus. 15th edition, vol. 18, Leipzig 1934, p. 368 (in German).