Hadiach

Hadiach
Гадяч
City of regional significance

Cathedral Square in Hadiach

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Hadiach

Location of Hadiach

Coordinates: 50°22′00″N 34°0′0″E / 50.36667°N 34.00000°E / 50.36667; 34.00000Coordinates: 50°22′00″N 34°0′0″E / 50.36667°N 34.00000°E / 50.36667; 34.00000
Country  Ukraine
Oblast Poltava Oblast
Raion Hadiach Raion
Founded 16431
Government
 • Mayor Tetyana Savchenko
Area
 • Total 17.78 km2 (6.86 sq mi)
Elevation 132 m (433 ft)
Population (2015)
 • Total 24,129
 • Density 1,400/km2 (4,000/sq mi)
Time zone EET (UTC+2)
 • Summer (DST) EEST (UTC+3)
Postal code 36000—36499
Area code(s) +380 532
Website gadiach.osp-ua.info

Hadiach (Ukrainian: Гáдяч, Russian: Гáдяч, Polish: Hadziacz), sometimes spelled Hadyach, Gadyach, Gadiach, or Hadziacz, is a city of regional significance[1] in Poltava Oblast (province) in the central-east part of Ukraine. Located on the Psel River, the city is an administrative center of the Hadiach Raion (district). Its population is 24,129 (2015 est.)[2].

Overview

Hadiach was granted city rights in 1634. It was a city of Kiev Voivodeship, Cossack Hetmanate, and Poltava Governorate.

At times of Cossack Hetmanate, Hadiach was a residence of Ukrainian Hetman Ivan Briukhovetsky, election of which saw division of the Hetmanate along the Dnieper river (see The Ruin (Ukrainian history)).

Hadiach is one of the main points of interest to Hasidic Jews visiting Ukraine due to the old cemetery that is on the river running through the city, where Shneur Zalman of Liadi is buried.

Book featuring Hadiach

The main characters in Nikolai Gogol's story Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka and His Aunt are from Hadiach (Gadyach in the 1957 translation by David Magarshack).

Residents

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References

  1. ↑ http://www.radyvyliv.info/kremenec-stav-mistom-oblasnogo-znachennya.html
  2. ↑ "Чисельність наявного населення України (Actual population of Ukraine)" (PDF) (in Ukrainian). State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Retrieved 1 July 2016.


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