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Katerynopil
Katerynopil ( uk, Катеринопіль) is an urban-type settlement located in Zvenyhorodka Raion, Cherkasy Oblast (oblast, province) in central Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Katerynopil settlement hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population: Until 1795 it was a village and later a ''miasteczko'' of Kalnebłota, Kalnebłoto, uk, Калниболото, Kalnyboloto), and after Partitions of Poland, parts of Poland were incorporated into the Russian Empire, in 1797 it was renamed to Yekaterinopol (russian: Екатеринополь) after the Russian tsarina Catherine the Great. Until 18 July 2020, Katerynopil served as an administrative center of Katerynopil Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Cherkasy Oblast to four. The area of Katerynopil Raion was merged into Zvenyhorodka Raion. Archaeologists have found remains of the ancient Cucuteni-Trypillian culture, T ...
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Katerynopil Settlement Hromada
Katerynopil ( uk, Катеринопіль) is an urban-type settlement located in Zvenyhorodka Raion, Cherkasy Oblast (province) in central Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Katerynopil settlement hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population: Until 1795 it was a village and later a ''miasteczko'' of Kalnebłota, Kalnebłoto, uk, Калниболото, Kalnyboloto), and after parts of Poland were incorporated into the Russian Empire, in 1797 it was renamed to Yekaterinopol (russian: Екатеринополь) after the Russian tsarina Catherine the Great. Until 18 July 2020, Katerynopil served as an administrative center of Katerynopil Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Cherkasy Oblast to four. The area of Katerynopil Raion was merged into Zvenyhorodka Raion. Archaeologists have found remains of the ancient Trypillya culture on the territory of Katerynopil. Dur ...
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Katerynopil Raion
Katerynopil Raion ( uk, Катеринопільський район) was a raion (district) of Cherkasy Oblast in central Ukraine. Its administrative center was located at the urban-type settlement of Katerynopil. The raion covered an area of . The raion was abolished on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Cherkasy Oblast to four. The area of Chornobai Raion was merged into Zvenyhorodka Raion. The last estimate of the raion population was At the time of disestablishment, the raion consisted of three hromadas: * Katerynopil settlement hromada with the administration in Katerynopil; * Mokra Kalyhirka rural hromada with the administration in the selo of Mokra Kalyhirka; * Yerky settlement hromada with the administration in the urban-type settlement of Yerky. People from Katerynopil Raion * Semen Hryzlo (1887), Ukrainian military and civil activist, organizer of the Free Cossacks. * Viacheslav Chornovil, Ukr ...
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Zvenyhorodka Raion
Zvenyhorodka Raion is a raion (district) of Cherkasy Oblast, central Ukraine. Its administrative centre is located at the city of Zvenyhorodka. Population: On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Cherkasy Oblast was reduced to four, and the area of Zvenyhorodka Raion was significantly expanded. Four abolished raions, Katerynopil, Lysianka, Shpola, and Talne Raions, parts of two more abolished raions, Korsun-Shevchenkivskyi and Horodyshche Raions, as well as the city of Vatutine, which was previously incorporated as a city of oblast significance and did not belong to any raion, were merged into Zvenyhorodka Raion. The January 2020 estimate of the raion population was . Subdivisions Current After the reform in July 2020, the raion consisted of 17 hromadas: * Buzhanka rural hromada with the administration in the selo of Buzhanka, transferred from Lysianka Raion; * Katerynopil settlement hromada with the administration in the ur ...
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Wolf Ladejinsky
Wolf Isaac Ladejinsky (March 15, 1899 – July 3, 1975) was an American Georgist agricultural economist and researcher, serving first in the United States Department of Agriculture, then the Ford Foundation and later the World Bank. He was a key adviser on land reform to the governments of several Asian countries, including Japan from 1945 to 1954 (during the Occupation) as well as Mainland China and later Taiwan under Chiang Kai-shek, South Vietnam from 1955 to 1961 under Ngo Dinh Diem, and countries in Southeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent. His efforts in Japan and Taiwan were a striking success, but later efforts were frustrated. Improving the welfare of Asian farmers through agrarian reform was his goal throughout his long career, earning him praise as "no typical bureaucrat, but an impassioned reformer" . Biography Born into a Jewish family in Katerynopil, Ukraine in 1899, Ladejinsky fled Soviet Ukraine in 1921 as a refugee from the Russian Revolution . He arrived in ...
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Cherkasy Oblast
Cherkasy Oblast ( uk, Черка́ська о́бласть, Cherkaska oblast, ), also referred to as Cherkashchyna ( uk, Черка́щина, ) is an oblast (province) of central Ukraine located along the Dnieper River. The administrative center of the oblast is the city of Cherkasy. The current population of the oblast is Geography With 20,900 km², Cherkasy Oblast is the 18th largest oblast of Ukraine, comprising about 3.5% of the area of the country. The south flowing Dnieper River with the hilly western bank and the plain eastern bank divides the oblast into two unequal parts. The larger western part belongs to the Dnieper Upland. The low-lying eastern part of the oblast used to be subject to the frequent Dnieper flooding before the flow of the river became controlled by multiple dams of Hydroelectric Power Plants constructed along the river in the 20th century. The oblast extends for 245 km from south-west to north-east, and for 150 km from north to south. Th ...
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Semen Hryzlo
Semen Hryhorovych Hryzlo ( uk, Семен Григорович Гризло; 1887? – 3 March 1921) was a Ukrainian military and civil activist, one of the organizers of the Free Cossacks military formations, and a participant in the uprising on the battleship Potemkin (Borets za Svobodu). Biography Semen Hryzlo was born sometime in the late 1880s in the town of Katerynopil, Zvenigorod uyezd, in the Kiev Governorate, and worked as a scribe and teacher at a local rural school. Later Hryzlo was drafted into the Black Sea Fleet, where he served on the battleship Potemkin. For his participation in the Potemkin mutiny of 1905, Hryzlo was exiled to Siberia. At the start of 1917 he returned home and became a member of the Ukrainian Socialist Revolutionary Party. Hryzlo was an active participant in the cultural life of the village of Husakove in the Zvenigorod uyezd. He was one of the first who military organisers of the Free Cossacks, becoming the otaman (military commander) of t ...
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Yuriy Kosiuk
Yuriy Anatoliyovych Kosiuk ( uk, Юрій Анатолійович Косюк; born 27 May 1968) is a Ukrainian billionaire, and CEO of the country's largest agricultural company MHP. Early life Kosiuk was born in Katerynopil, Cherkasy oblast. His mother, Halyna Yukhymivna Kosiuk, still lives there. His father, Anatolii Kosiuk, is buried there. He finished high school with honors (gold medal). Winner of All-Ukrainian Student's Olympiad on Chemistry. In 1985, he entered Kyiv Technological Institute of Food Industry. In 1992, Kosiuk graduated in meat and milk production process engineering from the Kyiv Food Industry Institute under the specialty "Technology of meat and meat products". In 1989, as a 4th year student, he attended training for brokers. Career In 1991, Kosyuk became a broker at Kyiv Commodity Exchange. In the following year — one of the founders of JV "LKB". The company was engaged in import of metal, grain, gas. He invested his first earned $100 thousand in hi ...
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Free Cossacks
Free Cossacks ( uk, Вільне козацтво) were Ukrainian Cossacks that were organized as volunteer militia units in the spring of 1917 in the Ukrainian People's Republic. The Free Cossacks are seen as precursors of the modern Ukrainian national law enforcement organizations such as the National Guard of Ukraine or the Internal Troops of Ukraine. The primary purpose of those militia formations was to provide security and civil order for the local population. The consolidation process of various smaller units started sometime in April near the town of Zvenyhorodka, Kiev Governorate during the local assembly of the Free Cossacks which created the Zvenyhorodka Kosh (battalion). The assembly elected Semen Hryzlo the Kosh Otaman, who became the otaman of Kalnyboloto Kurin (company). Under this title, he was delegated to the 2nd All-Ukrainian Military Congress in Kiev in June 1917. Hryzlo was also one of the organizers of the 1st All-Ukrainian Congress of the Free Cossacks ...
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Catherine The Great
, en, Catherine Alexeievna Romanova, link=yes , house = , father = Christian August, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst , mother = Joanna Elisabeth of Holstein-Gottorp , birth_date = , birth_name = Princess Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst , birth_place = Stettin, Pomerania, Prussia, Holy Roman Empire(now Szczecin, Poland) , death_date = (aged 67) , death_place = Winter Palace, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire , burial_date = , burial_place = Saints Peter and Paul Cathedral, Saint Petersburg , signature = Catherine The Great Signature.svg , religion = Catherine II (born Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst; 2 May 172917 November 1796), most commonly known as Catherine the Great, was the reigning empress of Russia from 1762 to 1796. She came to power following the overthrow of her husband, Peter III. Under her long reign, inspired by the ideas of the Enlightenment, Russia experienced a renaissance of culture and sciences, which led to the founding of m ...
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Myronivsky Hliboproduct
The PrJSC MHP ( uk, ПрАТ МХП; PrJSC «MHP») is a leading international food & agrotech company with headquarters in Kyiv, Ukraine. It is the leading producer of poultry and culinary products in Ukraine and one of the leaders in poultry production and meat processing in the Balkans through its Perutnina Ptuj facilities. The MHP company is also one of the largest grain producers in Ukraine a leading processed-meat producer in Ukraine and the leading biogas producer in Ukraine. The MHP owns and operates a number of food brands, including domestic "Nasha Ryaba", "Apetytna", "Lehko!", "Bashchynskyi", "LaStrava", "Skott Smeat", "RyabChick", "Home style chicken", "Ukrainian Chicken","Kurator", and international food brands "Qualiko", "Sultanah", "Assilah", “Al-Hassanat” and other. Overview The founder and the CEO of MHP is Yuriy Kosiuk. Ukraine MHP has the greatest market share and highest brand recognition for its products. MHP owns and operates each of the key stages ...
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Cossack Host
A Cossack host ( uk, козацьке військо, translit=kozatske viisko; russian: каза́чье во́йско, ''kazachye voysko''), sometimes translated as Cossack army, was an administrative subdivision of Cossack The Cossacks , es, cosaco , et, Kasakad, cazacii , fi, Kasakat, cazacii , french: cosaques , hu, kozákok, cazacii , it, cosacchi , orv, коза́ки, pl, Kozacy , pt, cossacos , ro, cazaci , russian: казаки́ or ...s in the Russian Empire. Earlier the term ''viisko'' (wikt:host#Etymology_2, host) referred to Cossack organizations in their historical territories, most notable being the Zaporozhian Host of Ukrainian Cossacks. Russian Empire Each Cossack host consisted of a certain territory with Cossack settlements that had to provide military regiments for service in the Imperial Russian Army and for border guard, border patrol. Usually the hosts were named after the regions of their location. The ''stanitsa'', or vil ...
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Korsun-Shevchenkivskyi
Korsun-Shevchenkivskyi ( uk, Ко́рсунь-Шевче́нківський, ; pl, Korsuń Szewczenkowski; russian: Корсунь-Шевченковский) is a small city located in Cherkasy Raion of Cherkasy Oblast (province) in central Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Korsun-Shevchenkivskyi urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. The city rests on the banks of the Ros River. Population: History A fortress Korsun was founded in 1032 by the Kievan Rus' prince Yaroslav the Wise and served the protection of Kyiv from nomads from the southern steppe regions. The name of the city comes from the Greek city of Chersones (translated as ''Korsun'') on the Crimean Peninsula. In 1240, Korsun was destroyed by Batu Khan. In 1584, a military base was established in the city. In the early modern times the place belonged to the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, during which another fortress was built and the city received the Magdeburg rights. In 1630, Cossack rebels le ...
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