Hermanivka ( uk, Германівка) is a selo in

Obukhiv Raion Obukhiv Raion () is a raion (district) in Kyiv Oblast of Ukraine. Its administrative center is Obukhiv. Population: . On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Kyiv Oblast was reduced to seven, and ...

(

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Kyiv Oblast Kyiv Oblast ( uk, Ки́ївська о́бласть, translit=Kyïvska oblast), also called Kyivshchyna ( uk, Ки́ївщина), is an oblast (province) in central and northern Ukraine. It surrounds, but does not include, the city of Kyiv, w ...

, south of

Kyiv Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the List of European cities by populat ...

, in central

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. It belongs to

Obukhiv urban hromada Obukhiv () is a city in Kyiv Oblast (province) of Ukraine and the administrative center of Obukhiv Raion. It hosts the administration of Obukhiv urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population: . In 2001, population was 32,776. The ...

, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. The Chervona River flows through the town on its way to confluence with the

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. Hermanivka's history extends back some 900 years. Hermanivka has a small museum opened in 1995 which contains more than 4,000 exhibits related to the history of the town, with substantial coverage of its involvement with the

Zaporizhian Cossacks The Zaporozhian Cossacks, Zaporozhian Cossack Army, Zaporozhian Host, (, or uk, Військо Запорізьке, translit=Viisko Zaporizke, translit-std=ungegn, label=none) or simply Zaporozhians ( uk, Запорожці, translit=Zaporoz ...

. Cossack Hetman and Ukrainian national hero Bohdan Khmelnytsky twice battled

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forces at Hermanivka in 1651. A few years later, in 1658, the

Hadiach Hadiach ( uk, Га́дяч, Hadyach, ; russian: Гáдяч, Gadyach, pl, Hadziacz), sometimes spelled Hadyach, Gadyach, Gadiach, Haditch, or Hadziacz, is a city of regional significance (Ukraine), city of regional significance in Poltava Oblast ...

Treaty between the Cossacks and Poles was declared in Hermanivka by Cossack Hetman

Ivan Vyhovsky Ivan Vyhovsky ( uk, Іван Виговський; pl, Iwan Wyhowski / Jan Wyhowski; date of birth unknown, died 1664), a Ukrainian military and political figure and statesman, served as hetman of the Zaporizhian Host and of the Cossack Hetma ...

.Encyclopedia of Ukraine
/ref> Famous Cossack leader

Severyn Nalyvaiko Severyn (Semeriy) Nalyvaiko (, , in older historiography also ''Semen Nalewajko'', died 21 April 1597) was a leader of the Ukrainian Cossacks who became a hero of Ukrainian folklore. He led the failed Nalyvaiko Uprising for which he was tortured ...

twice visited Hermanivka in the 1590s. Two Cossack

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s - Prokop Vereschak and Stepan Sulima - are buried in Hermanivka. In the 18th century, peasants of Hermanivka, by then a part of the

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, participated actively in the anti-serfdom movement. Hermanivka suffered greatly during the Holodomor famine of 1932–33, losing 20 percent of its population. At present Hermanivka has 890 households, several

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and churches.

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* Villages in Obukhiv Raion {{Kyiv-geo-stub