Katerynopil ( uk, Катеринопіль) is an

urban-type settlement Urban-type settlementrussian: посёлок городско́го ти́па, translit=posyolok gorodskogo tipa, abbreviated: russian: п.г.т., translit=p.g.t.; ua, селище міського типу, translit=selyshche mis'koho typu, ab ...

located in

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 o ...

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 ...

(

province A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or sovereign state, state. The term derives from the ancient Roman ''Roman province, provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire ...

) in central

Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...

. It hosts the administration of

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. ...

, one of the

hromada A hromada ( uk, територіальна громада, lit=territorial community, translit=terytorialna hromada) is a basic unit of administrative division in Ukraine, similar to a municipality. It was established by the Government of Ukra ...

s of Ukraine. Population: Until 1795 it was a village and later a ''

miasteczko A ( or (), () was a historical type of urban settlement similar to a market town in the former Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. After the partitions of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth at the end of the 18th-century, these settlements became wi ...

'' of Kalnebłota, Kalnebłoto, uk, Калниболото, Kalnyboloto), and after parts of Poland were incorporated into the

Russian Empire The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended the Great Northern War. ...

, in 1797 it was renamed to Yekaterinopol (russian: Екатеринополь) after the Russian

tsarina Tsarina or tsaritsa (also spelled ''csarina'' or ''csaricsa'', ''tzarina'' or ''tzaritza'', or ''czarina'' or ''czaricza''; bg, царица, tsaritsa; sr, / ; russian: царица, tsaritsa) is the title of a female autocratic ruler (mona ...

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 Anhal ...

. Until 18 July 2020, Katerynopil served as an administrative center of

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 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. During the

Khmelnytsky Uprising The Khmelnytsky Uprising,; in Ukraine known as Khmelʹnychchyna or uk, повстання Богдана Хмельницького; lt, Chmelnickio sukilimas; Belarusian language, Belarusian: Паўстанне Багдана Хмяльніц ...

in 1648–1654, Kalnyboloto was a

sotnia Sotnia (Ukrainian and ) was a military unit and administrative division in many Slavic countries. Sotnia, deriving back to 1948, has been used in a variety of contexts in both Ukraine and Russia to this day. It is a helpful word to create sh ...

town of the Korsun

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 Cossac ...

. On March 5, 1923, Katerynopil was given the status of an administrative center of its surrounding district.

People from Katerynopil

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 o ...

(c. 1887–1921), Ukrainian military and civil activist, organizer of the

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 ...

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 ...

(1899–1975), a prominent American economist, mastermind of the land reform of 1946 in Japan *

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 ...

(born 1968), Ukrainian billionaire, CEO of MHP

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* {{Authority control Urban-type settlements in Zvenyhorodka Raion Populated places established in 1568 1568 establishments in Europe