Mirgorod

Myrhorod ( uk, Ми́ргород, ) is a city in the Poltava Oblast (province) of central Ukraine. Serving as the administrative center of the Myrhorod Raion (district), the city itself is administratively incorporated as a city of oblast significance and does not belong to the raion. It is located on the Khorol River. According to legend, the fort was a place of peace negotiations that gave it its name (literally the ''City of Peace'').

From 1471 to 1667 the town was part of the Kyiv Voivodeship of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland.

Myrhorod was first mentioned in chronicles in 1575 when Stephen Báthory made it a ''regiment city''. According to some historians, there was an earlier mentioning of the city in 1530, when the city coat of arms were established - yellow cross over an eight-pointed star, which signifies the victory of Christianity over Islam. Myrhorod was a royal city of Poland.

Myrhorod was the regimental base of the Myrhorod Cossacks who were very active in several Ukrainian Cossack uprisings, particularly during the peasants'-and-cossacks' revolt of 1638 under the leadership of Hetman Yakov Ostrianytsia against the Polish nobility (''szlachta''). The Myrhorod Cossack regiment was among the best units in the army of Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky during the Khmelnytsky Uprising (1648–1654).

After the Treaty of Pereyaslav, the city became an uezd city, the centre for the Myrhorod regiment. The famous '' Sorochyntsy Fair'' is located 25 km from Myrhorod.

Since 1912, Myrhorod is known for its underground mineral waters.

A local newspaper is published here since February 1919.

Since 1920 Myrhorod is also known as a resort town.Миргород // Большая Советская Энциклопедия. / редколл., гл. ред. О. Ю. Шмидт. 1-е изд. Т.39. М., ОГИЗ, «Советская Энциклопедия», 1938. ст.487

In 1999, an English anguageResource Center was established at Myrhorod School No. 9, one of four such centres opened in Ukraine with the continuous help from Siena College since 1995. Other contributors to this project were Americans for Democracy in Ukraine (ADU), Canadian Credit Bank, and Narodna Kasa from Montreal, Canada. In 1995 a group of Myrhorod teachers, former participants at the seminars conducted by methodologists from Siena College Teacher Training Institute, organized Poltava Oblast's English Teachers' Association. The Myrhorod English Resource Center is supervised by the local Teachers' Association.

Tourist attractions

"Myrhorodska" water is described as "slightly mineralised natrium chloride water". It is completely clear and tastes a little odd, part of the taste being attributable to what is, in effect, table salt. Many other dissolved minerals also contribute to the taste and, of course, it is the precise balance of these that is thought to produce the claimed health benefits. For its unique health curative effects, "Myrhorodska" water is recommended by doctors for people suffering from gastritis, colitis and other disorders of the digestive system, particularly those with a lower level of stomach acidity than is considered average. It is also widely drunk as table water because it quenches thirst effectively and produces general effects considered to be beneficial to health.

There are several health resorts in the town (at least four). The most extensive and by far the best equipped of these is 'Myrhorod Kurort' (Ukrainian: Миргород Курорт). This particular spa consists of four individual sanatoria, each one specialising in one or more distinct areas - diabetes, cardiovascular disease, ENT, gastrointestinal problems, etc. and are open for medical treatments six days a week (Sundays excluded). An integral part of any treatment is one of nine diet regimes, although these are recommended and not enforced.

The whole complex is located right in the middle of the city and is spaced out in a large expanse of sandy woodland with the Khorol River
*Boris Grekov
*Davit Guramishvili
*Vasily Kapnist
*Taras Shevchenko
*Gregory Skovoroda

Gallery

File:House of Myrhorod Ceramic College.JPG, House of Myrhorod Ceramic College
File:Успенський собор. м.Миргород.JPG, Dormition Church
File:A house in Myrhorod.JPG, Old house in Myrhorod
File:Церква Іоанна Богослова у Миргороді.JPG, St. John Church, Myrhorod
File:MyrhorodChasovnya.JPG, A chapel in Myrhorod
File:MyrhorodResortOffice.JPG, Myrhorod Resort office
File:Fly-look-mirgorod.jpg, Bird's eye view
File:School 5.jpg, School No.5
File:Пам’ятник М.Гоголю на зал. вокзалі ст. Миргород.JPG, Myrhorod railway station

Partner towns

Since 1991, Myrhorod administration signed international agreements of mutual cooperation in the spheres of economics, commerce, and culture with three foreign partner towns:
* Gorna Oryahovitsa (1991)
* Randolph, Vermont (1999)
* Zgorzelec (2007)

Transport

The city is served by the Myrhorod Air Base , located at approximately in the south of the center.

References

External links

Official Myrhorod Raion website.

Official Myrhorod city-council website

Navigation and information on Myrhorod, Sanatorium, Hotels, Maps

Mirgorod's Portal


Encyclopedia of Ukraine.

Navigation and information on Mirgorod, Sanatorium, Hotels, Maps

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Cities in Poltava Oblast
Mirgorodsky Uyezd
Cossack Hetmanate
Spa towns in Ukraine
Cities of regional significance in Ukraine