Kaniv

Infobox Settlement
official_name = Kaniv
native_name = Канів
nickname =


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image_caption = The Heorhiivskyi (Uspenskyi) Cathedral in Kaniv.


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map_caption = Map of Ukraine of Kaniv within Cherkasy Oblast.
subdivision_type = Country
Oblast
Raion
subdivision_name = UKR
established_title = First mentioned
established_date = 1078
established_title1 = City rights
established_date1 = 1796
leader_title = Mayor
leader_name = Vasyl Vasylovych Kolomiiets
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area_total_km2 = 17.42
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population_total = 26735|population_footnotes=
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pushpin_map_caption =Location of Kaniv
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latm=45
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longd=31
longm=28
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elevation_m = 101
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postal_code = 19000—19009
area_code = +380 4736
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blank1_info = Viersen|blank1_name=Sister cities|, Sonoma, Lambersart
website = [http://www.kaniv.ck.ua kaniv.ck.ua]
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Kaniv ( _uk. Канів; _ru. Канев, translit. "Kanev"; _pl. Kaniów) is a city located in the Cherkasy Oblast (province) in central Ukraine. The city rests on the Dnieper River, and is also one of the main inland river ports on the Dnieper. The current estimated population is 26,426 (as of 2005).

Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko, considered a founder of Ukrainian literature, is buried on a hill overlooking the Dnieper in Kaniv, and the city houses a memorial museum dedicated to him.

Industry in the city includes: Kaniv's hydro-electric power plant located on the Kaniv Reservoir on the Dnieper, and the a fruit and vegetable, condiments factory, and a large milk and cheese factory.

Administrative status

Kaniv is the administrative center of the Kanivskyi Raion (district). However, the city is a city of oblast subordinance, thus being subject directly to the oblast authorities rather to the raion administration housed within the city itself.

History

[
Russian Empire (1852).]

The town was first mentioned in a chronicle of 1149, although some believe that it had been founded as early as the 10th century. In the Middle Ages it was located on the Road from Varangians to Greeks. Initially part of Kievan Rus', in the fourteenth century it was annexed by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. It was sacked by the Ottoman Turks in 1458.

In 1569, Kaniv came under the rule of Poland, and it was also one of the centers of Cossack culture and military life. In 1600, it received the Magdeburg Rights, but the city's prosperity was halted by successive plagues, fires, and Cossack unrest. During The Deluge the town was captured by the forces of Bohdan Khmelnytsky in 1648. In 1768, it was captured by one of the leaders of the Koliyivschyna, Maksym Zalizniak. As an effect of a pogrom, most of the local szlachta and Jews were killed. Following the Second Partition of Poland the town with large parts of other territories came under the control of the Russian Empire. In 1787, Kaniów was visited by Catherine II. She met there with Polish king Stanisław August Poniatowski.

During the later stages of the Great War, on May 11, 1918, the town was the seat of the Battle of Kaniów, in which the forces of the 2nd Polish Corps and the Polish Legions under Józef Haller de Hallenburg failed to break through the Austro-German lines to the Russian side. During the Second World War, Kaniv was a site of a spectacularly unsuccessful drop of Soviet paratroopers. In 1978, Oleksa Hirnyk burned himself to death in protest of Russification in Kaniv, on a hill near Shevchenko's tomb. In 2007, he was honored as a Hero of Ukraine.

ister Cities

References

* (1972) "Icтopia мicт i ciл Укpaїнcькoї CCP - Черкаськa область (History of Towns and Villages of the Ukrainian SSR - Cherkasy Oblast)", Kyiv. uk icon
* [http://encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?AddButton=pagesKOKorsun6Shevchenkivskyi.htm Korsun-Shevchenkivskyi] in the [http://encyclopediaofukraine.com Encyclopedia of Ukraine]

External links

* [http://www.kaniv.ck.ua/main.php kaniv.ck.ua] — Official website of Kaniv uk icon
* [http://www.kaniv.net kaniv.net] — Unofficial site uk icon
* [http://encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?AddButton=pagesKAKaniv.htm Kaniv] in the [http://encyclopediaofukraine.com Encyclopedia of Ukraine]
* [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0JAP/is_4_12/ai_112321381 Details about paratroop operations in 1943 that included battle in Kanev]
* [http://klymenko.data-tec.net/Other_World/Ukraine.Kaniv.htm klymenko.data-tec.net] — Kaniv photogalleryuk icon/ru icon