Everything about Kanev totally explained
Kaniv (;,
translit. Kanev; ) 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
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.
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