Hadiach

Hadiach Гадяч
City of regional significance
Cathedral Square in Hadiach
Flag Coat of arms
Hadiach Location of Hadiach
Coordinates: 50°22′00″N 34°0′0″E / 50.36667°N 34.00000°ECoordinates: 50°22′00″N 34°0′0″E / 50.36667°N 34.00000°E
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Poltava Oblast
Raion	Hadiach Raion
Founded	1643^1
Government
• Mayor	Tetyana Savchenko
Area
• Total	17.78 km^2 (6.86 sq mi)
Elevation	132 m (433 ft)
Population (2015)
• Total	24,129
• Density	1,400/km^2 (4,000/sq mi)
Time zone	EET (UTC+2)
• Summer (DST)	EEST (UTC+3)
Postal code	36000—36499
Area code(s)	+380 532
Website	gadiach.osp-ua.info

Hadiach (Ukrainian: Гáдяч, Russian: Гáдяч, Polish: Hadziacz), sometimes spelled Hadyach, Gadyach, Gadiach, or Hadziacz, is a city of regional significance^[1] in Poltava Oblast (province) in the central-east part of Ukraine. Located on the Psel River, the city is an administrative center of the Hadiach Raion (district). Its population is 24,129 (2015 est.)^[2].

Overview

Hadiach was granted city rights in 1634. It was a city of Kiev Voivodeship, Cossack Hetmanate, and Poltava Governorate.

At times of Cossack Hetmanate, Hadiach was a residence of Ukrainian Hetman Ivan Briukhovetsky, election of which saw division of the Hetmanate along the Dnieper river (see The Ruin (Ukrainian history)).

Hadiach is one of the main points of interest to Hasidic Jews visiting Ukraine due to the old cemetery that is on the river running through the city, where Shneur Zalman of Liadi is buried.

Book featuring Hadiach

The main characters in Nikolai Gogol's story Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka and His Aunt are from Hadiach (Gadyach in the 1957 translation by David Magarshack).

Residents

• Mykhailo Drahomanov (1841-1895), political theorist, economist, historian, philosopher, and ethnographer
• Olena Pchilka, mother of Lesya Ukrayinka and a sister of Drahomanov

Gallery

• 
  The city of Cossack Pride Hadiach welcomes you
• 
  River Psel under a bridge in Hadiach
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  Dormition Cathedral and belfry in Hadiach (Ukrainian Orthodox Church)
• 
  City concert hall

See also

• Treaty of Hadiach
• Hadiach Regiment and Zinkiv Regiment

References

1. http://www.radyvyliv.info/kremenec-stav-mistom-oblasnogo-znachennya.html
2. "Чисельність наявного населення України (Actual population of Ukraine)" (PDF) (in Ukrainian). State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Retrieved 1 July 2016.

External links

• Unofficial site of Gadyach
• Hadiach in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine
• "Gadyach" (news of Gadyach, events, weather, history. All in English, Ukrainian and Russian language)