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The picturesque town of Chyhyryn is the former capital of the Cossack state and the residence of Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytskyi.

Known since the first half of the 16th century as a fortified Cossack wintering place on the Tyasmin River. Chyhyryn was a small border fortress of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the center of the Chyhyryn Starostvo. In 1592, he received Magdeburg law and a coat of arms - 3 arrows.

In the 17th century, the city was owned by the Konetspolsky magnates. Under them, in 1638-1647, one of the centurions of the Chyhyryn regiment was the Cossack Bohdan Khmelnytskyi, who owned the neighboring farm of Subotiv. Due to a conflict with the crown hetman Stanislav Konetspolsky and the Chyhyr ...

The picturesque town of Chyhyryn is the former capital of the Cossack state and the residence of Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytskyi.

Since 1648, Chyhyryn became the capital of the first independent Ukrainian state - the Zaporizhzhia Army - for 30 years. The Chyhyryn fortress was located on Castle Hill, and at its foot - the Lower Town with the fortified residence of Bohdan Khmelnytskyi, two churches, embassies, and a shopping area. During the Ruin period, Chyhyryn was destroyed by the Turks, and the capital was moved to Baturin. The city fell into disrepair, and at the beginning of the 19th century it was distinguished from the surrounding villages only by the stone buildings of populated places. The organization of stone quarries on Castle (Bohdanova) Hill contributed to some revitalization of the economy, as a result of which the remains of Chyhyryn Castle almost completely disappeared (now the Doroshenko bastion has been reconstructed).

In Soviet times, a monument to Khmelnytskyi was erected on the mountain, and recently Chyhyryn began to turn into a popular tourist center. As part of the project of the National Historical and Cultural Reserve "Chyhyryn", the hetman's residence was reconstructed, and a museum complex was created.

The infrastructure of the tourist service is being developed.

Мальовниче містечко Чигирин - колишня столиця козацької держави та резиденція гетьмана Богдана Хмельницького.

Відоме з першої половини XVI століття як укріплена козацька зимівля на річці Тясмин. Чигирин був невеликою прикордонною фортецею Речі Посполитої, центром Чигиринського староства. В 1592 році отримав Магдебурзьке право та герб - 3 стріли.

В XVII столітті містом володіли магнати Конецпольські. При них в 1638-1647 роках одним з сотників Чигиринського полку був козак Богдан Хмельницький, який володів сусіднім хутором Суботів. Через конфлікт з коронним гетьманом Станіславом Конецпольським і чигиринським підстаростою Данилом Чаплинським Хмельницький підняв національно-визвольну війну проти Польщі.

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З 1648 року Чигирин на 30 років став столицею першої незалежної української держави - Війська Запорозького. На Замковій горі розташовувалася Чигиринська фортеця, а біля підніжжя - Нижнє місто з укріпленою резиденцією Богдана Хмельницького, двома храмами, посольствами, торговою площею. У період Руїни Чигирин був зруйнований турками, і столицю перенесли до Батурина. Місто занепало, від навколишніх сіл на початку XIX століття відрізнявся тільки кам'яною забудовою людних місць. Деякому пожвавленню економіки посприяла організація каменоломень на Замковій (Богданової) горі, в результаті чого залишки Чигиринського замку майже повністю зникли (нині реконструйовано бастіон Дорошенка).

У радянські часи на горі був встановлений пам'ятник Хмельницькому, а останнім часом Чигирин став перетворюватися в популярний туристичний центр. В рамках проєкту Національного історико-культурного заповідника "Чигирин" була реконструйована гетьманська резиденція, створено музейний комплекс.

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Tourist attractions and museums of Chyhyryn

Archaeological Museum

Museum / gallery

The Chyhyryn Archaeological Museum is located in a restored one-story building of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The exposition presents objects of material cultures that existed in the Middle Dnipro. In particular, Scythian weapons and armor found on the territory of Scythian settlements in the Kholodny Yar. More than 600 unique exhibits are stored in four exhibition halls.

A monument to Lenin, removed from a pedestal at the foot of Castle Hill in Chyhyryn, has been erected in the courtyard.

Mykhayla Sikorskoho Street, 30

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Bohdan Khmelnytsky Museum

Museum / gallery

The Museum of Bohdan Khmelnytskyi in Chyhyryn is located in the two-story building of the district administration reconstructed in 1995.

The building was built at the beginning of the 19th century at the foot of Castle Hill, where the Lower Town of the Hetman's capital was located.

Museum collections include about 2,000 exhibits. The main place in the exposition is occupied by monuments of the Cossack era: weapons and equipment, objects of decorative and applied art, numismatics, household items. With their help, the material environment in which Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky lived and performed state affairs was recreated.

The pride of the museum is the series of paintings "Hetmans of Ukraine" by the People's Artist of Ukraine Danylo Narbut.

The wings of the building are occupied by the administration of the National Historical and Cultural Reserve of Chyhyryn.

Nearby is the restored Peter and Paul Church, as well as the chapel of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin, in which the remains of 263 Cossacks and city residents who died during the Tatar raids of the 17th century are reburied.

The reconstruction of the complex of the fortified residence of Khmelnytskyi, embassy buildings and other buildings of the hetman's capital, on the basis of which the tourist historical and architectural complex "Residence of Bohdan Khmelnytskyi" was created, is being completed.

Mykhayla Hrushevskoho Street, 26

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Castle (Bohdanova) Hill

Historic area

The remains of the fortifications of Chyhyryn from Cossack times have been preserved on Castle (Bohdanova) Hill in the center of the city.

The small Chyhyryn fortress, founded in the 16th century, served as an outpost of the Commonwealth of Nations, then as a Cossack fortress. The stone fortification measuring 200 by 150 meters was surrounded by walls with towers and bastions. In 1677, a 120,000-strong Turkish army unsuccessfully besieged the Chyhyryn fortress for 3 weeks, and only the following year did the Turks manage to capture it, returning with 200,000 forces.

Later, hetman Ivan Samoylovych's Cossacks recaptured Chyhyryn with the support of the Moscow army of Voivode Hrihoriy Romodanivskyi.

In the 19th century, the fortifications were almost completely dismantled for building materials, when a quarry was built on Castle Hill. Currently, there is a park here, in which there is a reconstructed Doroshenko bastion (XVI-XVII centuries), a stone cross in honor of the defenders of the Chyhyryn bastion (1912), a monument "Kobzar" at the foot and other sculptures. A majestic monument to Bohdan Khmelnytsky 18.6 meters high (1967-82; sculptors Oleksiy Oliynyk, Makar Vronskyi) was erected on the top of the mountain.

At the foot of the mountain is the chapel of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin, in which the remains of Cossacks from the 17th century cemetery are reburied.

The complex is part of the Chyhyryn National Historical and Cultural Reserve. Excursions are conducted by employees of the Bohdan Khmelnytsky Museum, located near the Hetman's residence at the foot of the mountain.

Zamkova Street

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Residence of Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Chyhyryn

Historical and architectural complex "Residence of Bohdan Khmelnytsky"

Palace / manor , Museum / gallery

The historical and architectural complex "Residence of Bohdan Khmelnytsky" in Chyhyryn was built in 2006-2009 as part of the "Golden Horseshoe of Cherkasy Region" program.

Copies of the fortified residence of Khmelnytsky were built on the place where the hetman's capital was located in the middle of the 17th century. The complex consists of defensive walls, an entrance gate with a tower, a hetman's house, a military office, a treasury (treasury), a Cossack guard hut and outbuildings.

Near the residence is the rebuilt defensive church of Saint Peter and Paul. A monument to Metropolitan I. Nelyubovych-Tukalsky, who was the rector of the church in the 17th century, was erected next to it.

Due to the termination of funding, several facilities remain unfinished, and the existing buildings do not have the appropriate interior design and exposition content.

Hetmanska Street

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Holy Kazan Cathedral

Temple

The Holy Kazan Cathedral in Chyhyryn was restored in 2004 on the site of the old church in honor of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God, built in 1888 on the donation of sailors born in Chyhyryn.

The majestic temple with two domes and a bell tower was built of light brown bricks. The walls and vaults were painted with icons of saints. During the Soviet rule, until 1934, the Kazan Cathedral remained the only active temple of Chyhyryn. After the church was closed, the cathedral building was dismantled for building materials.

The Holy Kazan Cathedral was revived thanks to the help of patrons in 2004. The lower temple is consecrated in honor of Saint George.

Bohdana Khmelnytskoho Street, 31

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