Borzna Борзна |
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Coordinates: 51°15′00″N 32°36′00″E / 51.25°N 32.6°ECoordinates: 51°15′00″N 32°36′00″E / 51.25°N 32.6°E | |||
Country | Ukraine | ||
Oblast | Chernihiv | ||
Founded | 16th century | ||
Area | |||
- Total | 11.43 km2 (4.4 sq mi) | ||
Population (January 1, 2001) | |||
- Total | 11,707 |
Borzna (Ukrainian: Борзна) is a city in Chernihiv Oblast (province) of northern Ukraine and an administrative center of Borznyanskyi Raion (Borzna District). It is home to 11,707 people, according to the 2001 census.
The city derives its name from the river it lies on. Although Borzna has no railway (the nearest railway stations being Doch (14 km/9 mi) with north-south routes and Plysky (20 km/12 mi) with west-east routes), it is located next to an international highway connecting Kiev and Moscow (E101). Chernihiv is about 100 km (62 mi) away.
While the city benefits from vast farming lands surrounding it, it also has a metalwork and electronic chips plant, a brick factory, a lumber-processing factory, and a food industry[1]. Among its educational institutions, there is an Agricultural Technical College, Panteleimon Kulish Gymnasium, and Khrystyna Alchevska secondary school, as well as a musical school. Borzna has a concert hall (The House of Culture), Museum of Oleksandr Sayenko[2] (an original artist who, despite being deaf and dumb, gained prominence by inventing his own technique of creating pictures out of straw), Museum of History, and an historical-memorial complex Hannyna Pustyn (commemorating a famous Ukrainian writer and activist of the 19th century Panteleimon Kulish and a peasant life writer Hanna Barvinok[3], husband and wife) which is a ten-minute drive away in the nearby village of Motronivka.
The local newspaper the Visti Borznyanshchyny ("The Borzna Herald") is published twice a week. The local community also operates a radio station which regularly produces programs about local events.
Notable people
- Khrystyna Alchevska - educator, activist
- Mykhailo Antonovskyi - historian, publisher, graduate of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
- Mykola Hladkyi - linguist
- Halyna Kalchenko - sculptress
- Semen Paliy - Ukrainian Cossack polkovnyk (colonel)
- Ivan Plyushch - Ukrainian politician and former Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament)
- Pavlo Polubotok - Acting Hetman of the Cossack era of Ukraine
- Oleksandr Sayenko - artist, decorator
- Danylo Velanskyi - medical doctor, philosopher
- Yevhen Votchal - academic, botanist
- Viktor Zabila - poet
References
- ^ http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkPath=pages\B\O\Borzna.htm Encyclopedia of Ukraine
- ^ http://blog.meta.ua/users/@631916/cat/ukrajina/ Oleksandr Sayenko
- ^ http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/pages/B/A/BarvinokHanna.htm Hanna Barvinok
External links
- Official Borzna District Website [1]
- Borzna District Information [2] (Ukrainian)
- Borzna District Council [3] (Ukrainian)
- David S. DuVal. (2004). Ukrainian Soul: The Story Of The Family Volkoff From Borzna. Lincoln, NE: iUniverse. - 193 p. ISBN 0-595-31967-X [4]
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