Putivl
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Putyvl Пути́вль |
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Putyvl, Prokudin-Gorskiy, start of 1900s
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| Coordinates: 51°19′N 33°52′E / 51.317°N 33.867°ECoordinates: 51°19′N 33°52′E / 51.317°N 33.867°E | |||
| Country | Ukraine | ||
| Oblast | Sumy | ||
| Founded | 989 | ||
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| • Total | 8.5 km2 (3.3 sq mi) | ||
| Elevation | 177 m (581 ft) | ||
| Population (January 1, 2004) | |||
| • Total | 20,000 | ||
Putyvl, Putyvl' or Putivl (Ukrainian: Пути́вль, Putyvl’, Russian: Пути́вль, Putivl’) is a city in north-east Ukraine, in Sumy Oblast. Currently about 20,000 people live in Putyvl.
One of the original Siverian towns, Putyvl was first mentioned as early as 1146 as an important fortress contested between Chernigov and Novgorod-Seversky principalities of Kievan Rus. The song of Yaroslavna on the walls of Putyvl is the emotional culmination of the medieval Lay of Igor's Campaign and Alexander Borodin's opera Prince Igor.
After the Battle of Vedrosha in 1500, Putyvl was ceded to Muscovite Russia. During the Time of Troubles, the town became the centre of Ivan Bolotnikov's uprising and briefly a base for the False Dmitry I forces. It was occupied by Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth between 1607 and 1619.
Putyvl was part of Kursk guberniya of the Russian Empire prior to the Bolshevik Revolution. It was part of Ukrainian SSR in 16 October 1925. During the Second World War Soviet partisans led by Sydir Kovpak started their guerrilla war against the Germans in the forests all over the Northern Ukraine. It was under German occupation between 10 September 1941 and 3 September 1943.
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