Velyki Sorochyntsi
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Velyki Sorochyntsi Великі Сорочинці |
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Location of Sorochinskiy Fair
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 Velyki Sorochyntsi
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| Coordinates: 50°03′12″N 33°57′0″E / 50.05333°N 33.95000°ECoordinates: 50°03′12″N 33°57′0″E / 50.05333°N 33.95000°E | |||
| Country | Ukraine | ||
| Oblast | Poltava Oblast | ||
| Raion | Myrhorod Raion | ||
| Founded | 1620s | ||
| Population (Ukrainian Census, 2001) | |||
| • Total | 4,231 | ||
| Postal code | 37645 | ||
| Area code(s) | +380 5355 | ||
Velyki Sorochyntsi (Ukrainian: Великі Сорочинці, Russian: Вели́кие Соро́чинцы or Больши́е Соро́чинцы, translit. Velikiye Sorochintsy or Bol'shiye Sorochintsy; formerly referred to simply as Sorochyntsi) is a village in the Poltava Oblast (province) of central Ukraine, formerly a town. It can be translated as the Grand Sorochyntsi. The village is located in the Myrhorod Raion (district) of the oblast, and is famous as both the birthplace of the great writer Nikolai Gogol (April 1 [O.S. March 20] 1809) and the location of the Sorochyntsi Fair. In 1925–31 the town was called Neronovychi after the Bolshevik activist Yevhen Neronovych, who was executed by Ukrainian military forces in the town in 1918.
The population as of 2013 was estimated at 3,809, down from 4,231 in the 2001 Census.
The name of the village came either from the Slavic word Soroka (magpie) or Sorochka (shirt). There are many legends explaining the name of the village as the location of the Magpie's kingdom or of some magical shirt.
The earliest recorded mention of the settlement (sloboda) is in the 1620s. In 1646, the sloboda became the domain of a Polish Prince from the Wiśniowiecki family. By the end of the 17th and beginning of the 18th centuries, the sloboda was the location of a Cossack district (sotnia) government. Born here, the future Hetman of Zaporizhian Host Danylo Apostol in 1670 founded the Sorochynski Mikhailovsky Monastery. He went on to build the Ukrainian Baroque Church of the Transfiguration (Ukrainian: Преображенська церква, translit. Preobrazhens'ka tsekrva) in 1732, also in Sorochyntsi, where he was buried two years later. Nikolai Gogol was later baptized in this same church.
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