{{short description|City in Poltava Oblast, Ukraine}} {{about|the Ukrainian city|the pig breed|Myrhorod pig|Nikolai Gogol's book|Mirgorod (short story collection)}} {{Multiple issues| {{Lead too short|date=July 2022}} {{Expand Ukrainian|topic=geo|date=July 2022}} }} {{Infobox settlement | official_name = Myrhorod | native_name = Миргород | settlement_type = [[City status in Ukraine|City]] | image_skyline = Collage of Myrhorod.jpg | image_caption = '''Top''':A mineral fountain in Vodohraji Zentralnyi Square. Myrhorod Assumption Cathedral, '''Middle''':Myrhorodkurort Resort Spa, '''Bottom''':Myrhorod City hall, Nikolai Gogol Monument in Glory Park (all item from left to right) | image_flag = Flag of Myrhorod.svg | image_shield = UKR Mirgorod COA.svg | pushpin_map = Ukraine Poltava Oblast#Ukraine | coordinates = {{coord|49|58|N|33|36|E|region:UA|display=inline,title}} | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = {{UKR}} | subdivision_type1 = [[Oblasts of Ukraine|Oblast]] | subdivision_name1 = [[Poltava Oblast]] | subdivision_type2 = [[Raions of Ukraine|Raion]] | subdivision_name2 = [[Myrhorod Raion]] | subdivision_type3 = [[Hromada]] | subdivision_name3 = [[Myrhorod urban hromada]] | established_title = Founded | established_date = 1575 | area_total_km2 = 20 | elevation_m = 105 | population_footnotes = <ref name="ua2022estimate"/> | population_total = 37886 | population_as_of = 2022 | website = {{URL|myrgorod.pl.ua}} | image_map = | mapframe = yes | mapframe-zoom = 10 | mapframe-wikidata = yes }}
[[File:Myrhorod04102009.JPG|right|230px|thumb|Hotel ''Myrhorod'']] '''Myrhorod''' ({{langx|uk|Миргород}}, {{IPA|uk|ˈmɪrɦorod|pron|audio=LL-Q8798 (ukr)-Gzhegozh-Миргород.wav}}) is a [[city]] in [[Poltava Oblast]], central [[Ukraine]]. It serves as the [[Capital city|administrative center]] of [[Myrhorod Raion]]. Myrhorod also hosts the administration of [[Myrhorod urban hromada]], one of the [[hromada]]s of Ukraine.<ref name="admreform_2020_myrhorod_city">{{cite web |title=Миргородская городская громада |url=https://gromada.info/ru/obschina/myrgorod/ |publisher=Портал об'єднаних громад України |language=ru}}</ref> It is located on the [[Khorol River]]. Population: {{Ua-pop-est2022|37,886|punct=.}}
==History== The town was founded either in the 12th or 13th century as an eastern border fort of [[Kievan Rus']]. According to legend, the fort was a place of peace negotiations that gave it its name (literally the ''City of Peace'').{{Citation needed|date=April 2010}}
From 1471 to 1667 the town was part of the [[Kiev Voivodeship]] of the [[Grand Duchy of Lithuania]] and the [[Crown of the Kingdom of Poland]].
Myrhorod was first mentioned in chronicles in 1575 when [[Stephen Báthory]] made it a ''regiment city''. According to some{{Who|date=April 2010}} historians, there was an earlier mentioning of the city in 1530, when the city coat of arms were established - yellow cross over an eight-pointed star, which signifies the victory of [[Christianity]] over [[Islam]].{{Citation needed|date=April 2010}} Myrhorod was a [[royal city]] of Poland.
Myrhorod was the regimental base of the Myrhorod [[Cossacks]] who were very active in several [[Ukraine|Ukrainian]] Cossack uprisings, particularly during the peasants'-and-cossacks' revolt of 1638 under the leadership of [[Hetman]] {{ill|Yakiv Ostrianytsia|uk|Яків Острянин}} against the [[Polish nobility]] (''[[szlachta]]''). The [[Myrhorod Regiment|Myrhorod Cossack regiment]] was among the best units in the army of Hetman [[Bohdan Khmelnytsky]] during the [[Khmelnytsky Uprising]] (1648–1654).
After the [[Treaty of Pereyaslav]], the city became an [[uezd]] city, the centre for the Myrhorod regiment. The famous ''[[Sorochyntsy Fair]]'' is located 25 km from Myrhorod.
Since 1912, Myrhorod is known for its underground mineral waters.<ref>Миргород // Большая Российская Энциклопедия / редколл., гл. ред. Ю. С. Осипов. том 20. М., научное издательство "Большая Российская Энциклопедия", 2012. стр.429-430</ref>
A local newspaper is published here since February 1919.<ref>№ 2344. «Вестник Миргородского уездного Совета раб[очих], кресть[янских] и воен[ных] деп[утатов]» // Газеты СССР 1917—1960. Библиографический справочник. том 2. М., «Книга», 1976. стр.107</ref>
Since 1920 Myrhorod is also known as a resort town.<ref>Миргород // Большая Советская Энциклопедия. / редколл., гл. ред. О. Ю. Шмидт. 1-е изд. Т.39. М., ОГИЗ, «Советская Энциклопедия», 1938. ст.487</ref>
In 1999, an English [Language] Resource Center was established at Myrhorod School No. 9, one of four such centres opened in Ukraine with the continuous help from [[Siena College]] since 1995. Other contributors to this project were Americans for Democracy in Ukraine (ADU), Canadian Credit Bank, and Narodna Kasa from [[Montreal]], [[Canada]]. In 1995 a group of Myrhorod teachers, former participants at the seminars conducted by methodologists from Siena College Teacher Training Institute, organized Poltava Oblast's English Teachers' Association. The Myrhorod English Resource Center is supervised by the local Teachers' Association.{{Citation needed|date=April 2010}}
Until 18 July 2020, Myrhorod was designated as a [[City of regional significance (Ukraine)|city of oblast significance]] and did not belong to Myrhorod Raion even though it was the center of the raion. As part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Poltava Oblast to four, the city was merged into Myrhorod Raion.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ.|url=http://www.golos.com.ua/article/333466|access-date=2020-10-03|date=2020-07-18|website=Голос України|language=uk}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Нові райони: карти + склад |date=17 July 2020 |url=https://www.minregion.gov.ua/press/news/novi-rajony-karty-sklad/ |publisher=Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України |language=uk}}</ref>
On April 2, 2022, the invaders fired 3 missiles at infrastructure facilities in the city. The air defense forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine managed to destroy several enemy cruise missiles. However, the shelling damaged the runway of the Myrhorod air base, the airfield infrastructure, and caused a fire at the fuel and lubricants warehouse.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ukrinform.ua/rubric-ato/3446929-raketnij-udar-po-mirgorodu-poskodiv-zlitnu-smugu-j-infrastrukturu-aerodromu.html|title=Ракетний удар по Миргороду пошкодив злітну смугу й інфраструктуру аеродрому|publisher=Укрінформ|date=2022-04-02|accessdate=9 April 2022|archive-date=9 April 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220409170302/https://www.ukrinform.ua/rubric-ato/3446929-raketnij-udar-po-mirgorodu-poskodiv-zlitnu-smugu-j-infrastrukturu-aerodromu.html}}</ref>
On the night of April 8–9, 2022, Russian invaders shelled an infrastructure facility in the city, with two victims reported.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ukrinform.ua/rubric-ato/3452850-rosijski-zagarbniki-obstrilali-mirgorod-e-postrazdali.html|title=російські загарбники обстріляли Миргород, є постраждалі|publisher=Укрінформ|date=2022-04-09|accessdate=9 April 2022|archive-date=9 April 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220409170153/https://www.ukrinform.ua/rubric-ato/3452850-rosijski-zagarbniki-obstrilali-mirgorod-e-postrazdali.html}}</ref>
== Population == === Language === Distribution of the population by native language according to the [[2001 Ukrainian census|2001 census]]:<ref>{{cite web | url=https://socialdata.org.ua/projects/mova-2001/ | title=Рідні мови в об'єднаних територіальних громадах України }}</ref> {| class="standard" |- ! Language ! Percentage |- | [[Ukrainian language|Ukrainian]] | align="right"| 88.26% |- | [[Russian language in Ukraine|Russian]] | align="right"| 11.34% |- | other/undecided | align="right"| 0.4% |}
== Tourist attractions == [[File:Миргород 01.JPG|thumb|Berezovyi Hai park in Myrhorod]] "Myrhorodska" water is described as "slightly mineralised natrium chloride water". It is clear and tastes a little odd, part of the taste being attributable to what is, in effect, table salt. Multiple other dissolved minerals also contribute to the taste and, of course, it is the precise balance of these that is thought to produce the claimed health benefits. For its unique health curative effects, "Myrhorodska" water is recommended by doctors for people suffering from [[gastritis]], [[colitis]] and other disorders of the digestive system, particularly those with a lower level of stomach acidity than is considered average.{{Citation needed|date=April 2010}} It is also widely drunk as table water because it quenches thirst effectively and produces general effects considered to be beneficial to health.
There are several health resorts in the town (at least four). The most extensive and by far the best equipped of these is Myrhorod Resort ({{langx|uk|Миргород Курорт}}). This particular spa consists of four individual sanatoria, each one specialising in one or more distinct areas - diabetes, cardiovascular disease, ENT, gastrointestinal problems, etc. and are open for medical treatments six days a week (Sundays excluded). An integral part of any treatment is one of nine diet regimes, although these are recommended and not enforced.
The whole complex is located right in the middle of the city and is spaced out in a large expanse of sandy woodland with the [[Khorol River]] providing several areas suitable for bathing. It has a musical fountain, (opened in 2010), and, at night, a large illuminated windmill, (opened in 2011), standing close to the main administrative building. Other features include pedaloes, boats, several restaurants and cafés, dancing, live music, rides through the woods in a horse-drawn carriage, a theatre, organised excursions and a large 'water feature' with geese, ducks (including a couple of Mandarins), a large family of terrapins and some beautiful black swans. Elsewhere in the complex is an enclosure with peacocks and hens, including some rather exotic white ones.
There is another sanatorium, 'Rainbow', ({{langx|uk|Санаторій «Радужний»}}), within the same grounds as Myrhorod Resort but with different owners. This is, in the main, frequented by wealthy Ukrainians who prefer what they regard as the 'added security' of a sanatorium that advertises itself as 'élite'. The other two resorts are much further out of town, not so well maintained and equipped and are both rather 'tired' in appearance, both from the inside and out. One of them, the 'Hohol', ({{langx|uk|Гоголь}}) is owned by a Trades Union and seems to derive most of its clientele from its members.
Generally, English is not widely spoken in any of the spas, only Ukrainian, although Myrhorod Resort has occasional visitors from the UK, Germany, France, Dubai, the U.S. and Canada in particular and despite very few foreign visitors speaking more than a couple of words of the local languages, they do seem to be able to get by with some pointing, prodding and smiling.{{Citation needed|date=May 2024}}
== Notable people == *[[Vladimir Borovikovsky]] *[[Boris Grekov]] *[[Davit Guramishvili]] *[[Vasily Kapnist]] *[[Taras Shevchenko]] *[[Hryhorii Skovoroda]]
== Partner towns== Since 1991, Myrhorod administration signed international agreements of mutual cooperation in the spheres of economics, commerce, and culture with three foreign [[Twin towns and sister cities|partner towns]]: * {{flagicon|BUL}} [[Gorna Oryahovitsa]] (1991) * {{flagicon|USA}} [[Randolph, Vermont]] (1999) * {{flagicon|POL}} [[Zgorzelec]] (2007)
== Transport == The city is served by the [[Myrhorod Air Base]] {{airport codes|MXR}}, located at approximately {{convert|5|km}} in the south of the center.
==Gallery== <gallery> File:House of Myrhorod Ceramic College.JPG|House of Myrhorod Ceramic College File:Успенський собор. м.Миргород.JPG|Dormition Church File:A house in Myrhorod.JPG|Old house in Myrhorod File:Церква Іоанна Богослова у Миргороді.JPG|St. John Church, Myrhorod File:MyrhorodChasovnya.JPG|A chapel in Myrhorod File:MyrhorodResortOffice.JPG|Myrhorod Resort office File:Fly-look-mirgorod.jpg|Bird's eye view File:School 5.jpg|School No.5 File:Пам’ятник М.Гоголю на зал. вокзалі ст. Миргород.JPG|Myrhorod railway station </gallery>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20080829024424/http://www.adm-pl.gov.ua/myrgorod Official Myrhorod Raion website.] {{in lang|uk}} *[http://www.myrgorod.pl.ua/ Official Myrhorod city-council website]. {{in lang|uk}} *[http://myrhorod.eu/ Navigation and information on Myrhorod, Sanatorium, Hotels, Maps]. {{in lang|en}} *[http://www.mirgorod.com.ua/ Mirgorod's Portal]. {{in lang|en}} *[http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CM%5CY%5CMyrhorod.htm Myrhorod]. [[Encyclopedia of Ukraine]]. {{in lang|en}} * [http://cobito.ho.ua/cobs/mirgorod/ Navigation and information on Mirgorod, Sanatorium, Hotels, Maps]. {{Poltava Oblast}}
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