{{Short description|Village in central Ukraine}} {{Expand Ukrainian|date=March 2024|topic=geo}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2023}} {{Infobox settlement | settlement_type = Village | name = Moryntsi | native_name = {{lang|uk|Моринці}} | image_shield = Герб Моринців.gif | image_flag = Morynci prapor.png | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = {{Flagu|Ukraine}} | subdivision_type1 = Oblast | subdivision_name1 = Cherkasy Oblast | subdivision_type2 = Raion | subdivision_name2 = Zvenyhorodka Raion | subdivision_type3 = Hromada | subdivision_name3 = Zvenyhorodka urban hromada | pushpin_map = Ukraine Cherkasy Oblast#Ukraine | map_caption = Moryntsi in Cherkasy Oblast | population_total = 1417 | population_footnotes = <ref>{{Cite web| title=Звенигородської міської територіальної громади Черкаської області | language=uk | trans-title=Zvenyhorod urban territorial community of Cherkasy region | url=https://sss-ua.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Sotsialnyy-pasport_Zvenyhorodska_TH.pdf | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241210163446/https://sss-ua.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Sotsialnyy-pasport_Zvenyhorodska_TH.pdf | archive-date=2024-12-10}}</ref> | area_total = | established_date = | code = | coordinates = {{coord|49|15|N|31|0|E|display=inline}} | website = [https://web.archive.org/web/20070313103842/http://gska2.rada.gov.ua:7777/pls/z7502/A005?rdat1=10.11.2005&rf7571=37617 Ukrainian Parliament website]| }}
'''Moryntsi''' ({{langx|uk|Моринці}}) is a village (''selo'') in central Ukraine. It is located in the Zvenyhorodka Raion (district) of the Cherkasy Oblast (province), approximately 35 km from the raion's administrative center, Zvenyhorodka. Moryntsi belongs to Zvenyhorodka urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.<ref name="admreform_2020_zvenyhorodka">{{cite web |title=Звенигородська територіальна громада |url=https://decentralization.gov.ua/newgromada/4823/composition |publisher=decentralization.gov.ua |language=uk}}</ref>
The Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko was born in Moryntsi in 1814. The peasant house in which he was born has been restored and functions as a museum of his life.
==Population== ===Language=== Distribution of the population by native language according to the 2001 census:<ref>{{cite web | language=uk | url=https://socialdata.org.ua/projects/mova-2001/ | title=Рідні мови в об'єднаних територіальних громадах України}}</ref> {| class="standard" |- ! Language ! Number ! Percentage |- | Ukrainian | align="right"| 2 077 ||align="right"| 98.76% |- | Russian | align="right"| 26 || align="right"| 1.24% |- | Total | align="right"| 2 103 || align="right"| 100.00% |}
==History== Remains of the Chernyakhov culture have been found in the area of Moryntsi. The first recorded mention of the settlement was in 1648.
<gallery> File:Шевченко 080.jpg|Monument to mother of Taras Shevchenko File:Шевченко 087.jpg|Welcome sign at the village's entrance File:Шевченко 074.jpg|Another welcome sign at the village's entrance File:Шевченко 082.jpg|Yakym Boiko's hut, grandfather of Taras Shevchenko File:Birth-place of Taras Shevshenko.jpg|Birthplace of Shevchenko </gallery>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Sources== * {{in lang|uk}} (1972). ''Історіа міст і сіл Української CCP – Черкаська область (History of Towns and Villages of the Ukrainian SSR – Cherkasy Oblast)'', Kiev.
==External links== {{Commons category|Moryntsi, Zvenyhorodskyi Raion}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20070311093542/http://www.moryntsi.com.ua/ Moryntsi Website] * [http://www.wumag.kiev.ua/index2.php?param=pgs20041/40 Hiking the Ukrainian countryside] at [http://www.wumag.kiev.ua Welcome to Ukraine Magazine] * [http://www.infoukes.com/shevchenkomuseum/my_destiny.htm Taras Shevchenko's autobiography] at the [http://www.infoukes.com/shevchenkomuseum/museum.htm Taras Shevchenko Museum]
{{Cherkasy Oblast}} {{Authority control}} {{Coord|49|15|7|N|31|0|4|E|scale:30000|display=title}}
Category:Taras Shevchenko Category:Villages in Zvenyhorodka Raion