Kaniv district
Chernecha Hora. Taras Hill or Chernecha Hora is a hill on the bank of the Dnieper near Kaniv in Ukraine, where the remains of the famous Ukrainian poet and artist Taras Shevchenko have been buried since 1861. The original site of Shevchenko's burial is the Smolensky Cemetery in St. Petersburg. The hill formerly belonged to Kaniv's Orthodox...
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Disposition: Kaniv, Cherkasy region
Gaidar Library-Museum. Renowned children’s writer, Arkady Petrovich Gaidar, was born in 1904 and acted as a war correspondent for the newspaper of the Communist Union of Youth, Komsomolskaya Pravda, in WWII (or The Great Patriotic War as it is known in the former Soviet bloc). In the autumn of 1941, when cut off by the enemy forces, he joined...
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Disposition: Kaniv, Lenina street 78
