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Chernihiv, Ukraine - 4 March 2020


Welcome to Ukraine! Great opportunity t see the Ukrainian daily life as it as. Today we will go to Chernihiv - an interesting historical destination in Ukraine! While watching this film you will transfer to the Monument to Afghan warriors (0:24), Chernihiv State Universal Scientific Library named after V. G. Korolenko (3:19), Chernihiv TV tower (5:33), Hotel “Ukraine” (6:59), light-musical fountain(18:19), Stele and Eternal Flame (20:06), (20:33), City Council House (23:02), Chernihiv Women's High School (24:34), Chernihiv National Technical University (30:16), the palace of Grigory Glibov (32:16) and more! In a short time, you will walk along local parks covered golden fields of fall leaves, discover local main squares, enjoy nice fountains, see into the old architecture from ancient ages. Admire the beautiful view of Desna River! This film is not only about local destinations, its about TRUE EMOTIONS! Tens of children filled this film with smiles, funny grimaces, and carefree joy! Enjoy every minute as a child! Dive into a calm walking tour filled with beautiful urban scenes and positive emotions!

Chernihiv (Ukrainian: Чернігів, IPA: [tʃerˈn(j)iɦiu̯]), also known as Chernigov (Russian: Черни́гов; Polish: Czernihów, IPA: [tʂɛrˈɲixuf]), is a city and municipality (Chernihiv urban hromada) in northern Ukraine, which serves as the administrative center of the Chernihiv Oblast (province), and Chernihiv Raion (district) within the oblast. Chernihiv's population is 285,234 (2021 est.)

Chernihiv stands on the Desna River 150 km (93 mi) to the north-north-east of Kyiv.

The area was served by Chernihiv Shestovitsa Airport, and during the Cold War it was the site of Chernigiv air base.

Chernihiv was first mentioned (as Черниговъ (Chernigov)) in the Rus'–Byzantine Treaty (907), but the time of establishment is not known. According to the items uncovered by archaeological excavations of a settlement which included artifacts from the Khazar Khaganate, it seems to have existed at least in the 9th century. Towards the end of the 10th century, the city probably had its own rulers. It was there that the Black Grave, one of the largest and earliest royal mounds in Eastern Europe, was excavated in the 19th century.

n the southern portion of the Kievan Rus' the city was the second by importance and wealth.[4] From the early 11th century it was the seat of the powerful Grand Principality of Chernigov, whose rulers at times vied for power with Kievan Grand Princes, and often overthrew them and took the primary seat in Kiev for themselves.

The grand principality was the largest in Kievan Rus and included not only the Severian towns but even such remote regions as Murom, Ryazan and Tmutarakan. The golden age of Chernigov, when the city population peaked at 25,000, lasted until 1239 when the city was sacked by the hordes of Batu Khan, which started a long period of relative obscurity.

The area fell under the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in 1353. The city was burned again by Crimean khan Meñli I Giray in 1482 and 1497 and in the 15th to 17th centuries it changed hands several times between Lithuania, Muscovy (1408–1420 and from 1503), and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1618–1648), where it was granted Magdeburg rights in 1623 and in 1635 became a seat of Chernihiv Voivodeship in the Lesser Poland Province.

The area's importance increased again in the middle of the 17th century during and after the Khmelnytsky Uprising. In the Hetman State Chernihiv was the city of deployment of Chernihiv Cossack regiment (both a military and territorial unit of the time).

Under the 1667 Treaty of Andrusovo the legal suzerainty of the area was ceded to Tsardom of Russia, with Chernihiv remaining an important center of the autonomous Cossack Hetmanate. With the abolishment of the Hetmanate, the city became an ordinary administrative center of the Russian Empire and a capital of local administrative units. The area in general was ruled by the Governor-General appointed from Saint Petersburg, the imperial capital, and Chernihiv was the capital of local namestnichestvo (province) (from 1782), Malorosiyskaya or Little Russian (from 1797) and Chernigov Governorate (from 1808).

According to the census of 1897, in the city of Chernihiv there were about 11,000 Jews out of the total population of 27,006. Their primary occupations were industrial and commercial. Many tobacco plantations and fruit gardens in the neighborhood were owned by Jews. There were 1,321 Jewish artisans in Chernihiv, including 404 tailors and seamstresses, but the demand for artisan labor was limited to the town. There were 69 Jewish day-laborers, almost exclusively teamsters. But few were engaged in the factories.

During World War II, Chernihiv was occupied by the German Army from 9 September 1941 to 21 September 1943. The Germans operated a Nazi prison and a forced labour battalion for Jews in the city.

The Statue of Lenin on Myru Avenue was toppled on February 21, 2014, as part of the demolitions of the statues of Lenin in Ukraine.

Until 18 July 2020, Chernihiv was designated as a city of oblast significance and did not belong to Chernihiv 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 Chernihiv Oblast to five, the city was merged into Chernihiv Raion.

In 25 February 2022, during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the city was under siege by the Russian Armed Forces according to the Russian Ministry of Defense, in its first battle since the Second World War.

Chernihiv 1 march 2022

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You are absolutely right Ron, nobody supoported Poland during the September 1939 Nazi German/Austrian invasion from the West and Soviet Russian invasion from the East. The French and British allies abandoned Poland. Later the Poles fought in France against the invading Germans in 1940 and for the British allies on the Western Front liberating France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany.