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35-528: Pereiaslav is a historical city in Boryspil Raion , Kyiv Oblast , central Ukraine . It is located near the confluence of the Alta and Trubizh rivers some 95 km (59.03 mi) southeast of the capital Kyiv . It was one of the key regional centers of power during the medieval period and served as the capital of a principality . Pereiaslav hosts the administration of Pereiaslav urban hromada, one of

70-620: A Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi branch of the Kyiv State Pedagogical Institute, HSUP continued the ancient educational traditions of Pereiaslav. The roots of the University go back to the first half of the 18th century, namely, to 2.10.1738, when a collegium was founded in Pereiaslav. In 1808, after the reform of religious education institutions, Pereiaslav Collegium was reorganized into a seminary, which continued

105-716: A thirteen-and-a-half year truce , signed on 9 February [ O.S. 30 January] 1667 between the Tsardom of Russia and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth , which had fought the Russo-Polish War since 1654 over the territories of modern-day Ukraine and Belarus . Afanasy Ordin-Nashchokin (for Russia) and Jerzy Chlebowicz (for the Commonwealth) signed the truce in the village of Andrusovo not far from Smolensk . Representatives of

140-540: Is a museum dedicated to him. Additional Comments: ...After the 1654 Pereiaslav Council, the remnants of the Pereiaslav Jewish community became patronized by Russia. The left-bank Jews were allowed to stay in their homes, but the townspeople of Pereiaslav presented to Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich the law of 1620 limiting the rights of Jews, which was confirmed by the Tsar. Information about Pereiaslav Jews disappears from

175-504: Is operating there. On 30 June – 2 July 1881 there was a pogrom against the Jews in Pereiaslav. Among the victims were Jews who had fled here after the Kyiv pogrom. From Pereiaslav, the unrest spread to the surrounding areas. In June 1919, Ataman Zeleniy arranged a pogrom in Pereiaslav and 20 people were killed. By 1921, a Jewish 'self-defense' organisation had been founded in Pereiaslav. In 1926,

210-811: The Cossack Hetmanate were not allowed. The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Tsardom of Russia agreed on the following terms: The transfer of Kiev to the Russian tsardom had far-reaching consequences. Kiev, situated in the Greek-Orthodox part of the Lithuanian Grand Duchy before the Union of Lublin (1569) and in the Polish kingdom thereafter, was the seat of the orthodox metropolitan, who, despite being formally placed under

245-520: The hromadas of Ukraine. Its population is approximately 26,273 (2022 estimate). Possessing more than 20 museums, Pereiaslav is often described as a "living museum", and was granted the status of History and Ethnography Reserve  [ uk ] . The current name is implemented by the Verkhovna Rada on 30 September 2019 to reinstate its historical name. The name of Pereiaslav in other languages are: In 1152, Yuri Dolgorukiy founded

280-894: The steppes of what is now southern Ukraine. The city was the capital of the Principality of Pereyaslavl from the mid-11th century until its demolition by the Tatars in 1239, during the Mongol invasions . During the 14th century, Pereiaslav was annexed by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania . Since 1471 it was part of the Kiev Voivodeship , which in 1569 became part of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland . In 1585, Polish King Stephen Báthory granted Perejasław Magdeburg city rights . It

315-615: The Boryspil raion operates a musical school for children (in the village of Schastlyve ), a school of art (in the village of Velyka Oleksandrivka ) Also, a couple of educational schools operate on the territory of the raion: A festival ( Argo and Kyiv's fall ; Russian : Агро и Киевская осень ), is held two times a year within the village of Chubynske . Within the village of Revne , is a reserved retirement village for veterans of wars. In addition, living quarters are reserved for children of homeless children and children of poor families in

350-764: The III level of accreditation by the decision of the State Accreditation Commission in 2000. In 2002 by a decree of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi Hryhorii Skovoroda State Pedagogical University was established on the basis of the Institute. In 2004 and 2010, University was accredited at the IV level, in 2005 it was renamed to SHEI “Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi Hryhorii Skovoroda State Pedagogical University”, and on 14 July 2021, due to

385-523: The Jewish community was flourishing despite the persecution and there were 3,590 Jews in Pereiaslav. At this time, there were 8 houses of study ( batei midrash ), 3 different Jewish schools, and 26 kosher butchers. During autumn 1941, on the outskirts of the city (the present territory of the Altitsky cemetery), 800 Jewish residents of Pereiaslav were shot. According to elderly residents, the exact date of

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420-472: The King ordered his commissioners to consider the other rights of Jews. Three years later, an agreement was signed allowing the Jews to enjoy all of the rights and liberties of urban citizens. This agreement was confirmed by King Sigismund. Pereiaslav Jews were among the first to be killed during the first Khmelnytskyi uprising . Chronicler Nathan Hannover writes: "And a lot of holy communities, based not far from

455-742: The Roman pope since the Union of Brest (1596), retained authority over the Orthodox population in Poland-Lithuania's eastern territories. Prior to Andrusovo, Kiev had been an orthodox counterweight to the Moscow patriarchate, founded in 1589, and since the metropolitanship of Petro Mohyla hosted the Mohyla Academy , that opened orthodoxy to Western influence. The transfer of Kiev to Russia came only days after patriarch Nikon , who reformed

490-547: The Russian simfonia (the traditional balance of ecclesiastical and secular power) by a more theocratic model, was banned upon his success, effectively shifting the power balance to the Romanov tsars ruling Russia since the end of the Great Smuta (1613). As the see of the metropolitan, Kiev furthermore granted Moscow influence on the Orthodox population in Poland-Lithuania. "Protection" of the Orthodox population thus became

525-733: The Soviet government, keen to glorify the Treaty of Pereiaslav as the ground for Ukraine's unification with Russia, renamed Pereiaslav to Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi in October 1943 to stress Bohdan Khmelnytskyi's role of that event. Later, the otherwise obscure town was established, as a dedicated museum and tourism center. By the request of the Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi City Council, the Ukrainian parliament reinstated

560-412: The city of Pereslavl-Zalessky in the north-east of Kievan Rus . To distinguish the two cities, Pereiaslav was sometimes called Pereiaslav-Ruskyi in the 12th and 13th centuries. It is also known as Pereyaslavl-Yuzhnyy ( Russian : Переяславль-Южный , lit.   'Pereyaslavl-Southern'). Pereiaslav played a significant role in the history of Ukraine. It was mentioned for the first time in

595-408: The city to its historic name Pereiaslav in October 2019. Until 18 July 2020, Pereiaslav was incorporated as a city of oblast significance and served as the administrative center of Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi Raion , even though it did not belong to the raion. In July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Kyiv Oblast to seven, the city of Pereiaslav

630-458: The district, among them 9,857 Jews, including in Pereiaslav - 14,614 residents, of whom 5,754 were Jews. In 1910, three Jewish schools operated in Pereiaslav: first grade primary boys school, a private boys school, and a Talmud-Torah. At the end of the 19th century, the synagogue was built, it survived the war and has preserved until now – the factory of woven products named after B. Khmelnitsky

665-646: The educational traditions of the region, including teacher training. By the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine No. 949 of 24 November 1993, Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi State Pedagogical Institute was established on the basis of the Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi branch of the Drahomanov Ukrainian State Pedagogical University, named after H. S. Skovoroda in 1994 and recognized as accredited at

700-590: The establishment of the Cossack Hetmanate in left-bank Ukraine subject to the Tsardom of Russia , and later to the Russo-Polish War (1654-1667) . The town was known as Pereiaslav at that time, and later as Pereiaslav-Poltavskyi . According to the Truce of Andrusovo in 1667, Pereiaslav became part of Russia. During World War II (part of which is known as the Great Patriotic War in USSR and Russia),

735-431: The evening promised». Famous Yiddish author Sholom Aleichem was born in Pereiaslav in 1859. He spent his childhood in the town of Voronkiv, but when the family became impoverished he returned to Pereiaslav, where he studied at the Russian gymnasium until 1876. In 1879 he again returned to Pereiaslav for several years. The town is described in detail in his autobiographical prose. In the town's 'ethnographic reserve', there

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770-405: The number of raions of Kyiv Oblast was reduced to seven, and the area of Boryspil Raion was significantly expanded. Two abolished raions, Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi and Yahotyn Raions , as well as the cities of Boryspil and Pereiaslav , which were previously incorporated as cities of oblast significance and did not belong to the raion, were merged into Boryspil Raion. The area of the raion before

805-450: The place of battle and unable to flee, like the holy communities of Pereiaslav, Baryshivka, Pyryatin, Borispil, Lubny, Lokhvitsa and the surrounding communities, died as martyrs of various cruel and heinous kinds of slaughter..." («Yeven metsula», p. 94). Another chronicler, Rabbi Meir of Schebrzheschina, provides a detailed story: «The sacred community of Pereiaslav had drunk from the cup of bitterness several times; perplexed Jews fled to

840-421: The previous renaming of the city and in order to simplify the name of the institution in the established European tradition of naming higher education institutions, it received a new official name - Hryhorii Skovoroda University in Pereiaslav. The most significant landmarks of Pereiaslav are: Pereiaslav is twinned with: Boryspil Raion On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine,

875-523: The raion include: the left tributaries of the Dnieper : Pavlivka, Mlen, Ikva, and the right tributaries of the Trubizh River : Bochechky, Karan', Vohnyscha, Krasylivka, Al'ta, and Il'tytsia. All of the raion's rivers flow through the low-elevation territory, making all of the rivers flow more slowly. The rivers take their sources from winter snowfalls and seasonal rains. On the southernmost border of

910-593: The raion is the Kaniv Reservoir , which provides electric supply to nearby areas. Forests cover about 150 km of the raion's 146 km area. The Boryspil raion's total population is 53,483, which includes 23,400 males, and 30,080 females. The number of pensioners totals 16,300, about 33.6% of the total population of the raion. The density of the raion's population is 364 p/km . The national ethnic composition is: Ukrainians (95.2%), Russians (3.8%), Belarusians (0.3%) and Moldovans (0.1%). Within

945-543: The reform was 146 square kilometres (56 sq mi). The January 2020 estimate of the raion population was 53,619 (2020 est.). The Boryspil raion is located in the east-central area of the Kyiv Oblast, and has a total area of 146 km . On the raion's southern border flows the Dnieper River ( Dnipro ). Near the river, the raion's lowest elevation points are located. Other rivers that flow through

980-623: The rites within the Muscovite patriarchate, had won the upper hand over his adversary Avvakum , resulting in an intra-Russian schism ( raskol ) between the Reformed Orthodoxy and the Old Believers . Kiev now supplied the Russian patriarch with an academy (after Mohyla's offer to found an academy in Moscow had been rejected) on whose scholars Nikon had relied already for his reforms. Nikon himself, having proposed to replace

1015-413: The sacred community of Borisovka (NB. probably Baryshivka). But the rebels also came there and slaughtered many Jews including infants. The local non-Jews pitied those who survived and brought them back to Pereiaslav, where they remained locked up like prisoners in their homes, because they were afraid to be seen by the rebels. At night they did not know what the morning would bring, and in the morning - what

1050-417: The same year 1654. A new community developed during the late 18th century. According to the tax books of 1801, there were 5 Christian merchants, no Jewish merchants; 844 Christian townspeople and 66 Jewish townspeople. According to the audit of 1847 there was only one "Pereiaslavskoe' Jewish community in the district, consisting of 1,519 people. According to the census of 1897, there were 185,000 inhabitants in

1085-459: The shooting was 4–5 November, however, the memorial plate indicates a different date – 6–8 October. On 19 May 1943, after a raid, 7 more Jewish women and 1 man were shot, and buried in the Altitsky cemetery. The current Jewish population of Pereiaslav numbers fewer than 100. The community office is located in the building of the former synagogue. There is a major river port in the city, working as part of Kyiv River Port . Established in 1986 as

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1120-597: The text of a 911 treaty with the Byzantine Empire , where it was mentioned as Pereyaslav-Ruskyi to distinguish it from Preslav in Bulgaria and later with newly established cities in Zalesye including Pereslavl-Zalessky and Pereyaslavl-Ryazansky . Vladimir I (Volodymyr I), the grand prince of Kiev , built a large fortress in 992 to protect the southern limits of Kievan Rus' from raids of nomads from

1155-535: The villages of Revne , Abaievykh , and Stare . After the reform in July 2020, the raion consisted of 11 hromadas : Before the 2020 reform, the raion consisted of four hromadas, Previously, it consisted of 20 rural councils that contained 43 villages. Truce of Andrusovo The Truce of Andrusovo ( Polish : Rozejm w Andruszowie , Russian : Андрусовское перемирие Andrusovskoye Pieriemiriye , also sometimes known as Treaty of Andrusovo ) established

1190-630: Was a royal city of Poland. During the second half of the 16th century Pereiaslav became a regimental city of the Zaphorozhian Host . Here in 1654 Bohdan Khmelnytskyi had the controversial "Pereiaslav Convent", where the Zaphorozhian Cossacks had voted for a military alliance with the Tsardom of Russia and accepted the Pereiaslav Agreement , bringing their lands under Russian rule. The treaty resulted in

1225-422: Was merged into Boryspil Raion. Distribution of the population by native language according to the 2001 census : The first mention of the Jewish community of Pereiaslav dates to 1620, when the townspeople complained to King Sigismund of the growing number and influence of Jews in Pereiaslav. Denying Jews the right to keep breweries, malt-houses and distilleries, having already prohibited them to engage in farming,

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