Putyvl
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Putyvl or Putivl (Ukrainian: Пути́вль, Putyvl’, Russian: ; is a picturesque town in north-east Ukraine, in Sumy Oblast. One of the original Siverian towns, Putyvl was part of Russian Kursk guberniya prior to the Bolshevik Revolution.
Putyvl was first mentioned as early as 1146 as an important fortress contested between Chernigov and Novgorod-Seversky principalities of Kievan Rus. The song of Yaroslavna on the walls of Putyvl is the emotional culmination of the Tale of Igor's Campaign and Alexander Borodin's opera Prince Igor.
After the Battle of Vedrosha in 1500, Putyvl was ceded to Muscovite Russia. During the Time of Troubles, Putyvl became the center of Ivan Bolotnikov's uprising and briefly a base for the False Dmitry I forces.
During the Second World War Soviet partisans led by Sydir Kovpak started their guerrilla war against the Germans in the forests all over the Northern Ukraine.
Currently about 20,000 people live in Putyvl. Among the town's architectural attractions the most remarkable are the sixteenth-century Molchansky monastery and seventeenth-century Saviour Cathedral.
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| Subdivisions of Sumy Oblast, Ukraine |
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| Raions: | Bilopilskyy Raion | Burynskyy Raion | Belykopysarivskyy Raion | Hlukhiv City | Hlykhivskyy Raion | Konotop City | Konotopskyy Raion | Krasnopilskyy Raion | Korolevskyy Raion | Lebedyn City | Lebedynskyy Raion | Lypovodolynskyy Raion | Nedryhaylivskyy Raion | Okhtyrka City | Okhtyrskyy Raion | Putyvlskyy Raion | Romenskyy Raion | Romny City | Seredyno-Budskyy Raion | Sumskyy Raion | Sumy City | Trostyanetskyy Raion | Shostka City | Shostkynskyy Raion | Yampilskyy Raion
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| Cities: | Hlukhiv | Konotop | Lebedyn | Okhtyrka | Romny | Shostka | Sumy
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| Towns: | Bilopillya | Buryn | Druzhba | Krolevets | Putyvl | Seredyna-Buda | Trostyanets | Vorozhba | ||
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