Hadiach is a historic city in Poltava Oblast

Poltava Oblast

Poltava Oblast is an oblast of central Ukraine. The administrative center of the oblast is the city of Poltava.Other important cities within the oblast include: Komsomolsk, Kremenchuk, Lubny and Myrhorod.-Geography:...

 (province

Oblast

Oblast is a type of administrative division in Slavic countries, including some countries of the former Soviet Union. The word "oblast" is a loanword in English, but it is nevertheless often translated as "area", "zone", "province", or "region"...

) in the central-east part of Ukraine

Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

. Located on the Psel River

Psel River

The Psel is a river, a left tributary of the Dnipro River, which flows through Russia and Ukraine.The Psel has a length of 717 km and a drainage basin of 22,800 km². The river's right bank is high and steep, unlike the low, left bank...

 the city is an administrative center of the Hadyatskyi Raion

Hadyatskyi Raion

Hadyatskyi Raion is a raion in the central Ukrainian province of Poltava. The raion's administrative center is the city of Hadiach.Important rivers within the Hadyatskyi Raion include the Psel and Horol rivers....

 (district

Raion

A raion is a type of administrative unit of several post-Soviet countries. The term, which is from French rayon 'honeycomb, department,' describes both a type of a subnational entity and a division of a city, and is commonly translated in English as "district"...

). Population 22,267 (est).http://gska2.rada.gov.ua:7777/pls/z7502/A005?rdat1=02.12.2004&rf7571=24743

Hadiach was granted city rights

Magdeburg rights

Magdeburg Rights or Magdeburg Law were a set of German town laws regulating the degree of internal autonomy within cities and villages granted by a local ruler. Modelled and named after the laws of the German city of Magdeburg and developed during many centuries of the Holy Roman Empire, it was...

 in 1634.

Hadiach is one of the main points of interest to Hasidic Jews

Jews

The Jews , also known as the Jewish people, are a nation and ethnoreligious group originating in the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East. The Jewish ethnicity, nationality, and religion are strongly interrelated, as Judaism is the traditional faith of the Jewish nation...

 visiting Ukraine due to the old cemetery that is on the river running through the city, where Shneur Zalman of Liadi

Shneur Zalman of Liadi

Shneur Zalman of Liadi , also known as the Baal HaTanya, , was an Orthodox Rabbi, and the founder and first Rebbe of Chabad, a branch of Hasidic Judaism, then based in Liadi, Imperial Russia...

 is buried.

Book featuring Hadiach

The main characeters in Nikolai Gogol

Nikolai Gogol

Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol was a Ukrainian-born Russian dramatist and novelist.Considered by his contemporaries one of the preeminent figures of the natural school of Russian literary realism, later critics have found in Gogol's work a fundamentally romantic sensibility, with strains of Surrealism...

's story Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka and His Aunt are from Hadiach (Gadyach in the 1957 translation by David Magarshack

David Magarshack

David Magarshack was a British translator and biographer of Russian authors, best known for his translations of Dostoevsky....

).

External links

• "Gadyach" (news of Gadyach, events, weather, history. All in English, Ukrainian and Russian language)