Velyki Sorochyntsi (ukr)

Velyki Sorochyntsi

Velyki Sorochyntsi ranks 7,415th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Dravograd, Thiruvarur, and Šternberk. Memorable people born in Velyki Sorochyntsi include Nikolai Gogol, and Danylo Apostol. Memorable people who died in Velyki Sorochyntsi include Danylo Apostol. Velyki Sorochyntsi has been the birth place of many writers, and military personnels and the death place of many military personnels. Velyki Sorochyntsi is located in Ukraine.

Velyki Sorochyntsi is a village in Myrhorod Raion, Poltava Oblast, central Ukraine. It formerly had town status. It hosts the administration of Velyki Sorochyntsi rural hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. The village is famous as the birthplace of the writer Nikolai Gogol and the location of the Sorochyntsi Fair. In 1925–1931, the town was called Neronovychi after the Bolshevik activist Yevhen Neronovych, who was executed by Ukrainian military forces in the town in 1918. Read more on Wikipedia