Nizhyn

Nizhyn is a town positioned in Chernihiv Oblast of northern Ukraine, alongside the Oster River, 150 km north east of the nation's capital, Kiev. It is the place of work of Nizhyn Raion, even though the city itself is incorporated as a city of oblast significance and does not belong to the raion. Once it changed into a main metropolis of the Chernigov Governorate. The earliest regarded references to the place pass returned to 1147, whilst it became briefly stated as Unenezh. In the times of the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth, Nizhyn became granted Magdeburg rights as a self governing town.

In 1663 Nizhyn turned into the vicinity of the Black Council of Ukrainian Cossacks, which elected Bryukhovetsky as the brand new Hetman of the Zaporizhian Host consequently conditionally dividing Ukraine into left bank Ukraine and right financial institution Ukraine. It turned into additionally the seat of a prime Cossack regiment. Nizhyn became once a main middle of Hasidic Judaism and is the site of the Ohel of the Hasidic grasp, Rabbi Dovber Schneuri of Chabad Lubavitch. The town also housed the thriving Greek network which enjoyed a number of privileges granted by using Bohdan Khmelnitsky.