Chernihiv

• Founded as early as 9th century
• One of major cities of early Ruthenia
• The reign of knyaz Mstislav, a golden age of Chernihiv
• Destroyed by Tartars in 1239 and later attacked until late 15th century
• In Lithuanian hands during the 14th century
• Part of Muscovy, 15th–16th centuries
• Ceded to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1618
• Annexed by Russia in 1648 following the Bohdan Khmelnytsky uprising
• Soviet rule established in 1919; Chernihiv part of the Ukrainian SSR
• During the Nazi occupation 1941–1943 the city was almost completely destroyed
• 1986 Chornobyl catastrophe
• In 1990 a "sausage revolution" breaks out in Chernihiv as people seize food from the car of a Communist Party official
• 1300th anniversary of the foundation of the city celebrated in 1992

External link

• Chernihiv - the Princely City of Ukraine

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