Korsun-Shevchenkivskyy

Korsun-Shevchenkivskyy (or Korsun'-Shevchenkivs'kyy, Ukrainian: Корсунь-Шевченківський; Polish: Korsuń Szewczenkowski)- city in Ukraine, in Cherkas'ka oblast'. Population 18,593 (2005 estimate). Until 1944 the city was known simply as Korsun, afterwards it was renamed to honor Taras Shevchenko.

See also:

• Korsun Pocket - 1944 battle on the Eastern Front of World War II.
• Battle of Korsun - 1648 battle during the Chmielnicki Uprising.

External link

• Soviet topographic map 1:100,000