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Coordinates: 51°13′N, 33°12′E

Hlukhiv Глухів
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Coordinates: 51°13′N 33°13′E / 51.217, 33.217
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Sumy
Founded	1174
Population (2005)
- Total	36,100
Website: http://hlukhiv.com.ua/

Hlukhiv, (Ukrainian: Глухів, Russian: Глухов, Glukhov), is a historic town in Sumy region of Ukraine, just south from the Russian border (see map). As of 2001, the city's population is 35,800. It is near the air base of Chervonoye Pustogorod.

First noticed by chroniclers as a Severian town in 1152, Hlukhiv became the seat of a branch of the princely house of Chernigov following the Mongol invasion of Rus. The area (1320-1667) had been part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (in the Czernihów Voivodeship of the Crown of Poland) since before the Union of Lublin. Was granted Magdeburg Rights in 1644 by Władysław IV Vasa. The town was revived by Peter the Great who transferred the hetman's capital from Baturin to Hlukhiv in 1708. It served as the capital of the Cossack Hetmanate in 1708-22 and 1727-34. Under the last hetmans of Ukraine, the town was remodeled in the Baroque style. Subsequently it declined in consequence of frequent fires, so that very few of its architectural gems survive.

Since the first school of singing in the Russian Empire was established there in 1738, the town has a rich musical heritage. Composers Dmytro Bortniansky and Maksym Berezovsky, whose statues grace the Bortniansky Square of Hlukhiv, are believed to have studied there.

The oldest building in the town is the church of St. Nicholas (1693), modeled after traditional wooden churches and executed in the Ukrainian Baroque style. The church, repaired and renovated in 1871, has three pear-shaped domes and a two-storey belltower (picture).

The church of the Savior's Transfiguration (1765) straddles the line between Baroque and Neoclassicism, while the massive Neo-Byzantine cathedral (1884-93) resembles St. Volodymyr's Cathedral in Kiev.

Probably the best known landmark of modern Hlukhiv is the conspicuous water tower (1927-29), though more historical interest attaches to the triumphal arch, dated either to 1744 or 1766. It has been suggested that the architect of this rather plain structure was Andrey Kvasov. The arch, the oldest in Ukraine, sustained damage during World War II but was subsequently restored.

Due to the traditional cultivation of industrial hemp, Hlukhiv has become home to the "Institute of Bast Crops" of the "Ukrainian Academy of Agrarian Sciences".

• (English) Encyclopedia of Ukraine: Hlukhiv
• (Russian) Unofficial information site about Hlukhiv

Administrative divisions of Sumy Oblast, Ukraine
Administrative center:  Sumy
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