Chyhyryn [Čyhyryn]. Map: IV-13. City (2001 pop 11,960) in the Dnieper Upland, raion center in Cherkasy oblast. Chyhyryn was a fortified winter station of the Cossacks in the first half of the 16th century. In the second half it was the center of Chyhyryn county. In 1592 the town was granted Magdeburg law and began to grow. In 1638–47 the head of Chyhyryn county was Bohdan Khmelnytsky. In 1648 Chyhyryn became the residence of Hetman B. Khmelnytsky, a regimental center, and the capital of the Hetman state. After the capital was moved to Baturyn in 1663 and Chyhyryn was sacked by the Turks in 1678, the town declined. Khmelnytsky's palace, the town hall, and the Church of the Savior, which were built in the second quarter of the 17th century, have not survived. The ruins of the fortifications can still be found on Bohdan Hill. Beginning in 1797, Chyhyryn was a county town in Kyiv gubernia. The Trinity Monastery was built near Chyhyryn in 1627, at first housing only monks and then, beginning in 1735, nuns. The monastery was closed down by Soviet authorities. Chyhyryn has some small industry, including a food industry, a leather-haberdashery factory, a furniture factory, and an arts and crafts factory. It has a regional historical museum. In 1843 and 1845 Taras Shevchenko visited the town and dedicated some poems and paintings to it.