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Myrhorod (, ) is a city in Poltava Oblast, central Ukraine. It serves as the Capital city of Myrhorod Raion. Myrhorod also hosts the administration of Myrhorod urban hromada, one of the of Ukraine. It is located on the Khorol River. Population:
From 1471 to 1667 the town was part of the Kiev Voivodeship of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland.
Myrhorod was first mentioned in chronicles in 1575 when Stephen Báthory made it a regiment city. According to some historians, there was an earlier mentioning of the city in 1530, when the city coat of arms were established - yellow cross over an eight-pointed star, which signifies the victory of Christianity over Islam. Myrhorod was a royal city of Poland.
Myrhorod was the regimental base of the Myrhorod Cossacks who were very active in several Ukraine Cossack uprisings, particularly during the peasants'-and-cossacks' revolt of 1638 under the leadership of Hetman against the Polish nobility ( szlachta). The Myrhorod Cossack regiment was among the best units in the army of Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky during the Khmelnytsky Uprising (1648–1654).
After the Treaty of Pereyaslav, the city became an uezd city, the centre for the Myrhorod regiment. The famous Sorochyntsy Fair is located 25 km from Myrhorod.
Since 1912, Myrhorod is known for its underground mineral waters.Миргород // Большая Российская Энциклопедия / редколл., гл. ред. Ю. С. Осипов. том 20. М., научное издательство "Большая Российская Энциклопедия", 2012. стр.429-430
A local newspaper is published here since February 1919.№ 2344. «Вестник Миргородского уездного Совета рабочих, крестьянских и военных депутатов» // Газеты СССР 1917—1960. Библиографический справочник. том 2. М., «Книга», 1976. стр.107
Since 1920 Myrhorod is also known as a resort town.Миргород // Большая Советская Энциклопедия. / редколл., гл. ред. О. Ю. Шмидт. 1-е изд. Т.39. М., ОГИЗ, «Советская Энциклопедия», 1938. ст.487
In 1999, an English Language Resource Center was established at Myrhorod School No. 9, one of four such centres opened in Ukraine with the continuous help from Siena College since 1995. Other contributors to this project were Americans for Democracy in Ukraine (ADU), Canadian Credit Bank, and Narodna Kasa from Montreal, Canada. In 1995 a group of Myrhorod teachers, former participants at the seminars conducted by methodologists from Siena College Teacher Training Institute, organized Poltava Oblast's English Teachers' Association. The Myrhorod English Resource Center is supervised by the local Teachers' Association.
Until 18 July 2020, Myrhorod was designated as a city of oblast significance and did not belong to Myrhorod Raion even though it was the center of the raion. As part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Poltava Oblast to four, the city was merged into Myrhorod Raion.
On April 2, 2022, the invaders fired 3 missiles at infrastructure facilities in the city. The air defense forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine managed to destroy several enemy cruise missiles. However, the shelling damaged the runway of the Myrhorod air base, the airfield infrastructure, and caused a fire at the fuel and lubricants warehouse.
On the night of April 8-9, 2022, Russian invaders shelled an infrastructure facility in the city, with two victims reported.
| Ukrainian | 88.26% |
| Russian | 11.34% |
| other/undecided | 0.4% |
There are several health resorts in the town (at least four). The most extensive and by far the best equipped of these is Myrhorod Resort (). This particular spa consists of four individual sanatoria, each one specialising in one or more distinct areas - diabetes, cardiovascular disease, ENT, gastrointestinal problems, etc. and are open for medical treatments six days a week (Sundays excluded). An integral part of any treatment is one of nine diet regimes, although these are recommended and not enforced.
The whole complex is located right in the middle of the city and is spaced out in a large expanse of sandy woodland with the Khorol River providing several areas suitable for bathing. It has a musical fountain, (opened in 2010), and, at night, a large illuminated windmill, (opened in 2011), standing close to the main administrative building. Other features include pedaloes, boats, several restaurants and cafés, dancing, live music, rides through the woods in a horse-drawn carriage, a theatre, organised excursions and a large 'water feature' with geese, ducks (including a couple of Mandarins), a large family of terrapins and some beautiful black swans. Elsewhere in the complex is an enclosure with peacocks and hens, including some rather exotic white ones.
There is another sanatorium, 'Rainbow', (), within the same grounds as Myrhorod Resort but with different owners. This is, in the main, frequented by wealthy Ukrainians who prefer what they regard as the 'added security' of a sanatorium that advertises itself as 'élite'. The other two resorts are much further out of town, not so well maintained and equipped and are both rather 'tired' in appearance, both from the inside and out. One of them, the 'Hohol', () is owned by a Trades Union and seems to derive most of its clientele from its members.
Generally, English is not widely spoken in any of the spas, only Ukrainian, although Myrhorod Resort has occasional visitors from the UK, Germany, France, Dubai, the U.S. and Canada in particular and despite very few foreign visitors speaking more than a couple of words of the local languages, they do seem to be able to get by with some pointing, prodding and smiling.
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