Kozelets

Kozelets was first mentioned in 1098 as a fortified town in the East Slavic state of Kievan Rus'.{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?AddButton=pages\K\O\Kozelets.htm|title=Kozelets|accessdate=2008-06-17|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Ukraine}} During times of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Kozelets was known by the name Kozlohrad ({{langx|uk|Козлоград}}).

File:Kozelets Cathedral (Klymenko).jpg and Andrei Kvasov.]]

In the beginning of the seventeenth century, Kozelets was an important regional trade center.{{cite book|title=Козелец (пос. гор. типа в Черниговской обл.)|url=http://bse.sci-lib.com/article062508.html|accessdate=21 June 2020|language=ru|year=1969–1978|publisher=Great Soviet Encyclopedia|location=Moscow}} The town was also a sotnia town in the Pereiaslav and Kyiv Regiment of the Cossack Hetmanate during the seventeenth-eighteenth centuries.{{cite web|url=http://cult.gov.ua/blog/2007-12-28-45/|title=Kozeletskyi Raion. General information about the raion|accessdate=2008-06-17|work=Division of Culture and Tourism|publisher=Chernihiv Oblast Government Administration|language=Ukrainian}}

In 1656, Kozelets was granted the Magdeburg rights. The Kozelets Cossack Rada elected Yakym Somko as the Hetman of the Cossacks in 1662.{{cite news|first=Ihor|last=Syundyukov|title=Ukrainian rebellion|url=http://www.day.kiev.ua/124033|work=The Day|date=September 18, 2004|accessdate=2008-06-17|language=Ukrainian}}{{cite book |title=Нариси Історії України: З найдавніших часів до кінця XVIII ст.|last=Yakovenko|first=Nataliya|year=1997|location=Kyiv|url=http://history.franko.lviv.ua/yak_content.htm}} After the Tatar invasion of 1679, Kozelets was partially destroyed.

In 1744 Empress Elizabeth of Russia stayed in Kozelets while making a pilgrimage to Kyiv.{{citation | last = Massie| first = Robert| title = Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman | publisher = Random House | place = New York| year = 2012 | page = 67 | isbn=978-0345408778 }}

The city also served as a regional center of the Kyiv Governorate, Malorossiya, and Chernigov Governorates of the Russian Empire during the eighteenth-nineteenth centuries. At the end of the nineteenth century, Kozelets's population was 5,420.{{cite book|title=Kozelets|url=http://gatchina3000.ru/brockhaus-and-efron-encyclopedic-dictionary/052/52757.htm|accessdate=2008-06-08|volume=V. 27|year=1895|publisher=Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary|location=Saint Petersburg}}

After the breakup of the Russian Empire leading to the Russian Civil War, Kozelets became a part of the Soviet Union. In 1924, its status as a city was removed and given that of an urban-type settlement. During World War II, the Nazi Einsatzgruppen executed 125 of the town's Jews, a population that numbered 2,000 before the war.{{cite web|url=http://yahadmap.org/#village/kozelets-chernihiv-ukraine.1197|publisher=yahadmap.org|title=YAHAD - IN UNUM|accessdate=2017-07-15}}{{cite web|url=http://www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/genocide/Einsatz2b.htm|title="The Einsatzgruppen Case" Military Tribunal II|accessdate=2008-06-17|publisher=UWE Bristol|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080119040808/http://www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/genocide/Einsatz2b.htm|archivedate=2008-01-19}}

Until 18 July 2020, Kozelets was the administrative center of Kozelets Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Chernihiv Oblast to five. The area of Kozelets Raion was merged into Chernihiv Raion.{{Cite news|title=Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ.|url=http://www.golos.com.ua/article/333466|access-date=2020-10-03|date=2020-07-18|website=Голос України|language=uk}}{{cite web |title=Нові райони: карти + склад |url=https://www.minregion.gov.ua/press/news/novi-rajony-karty-sklad/ |publisher=Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України |language=Ukrainian}}

Until 26 January 2024, Kozelets was designated urban-type settlement. On this day, a new law entered into force which abolished this status, and Kozelets became a rural settlement.{{cite news |title=Что изменится в Украине с 1 января |url=https://glavnoe.in.ua/ru/novosti/chto-yzmenytsya-v-ukrayne-s-1-yanvarya |work=glavnoe.in.ua |lang=ru| date=1 January 2024}}

File:Koselets iconostas.jpeg was made in Italy.]]

Being a regimental Cossack town, Kozelets has some important architectural monuments. This includes the Regimental Chancellery Building (the current town hall), the Darahan Mansion complex, the Saint Michael's Church (built in 1784) and the Ascension Church (1864–66).

The town's main cathedral and architectural attraction is the Cathedral of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin. The cathedral was built in the mid-eighteenth century in the late Ukrainian Baroque style by architects Ivan Hryhorovych-Barskyi and Andrei Kvasov.{{cite web|url=http://ukrainainkognita.org.ua/Ukr/Region/koz_ost_ukr/koz_ost_ukr.htm|title=Oster, Kozelets and others|accessdate=2008-06-17|last=Malenkov|first=Roman|work=Ukraine Incognita|language=Ukrainian|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080616183532/http://ukrainainkognita.org.ua/Ukr/Region/koz_ost_ukr/koz_ost_ukr.htm|archivedate=2008-06-16}}{{cite web|url=http://castles.com.ua/index.php?id=kozelec|title=Kozelets. Cathedral of the Nativity|accessdate=2008-06-17|work=castles.com.ua|language=Ukrainian}} Funds for the construction of the cathedral were provided by Alexey and Kyrylo Rozumovsky (the latter was appointed Hetman in 1750).

List of famous people from Kozelets:

• Bella Abzug (1920–1998), American congresswoman and activist whose mother emigrated from Ukraine
• Yevstafiy Bogomolets (between 1750 and 1755–1811) - the mayor of Kozelets in 1789, direct ancestor of academician Alexander A. Bogomolets (1881–1946) and Olga Bogomolets (1966), M.D., the founder of Radomysl CastleБогомолець. О. "Замок-музей Радомисль на Шляху Королів Via Regia". — Київ, 2013
• Yuriy Levitansky (1922–1996), Russian poet
• Boris Mankevsky (1883–1962), Ukrainian neurologist{{cite web|url=http://www.gorod.cn.ua/city_325.html|title=Kozelets|accessdate=2008-06-17|work=Gorod.cn.ua|language=Russian}}
• Vladimir Negovsky (1909–2003), Russian pathophysiologist
• Maria Vasillievna Pavlova (née Gortynskaia) (1854-1939) paleontologist and academician

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• {{cite web|url=http://gska2.rada.gov.ua/pls/z7502/A005?rdat1=17.06.2008&rf7571=40033|title=Urban-type settlement Kozelets, Chernihiv Oblast, Kozeletskyi Raion|accessdate=2008-06-17|work=Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine|language=Ukrainian|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110521221425/http://gska2.rada.gov.ua/pls/z7502/A005?rdat1=17.06.2008&rf7571=40033|archivedate=2011-05-21}}
• {{cite web|url=http://progylka.com.ua/node/200|title=Kozelets - Danivka - Lemeshi|accessdate=2008-06-17|work=Progylka.com.ua|language=Ukrainian|archive-date=2008-04-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080407221203/http://progylka.com.ua/node/200|url-status=dead}}
• {{cite book|url=http://ua.vlasenko.net/_pgs/pgs-html/pgs4-300.html|chapter=Kozelets, urban-type settlement|accessdate=2007-12-13|editor=Zharikov, N. L.|year=1983–1986|title=Monuments of urban development and architecture in the Ukrainian SSR. 1-4.|publisher=Budivel'nyk|location=Kyiv|language=Russian|page=300|lccn=84179019}}
• [http://www.radozamok.com.ua/en/ The Official Site of Radomysl Castle] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200814134402/http://www.radozamok.com.ua/en/ |date=2020-08-14 }}
• [http://www.yadvashem.org/untoldstories/database/index.asp?cid=513 The murder of the Jews of Kozelets] during World War II, at Yad Vashem website.

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