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Perevolochna () is a former fortress and town in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Cossack Hetmanate, and later a village in Poltava Oblast. Before the establishment of Kamianske Water Reservoir in the 1960s, here also existed a river crossing. The settlement was situated at the bank of the Dnieper near the mouth of Vorskla River, where a ford across Dnieper enabled people to cross the river, hence its name. The crossing Perevolochna – Mishuryn Rih was also a key crossing during the Battle of the Dnieper in October 1943.
History
Perevolochna was founded at the turn of the 13th to 14th century by the Lithuanian Grand Duke Vytautas the Great as a fortified settlement in order to protect his empire against enemies from the East.
Again Perevolochna is mentioned in 1640s belonging to Yuri Nemyrych (Jerzy Niemirycz), but it was also claimed by Potocki family. King Charles XII of Sweden, hetman Ivan Mazepa and Kost Hordiienko with 3,000 Swedes and Cossacks managed to cross the Dnieper river and take refuge in Turkish-held Moldavia.
On maps from 1730s Perevolochna fortress is shown on the Dnieper river just north of the Ukrainian fortification line.
After the loss of Russia in the Pruth River Campaign, the fortress again became a key place of the Southern frontier.
Until being flooded by the Soviet government with creation of the Dniprodzerzhynsk reservoir (today Kamianske Reservoir) in the middle of the 1960s,
Natives
- Birthplace of Yppolit Fedorovych Bohdanovich (1743–1803)
- Birthplace of Ivan Ivanovich Martinov (1771–1833)