Place · region

Kholodny Yar

Kholodny Yar is a forested area of ravines near Chyhyryn in central Ukraine, around the Motronynskyi Monastery. It is linked in Ukrainian memory with the Cossack Hetmanate and the haidamaka rising of 1768. From 1919 to 1922 local partisans there held a self-governing district against both White and Bolshevik forces, later celebrated in Yuri Horlis-Horsky's memoir of the same name.

Kholodny Yar — Image: Uk-Kamelot · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Mentioned in 1 state history

Kholodny Yar Republic

See also

Cite this entry

APA: The Epoch Institute. (2026). Kholodny Yar. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/kholodny-yar
MLA: “Kholodny Yar.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia, The Epoch Institute, 2026, https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/kholodny-yar. Accessed .
Chicago: The Epoch Institute. “Kholodny Yar.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. 2026. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/kholodny-yar.
Harvard: The Epoch Institute (2026) ‘Kholodny Yar’, The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. Available at: https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/kholodny-yar (Accessed: ).

Last reviewed October 2026Random entry ↻