Mutikhi
Foundation of the village
According to the legends this village is the oldest in Irklyiv region. In 1445 in the charter of Olel’ko Volodymyrovich it was mentioned already bout the "Land Mytushuno”. The village is founded alongside the Irklyiv fortress, as a military Cossacks "quarantine" , that was entrust to to watch carefully on every motion on the Dnieper and on its right bank. A small village Mytushuno is mentioned in the second Poland illustration in 1622. . A village is founden on high sand hill surrounded by The Dnieper water from three sides.
The name of the village
Historical sources mention that at first the village had name "Matyshuno”, later " Mytushuno”. Since the beginning of the 18-th and to the beginning of the 19-th century it had name "Motishynzhy”. The final name is based on the previous names, now it’s – ", Mutikhi”. Some people say that the name came from the name of turbid Dnieper water.
The first inhabitants were the guard cossacks of Irklyiv fortress.
According to the data we have in 1740 the village had 8 homesteads. Each homestead had 2-3 houses where few families lived. The oldest and the biggest family was Lut family. This family starts in 1650 with Cossac Ivan Lut. Most widespread last names of the village: Lut, Kovaletz, Lytvynenko, Zaika, Chypenko, Ustymenko, Nahorodnuy, Byrhatskiy, Dyachenko, Vodyanyk.
The peasant crafts
The majority of the villagers were fishermen. All of its products and goods they sell or change in the nearby town Cherkassy. Farming was the main source of products and goods for the villagers of that time, but because of the marshland and infertile sand soil, farming was not popular in the village. The wealthiest man in the village was the priest Andriy Maksymovich Gryshchenko. He had his own haymaking, water mill, bee-garden, cattle. The second richest person was cossack Ivan Ovdiyenko. He was the owner of few forests near the village and an arable field near the river Zolotonoshka. There were also few tchoomaks (Ukrainian oxcart driver) in the village that brought salt from the Crimea and sold it in the markets. Also, a big number of villagers were engaged in land work.
Foundation of the village
According to the legends this village is the oldest in Irklyiv region. In 1445 in the charter of Olel’ko Volodymyrovich it was mentioned already bout the "Land Mytushuno”. The village is founded alongside the Irklyiv fortress, as a military Cossacks "quarantine" , that was entrust to to watch carefully on every motion on the Dnieper and on its right bank. A small village Mytushuno is mentioned in the second Poland illustration in 1622. . A village is founden on high sand hill surrounded by The Dnieper water from three sides.
The name of the village
Historical sources mention that at first the village had name "Matyshuno”, later " Mytushuno”. Since the beginning of the 18-th and to the beginning of the 19-th century it had name "Motishynzhy”. The final name is based on the previous names, now it’s – ", Mutikhi”. Some people say that the name came from the name of turbid Dnieper water.
The first inhabitants were the guard cossacks of Irklyiv fortress.
According to the data we have in 1740 the village had 8 homesteads. Each homestead had 2-3 houses where few families lived. The oldest and the biggest family was Lut family. This family starts in 1650 with Cossac Ivan Lut. Most widespread last names of the village: Lut, Kovaletz, Lytvynenko, Zaika, Chypenko, Ustymenko, Nahorodnuy, Byrhatskiy, Dyachenko, Vodyanyk.
The peasant crafts
The majority of the villagers were fishermen. All of its products and goods they sell or change in the nearby town Cherkassy. Farming was the main source of products and goods for the villagers of that time, but because of the marshland and infertile sand soil, farming was not popular in the village. The wealthiest man in the village was the priest Andriy Maksymovich Gryshchenko. He had his own haymaking, water mill, bee-garden, cattle. The second richest person was cossack Ivan Ovdiyenko. He was the owner of few forests near the village and an arable field near the river Zolotonoshka. There were also few tchoomaks (Ukrainian oxcart driver) in the village that brought salt from the Crimea and sold it in the markets. Also, a big number of villagers were engaged in land work.