Khorol - a city in the south-west, Poltava Oblast, center Khorolsky area. Khorol Geographically located in the Dnieper Lowland, in its southern part. There Rudka rivers and Khorol.

The city has a long history, first of Khorol known from the chronicles in 1083, but granted city status since 1781. Khorol has an area of 7 sq km, which (as of 2011) reside almost 14 thousand people. Climate - temperate continental, summer is often hot in the winter Horol soft.

In Horol found many memorial to Soviet military prisoners. There is also the grave of famous Ukrainian - L. Borovitsky and Fr. Kotsiubynska.

Vyshnyaky village, near Khorol is an outstanding architectural monuments - this is the current Trinity Church was built in the late XVIII century and the building, which in 1845 visited the famous Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko. By pam'tok nature in Khorol belong - oak and oak grove (1 hectare).

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