Radychiv (; ; English, connected with the Hutterites: Radichev) is a small village in Novhorod-Siverskyi Raion, Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine. The population is about 800 people. The village is located on the right bank of the Desna River. It belongs to Ponornytsia settlement hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.
History To the north of the village was the ancient Russian city of Radichiv. Near the village were found two settlements of the Yukhnov culture, a settlement of the 1st century AD and a Severyansk settlement. Also near the village are ancient settlements and burial mounds of the Kievan Rus period.
The village played an important role in the history of the Hutterites, because all Hutterite, leaving Vishenka, lived there from 1802 to 1842.Radichev (Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine) at Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online Retrieved 2024-06-19John A. Hostetler: Hutterite Society, Baltimore, MD, 1974, page 100/1. Retrieved 2024-06-19
Until 18 July 2020, Radychiv belonged to Korop 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 Korop Raion was merged into Novhorod-Siverskyi Raion.
Geography The area of the Radychiv is 4,109 km2. The Radychiv is located in the north of Ukraine, in the north-eastern part of Chernihiv Oblast, in the Novgorod-Siverskyi Raion. Radychiv is located on the slopes of the Dnieper Lowland. The Desna River, the left tributary of the Dnieper, flows through the community.Національний атлас України, с. 42 Retrieved 2025-07-15Географія Сумської області: особливості природи, соціально-економічного розвитку та раціонального природокористування: колективна монографія / За заг. ред. А. О. Корнуса. − Суми: СумДПУ імені А.С. Макаренка, 2021. − 212 с. Retrieved 2025-07-15
The climate Radychiv is moderately continental. Winter is cool, summer is not hot. The average temperature in July is +19 °C, in January -7.5 °C. The maximum precipitation falls in the summer in the form of rain. The average annual amount is from 650 to 700 mm, changing from west to east.Національний атлас України, с. 167 Retrieved 2025-06-28
The Radychiv located in the natural zone of mixed forests, in Polissya. Among the trees in the forests, oaks, lindens, and maples dominate. Typical large mammals are elk, roe deer, wild boar, squirrels, beavers, hares and wolves. The most common soils in the area are chornozem and podzol soils. The Mezyn National Park is located near the village.
Demographics As of the 2001 Ukrainian census, the village had a population of 805 inhabitants. The native language composition was as follows:
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