Central Ukraine
Cherkasy Oblast
Cherkasy Raion

Cherkasy

Cherkasy is a city in . It is the capital of the Cherkasy Oblast. The city is the cultural, educational and industrial center. The population is 287,583.
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  • Type: City with 274,000 residents
  • Description: city in Ukraine
  • Historically known as: “Cherkassy”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Cherkasy Arena and St. Michael’s Cathedral.

Stadium
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 3.0.
The is a multi-purpose stadium in Cherkasy, . Until 2020 it was known as the Central Stadium, Cherkasy. It is currently used mostly for football matches, and was the home of FC Dnipro Cherkasy and now the home of FC Cherkaskyi Dnipro.

Church
Photo: Kyslinka27, CC BY-SA 4.0.
St. Michael's Cathedral is an Orthodox church located in Cherkasy in central . The church was constructed in 2000. The Orthodox Church of Ukraine took possession of the church on 17 October 2024.

Museum
Photo: Turzh, Public domain.
is a museum.

Cherkasy

Latitude
49.4447° or 49° 26′ 41″ north
Longitude
32.0588° or 32° 3′ 32″ east
Population
274,000
Elevation
110 metres (361 feet)
IATA airport code
CKC
United Nations Location Codes
UA CHR and UA CKC
Open location code
8GXJC3V5+VG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 265056942
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
710791
Wiki­data ID
Q157055
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Cherkasy” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Tsjerkasi”
  • Arabic: “تشيركاسي”
  • Armenian: “Չերկասի”
  • Asturian: “Cherkasy”
  • Azerbaijani: “Çerkasi”
  • Azerbaijani: “Çerkası”
  • Bashkir: “Черкассы”
  • Basque: “Txerkasi”
  • Basque: “Txerkasy”
  • Belarusian: “Чаркасы”
  • Bengali: “চেরকেসি”
  • Bulgarian: “Черкаси”
  • Bulgarian: “Черкаск”
  • Catalan: “Txerkassi”
  • Cebuano: “Cherkasy”
  • Chechen: “Черкасси”
  • Chinese: “切尔卡瑟”
  • Chinese: “切爾卡瑟”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Çerkası”
  • Croatian: “Čerkasi”
  • Croatian: “Čerkasy”
  • Czech: “Čerkassy”
  • Czech: “Čerkasy”
  • Danish: “Cherkasy”
  • Danish: “Tjerkassy”
  • Danish: “Tjerkasy”
  • Dutch: “Cherkassy”
  • Dutch: “Tserkassy”
  • Dutch: “Tsjerkasy”
  • Eastern Mari: “Черкассы”
  • Erzya: “Черкассы ош”
  • Esperanto: “Ĉerkasi”
  • Esperanto: “Ĉerkaso”
  • Estonian: “Tšerkassõ”
  • Finnish: “Tšerkasy”
  • Finnish: “Tsherkasy”
  • French: “Tcherkassy”
  • Georgian: “ჩერკასი”
  • German: “Cherkassy”
  • German: “Czerkasy”
  • German: “Tscherkassy”
  • German: “Tscherkasy”
  • Greek: “Τσερκάσι”
  • Gujarati: “ચેર્કસી”
  • Hebrew: “צ’רקאסי”
  • Hebrew: “צ’רקסי”
  • Hebrew: “צרקאסי”
  • Hindi: “चेरकासि”
  • Hungarian: “Cserkaszi”
  • Indonesian: “Cherkasy”
  • Interlingue: “Cherkasy”
  • Irish: “Cherkasy”
  • Italian: “Čerkasi”
  • Italian: “Čerkassy”
  • Italian: “Cerkasy”
  • Italian: “Čerkasy”
  • Italian: “Cherkasy”
  • Japanese: “チェルカーシ”
  • Japanese: “チェルカースィ”
  • Japanese: “チェルカシ”
  • Japanese: “チェルカスィ”
  • Japanese: “チェルカスイ”
  • Japanese: “チェルカッシ”
  • Japanese: “チェルカッシィ”
  • Japanese: “チェルカッスィ”
  • Japanese: “チェルカッスイ”
  • Kannada: “ಚೆರ್ಕಾಸಿ”
  • Kazakh: “Черкассы”
  • Kirghiz: “Черкассы”
  • Korean: “체르카시”
  • Kotava: “Tcerkasi”
  • Ladin: “Cerkasi”
  • Latin: “Circassium”
  • Latin: “Czercases”
  • Latvian: “Čerkasi”
  • Lithuanian: “Čerkasai”
  • Lombard: “Čerkasy”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Čerkasy”
  • Macedonian: “Черкаси”
  • Malagasy: “Cherkasy”
  • Malay: “Cherkasy”
  • Marathi: “चेरकासी”
  • Mingrelian: “ჩერკასი”
  • Moksha: “Чэркасы”
  • Mongolian: “Черкас хот”
  • Mongolian: “Черкас”
  • Mongolian: “Черкаси”
  • Mongolian: “Черкасы”
  • Northern Frisian: “Tscherkasy (Steed)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Tscherkasy”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tsjerkassy”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tsjerkasy”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cherkasy”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tsjerkassy”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tsjerkasy”
  • Norwegian: “Tsjerkasy”
  • Ossetian: “Черкассы”
  • Persian: “چرکاسی”
  • Polish: “Czerkasy”
  • Portuguese: “Chercássi”
  • Portuguese: “Tcherkássi”
  • Romanian: “Cerkasî”
  • Romanian: “Cherkasy”
  • Russian: “Черкассы”
  • Rusyn: “Черкасы”
  • Scots: “Cherkasy”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Cherkasy”
  • Serbian: “Čerkasi”
  • Serbian: “Черкаси”
  • Serbian: “Черка́си”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Čerkasi”
  • Sinhala: “චෙක්සේ”
  • Slovak: “Čerkasy”
  • Slovenian: “Čerkasi”
  • South Azerbaijani: “چرکاسی”
  • Spanish: “Cherkasi”
  • Spanish: “Cherkassi”
  • Spanish: “Cherkassy”
  • Spanish: “Cherkasy”
  • Swahili: “Cherkasy”
  • Swedish: “Tjerkassij”
  • Swedish: “Tjerkassy”
  • Swedish: “Tjerkasy”
  • Tamil: “செர்கசி நகரம்”
  • Tamil: “செர்காசி”
  • Tatar: “Черкассы”
  • Tatar: “Черкасы”
  • Telugu: “చెర్కసి”
  • Thai: “แชร์กาซือ”
  • Turkish: “Çerkası”
  • Turkish: “Çerkassi”
  • Turkish: “Cherkassy”
  • Udmurt: “Черкассы”
  • Ukrainian: “Черкаси”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Čerkasy”
  • Urdu: “چیرکاسی”
  • Uzbek: “Cherkassi”
  • Veps: “Čerkasad”
  • Vietnamese: “Cherkassy”
  • Vietnamese: “Cherkasy”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Cherkasy”
  • Western Armenian: “Չերկասի”
  • Western Frisian: “Tsjerkasy”
  • Western Panjabi: “چرکیسی”
  • Wu Chinese: “切尔卡瑟”
  • Yakut: “Черкассы”
  • Yue Chinese: “切爾卡瑟”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Cherkasy”. Photo: Haidamac, CC BY-SA 4.0.