Pryluky

Pryluky lies in the cultivated country of left-bank Ukraine, where river valleys and open land supported farming and routes between settlements. Its position within the wider Dnieper world exposed it to changing political boundaries and military demands. Grain growing and livestock keeping sustained the surrounding countryside, while markets allowed rural produce and crafted goods to circulate. Defensive needs could strongly influence the organization and fortunes of a town on this contested frontier.

Pryluky became the centre of a Cossack regiment created during the Khmelnytsky uprising in 1648. The regiment was both a military body and a territorial division of the Hetmanate. After the 1667 Treaty of Andrusovo, left-bank Ukraine came under Russian sovereignty. The regiment was abolished in 1782, when its territory was incorporated into a new imperial provincial administration.