Yelanets

Yelanets lies on the Hnylyi Yelanets, a small river in the Southern Bug basin. The settlement was founded in the early nineteenth century by Cossacks from the Kyiv and Poltava regions and peasants from Kursk and Voronezh. It first bore the river's name, Hnylyi Yelanets. In 1818 it became a military settlement, and from 1829 served as the centre of a lancer regiment.