Lukoml is an old Russian city located on the right bank of the Sula River. It was part of the Principality of Pereyaslav and was one of the links in the Posulsky defensive line . The first mention of the city dates from 1178 . In the XVII century a Cossack fortress was built here. During the Ruin, the entire population of the village of Lukoml was cut out or donated to the Crimean Tatars by the right-bank hetman Yuri Khmelnitsky [1] . In 1846, the city was mentioned by Taras Shevchenko .
The settlement was preserved near the tract Panskaya Gora near the village of Lukomye, Orzhitsky district , which was repeatedly investigated by various archaeologists. The triangular central square on the north side was protected by a rampart and a moat, and from the south by a double line of ramparts and ditches. The thickness of the cultural layer is up to 1.8 m. Most archaeological finds date back to the Old Russian era of the XI - XIII centuries . The material found on the site of the former city is stored in the Hermitage , the Institute of Archeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, as well as in the Romensky Museum of Local Lore.
Notes
- ↑ Historical figures of South-Western Russia in biographies and portraits: First edition / Compiled by: professors of the Imperial University of St. Vladimira V. B. Antonovich and V. A. Bets in the collection of Vasily Vasilyevich Tarnovskago. - Kyiv: Printing house of the Imperial University of St. Vladimira, 1885. - VI, II, 110 p., Ill.
Literature
- Lukoml // Poltava: Encyclopedic dovnik (Ukrainian) / ed. A.V. Kudritsky. - K .: Ukrainian Encyclopedia, 1992 .-- 1024 p. - 30,000 copies. - ISBN 5-88500-033-6 .