Vilshana

Vilshana Вільшана
Urban-type settlement
Flag Coat of arms
Vilshana Location of Vilshana in Ukraine
Coordinates: 49°12′35″N 31°12′32″E / 49.20972°N 31.20889°E / 49.20972; 31.20889Coordinates: 49°12′35″N 31°12′32″E / 49.20972°N 31.20889°E / 49.20972; 31.20889
Country	Ukraine
Province	Cherkasy Oblast
District	Horodyshche Raion
Founded	1598
Town status	1965
Government
• Town Head	Volodymyr Yarovyi
Elevation	231 m (758 ft)
Population
• Total	3,072
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code	19523
Area code	+380 4734
Website	http://rada.gov.ua/

Vilshana (Ukrainian: Вільшана) is an urban-type settlement located in Horodyshche Raion (district) of Cherkasy Oblast (province) in central Ukraine. Population: 3,072 (2017 est.)^[1]

People from Vilshana

• Jerzy Różycki (1909-42), Polish mathematician and cryptologist who worked at breaking German Enigma-machine ciphers.

• Jan Stanisławski (Vilshana, near Korsun, Ukraine, 24 June 1860 – 6 January 1907, Kraków), Polish modernist painter, art educator, and founder and member of various innovative art groups and literary societies.

References

External links

• (in Polish) Olszana, miasteczko przy ujściu ruczaju Maźniki do rzeczki Olszanki in the Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland, volume VII (Netrebka — Perepiat) 1886, S. 496. (in Polish)

• (in Polish) Olszana, miasteczko, powiat zwinogródzki in the Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland, volume XV, p. 2 (Januszpol — Wola Justowska)1902, S. 408. (in Polish)