Left-bank Ukraine

Left-bank Ukraine
Лівобережна Україна
Historical region
Transfiguration monastery in Novhorod-Siverskyi
Baturyn Fortress Citadel
Poltava Regional Museum
Chernihiv Collegium
Location on the map of Ukraine
Location on the map of Ukraine
Country Ukraine
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

Left-bank Ukraine (Ukrainian: Лівобережна Україна, romanizedLivoberezhna Ukrayina; Russian: Левобережная Украина, romanizedLevoberezhnaya Ukraina; Polish: Lewobrzeżna Ukraina) is a historic name of the part of Ukraine on the left (east) bank of the Dnieper River, comprising the modern-day oblasts of Chernihiv, Poltava and Sumy as well as the eastern parts of Kyiv and Cherkasy.

Left-bank Ukraine is bordered by the historical regions of Right-bank Ukraine to the southwest, Zaporizhzhia to the southeast, Sloboda Ukraine to the east, and Polesia and White Ruthenia to the north.


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