Hadiach[a] (Ukrainian: Гадяч, romanized: Had'ač, pronounced [ˈɦɑdʲɐt͡ʃ]) is a city in Myrhorod Raion, Poltava Oblast in the central-east part of Ukraine.
[2] In addition to the Ukrainian Гадяч (Hadiach), in other languages the name of the city is Russian: Гaдяч, romanized: Gadyach, Polish: Hadziacz and Yiddish: האדיטש.
It was a city of Kiev Voivodeship, Cossack Hetmanate, and Poltava Governorate.
Hadiach is one of the main points of interest to Hasidic Jews visiting Ukraine due to the old cemetery that is on the river running through the city, where Shneur Zalman of Liadi is buried.
[citation needed] Distribution of the population by native language according to the 2001 census:[5] The main characters in Nikolai Gogol's story Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka and His Aunt are from Hadiach (Gadyach in the 1957 translation by David Magarshack).