Moryntsi

Moryntsi (Ukrainian: Моринці) is a village (selo) in central Ukraine.

It is located in the Zvenyhorodka Raion (district) of the Cherkasy Oblast (province), approximately 35 km from the raion's administrative center, Zvenyhorodka.

[1] The Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko was born in Moryntsi in 1814.

The peasant house in which he was born has been restored and functions as a museum of his life.

Distribution of the population by native language according to the 2001 census:[2] Remains of the Chernyakhov culture have been found in the area of Moryntsi.