Vilshana (Ukrainian: Вільшана) is a rural settlement in Zvenyhorodka Raion, Cherkasy Oblast, central Ukraine.

[1] Archeological excavations have demonstrated that the area of Vilshana was inhabited over 5,000 years ago.

[3] Vilshana is first mentioned in written sources in 1598 as the town (mistechko) of Olshana.

As a result of the Holodomor, a manmade famine in Soviet Ukraine in 1932–1933, 82 people are confirmed to have died in Vilshana.

During World War II, Vilshana was occupied by Nazi Germany between 28 July 1941 and 5 February 1944.