Name: Village Rakitnoye Status: Administrative center of the Rakitnoye Village community of the Belotserkovsky district of the Kyiv region. Location: 95 km to the regional center Population: 11467 Area: 130 sq. km Reservoirs: r. Ros, r. Rokita Year founded: 1518 Historical information: The village was founded in 1518. It was first mentioned in 1590 (In 1590, the hetman of the registered Cossacks, Kryshtof Kosinsky, together with other representatives of the Cossack elders, received a gift from the king for the Rakitnoye estate in Belotserkovshchina). During the Hetmanate it was a Polish border town. It belonged to the Branitskys, whose estate was located on Bozha Mountain between Rokitny and Olshanitsa. This mountain is famous for the fact that the leader of the tribal union of the Ants, Bozh, was treacherously killed here. Since 1654, it has been the capital city of the Kanevsky regiment. On March 16, 1664, Hetman Vigovsky was executed in Rakitnoye. The name comes from the “Rakita” bush - a willow tree that grows along the banks of the Rakita and Ros rivers. Rakitnoe suffered greatly from the Mongol-Tatar invasion. In the second half of the 16th century. Ukrainian Cossacks lived in Rakitnoye. Rakitne is the site of the Cossack-peasant anti-Polish uprising of 1590-1593. which began as a personal conflict for the rights to Rakitnoye between K. Kosinsky and the Belo Tserkva elder Y. Ostrozhsky. In 1648-1712. Rakitnoye was the town of the Belotserkovsky regiment. In 1686, Rokitne became part of Poland. After the second partition of Poland (1793), the Rokitnyan region became part of the Russian Empire and was assigned to the Vasilkovsky district of the Kyiv province. On the territory of the region there are archaeological monuments: the remains of the Serpentine Ramparts, defensive fortifications from the times of Kievan Rus (Peschanoe tract, Rakitnoye village) the remains of the chronicle city of Torchesk (XI-XIII centuries); remains of 11 mounds from the Chernyakhov culture.