BOGODUKHOV, a town in the Kharkov province of the Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic. Lat. 5o° 9' N., Long. 35° 33' E. Pop. (1926) 16,013. It is on the railway and has a radio station. It is the centre of a market gardening area and trades in grain, cattle and fish and has koustar (peasant) leather industries. It was a settlement in 1571, and was captured by Menshikov and the Emperor Alexius in the Russo-Swedish war, 1709. Its cathe dral was built