CHERKASY, a town in the Shevchen (Cherkassk) area of the Ukrainian S.S.R., 49° 25' N., 32° 3' E. Pop. (1926) 38,563. It is situated near the right bank of the Dnieper, at the south eastern termination of a patch of forest. It has a radio-station and is on the north to south railway which links Chernigov with Odessa. The inhabitants (Little Russians) are employed in ag riculture and gardening. Sugar and tobacco are manufactured, and there are timber mills and veneering works and factories for nail and brick making. Cherkasy was an important town of the Ukraine in the i 5th century, and remained so, under Polish rule, until the revolt of the Cossack hetman, Chmielnicki (1648). It was annexed by Russia in