Field of the Battle of Pyliavtsi, Pyliava
The rout of the Commonwealth army on the Ikva in September 1648 — the Cossacks took 92 cannon and Zasławski's mace.
On 11–13 September 1648 by the old style, at Pyliavtsi on the Ikva, Bohdan Khmelnytsky's army routed the army of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth; the fight for the dam changed hands several times. Against Khmelnytsky's roughly 50,000-strong army with a 4,000-man detachment of Budjak Tatars stood 32,000 nobles and soldiers and 8,000 German mercenaries. The Polish army fled, abandoning its baggage train: the Cossacks took 92 cannon and the mace of Prince Zasławski, and the value of the spoils exceeded seven million zloty; the sources give no exact figures for human losses. The outcome was the liberation of Volhynia and Podillia. The exact site of the battle is disputed — Pyliava or neighbouring Pyliavka. On site: a monument in Pyliava's central square, the Mound of Cossack Glory with a cross in the field beyond the village, and the grave of Ivan Hanzha, colonel of Uman.
The square and the mound are accessible around the clock. The coordinate is the village centre; the community commemorates the battle at the mound every year in the second half of September.