Moshny is a village of Cherkassy district, Cherkassy region. Its population was 4,799 people in 2001.
In the early ХХ century it was a shtetl of the Cherkassy uyezd, Kiev gubernia.
Moshny is situated sixteen miles west-northwest of Cherkasy, a short distance north of the Vilshanka River, and about five miles southwest of the Dnieper River.
Moshny was granted Magdeburg rights in 1592.
The Moshny Jewish community was primarily a Hasidic community. Its population in the late eighteenth century was a mere one-hundred-thirty.
There were several tragedies, not unique to a Ukrainian Jewish shtetl, that befell the Moshny Jews.
A fire in 1881 destroyed sixty Jewish homes.
In the early ХХ century, there were three synagogues and a Jewish cemetery in the village. We know where two of the synagogues were situated.
Before the Revolution a Jew named Lakhman had organized production of resin in the village. The locals still call this area “Lakhman”.
Jewish population of Moshny:
1897 – 1022 (13%)
1926 – 68
According to information from local historians there was a big tavern in the center of the village. Its owner helped more than 100 Jewish families immigrate to the USA.