 In 1430, the Dykanka area came under the ownership of Tatar Murza Leksada Mansurksanovych, the future Prince Alexander Glinski, and, according to Leo Padalka and other pre-revolutionary (before 1917) historians, Dykanka was among his ″settlements″.Dykanka has held the status of urban-type settlement since 1957.Dykanka is the location of the short story collection "Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka" by Nikolai Gogol.