Bereza (Ukrainian: Береза; Russian: Берёза, romanized: Beryoza) is a village in Shostka Raion, Sumy Oblast, in central Ukraine. It is the administrative centre of Bereza rural hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine, and has a population of 1,371 (as of 2023[update]).[1]
Bereza
Береза | |
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 Bereza school | |
 Flag  Coat of arms | |
  Bereza Location of Bereza in Sumy Oblast  Bereza Location of Bereza in Ukraine | |
| Coordinates: 51°44′08″N 33°52′01″E / 51.73556°N 33.86694°E | |
| Country |  Ukraine |
| Oblast |  Sumy Oblast |
| Raion |  Shostka Raion |
| Hromada | Bereza rural hromada |
| First mentioned | 17th century |
| Population | 1,371 |
History edit
Bereza was first mentioned in the early 17th century. During the Russian Revolution of 1905 there was an uprising against the landlords of the village,[2] and prior to the 1917 Russian Revolution a church was sold to the village by the neighbouring village of Makove.[3]
The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic occupied the village in January 1918. In 1924 a kolkhoz was established in the village, named Zaporozhets.[2]
A memorial to the victims of the Holodomor was installed in the village in 2006.[4] There is also a memorial to Soviet soldiers who died during World War II.[2]
Notable people edit
- Oleksii Bohdanovych, Ukrainian actor
- Oksana Slipushko, Ukrainian writer and professor of Ukrainian literature
- Pavlo Sokyra, Ukrainian bandurist
References edit
- ^ "Березівська громада" [Bereza hromada]. gromada.info (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 31 December 2023.
- ^ a b c "Береза, Глухівський район, Сумська область". History of Cities and Villages of the Ukrainian SSR (in Ukrainian). 17 July 2016. Retrieved 31 December 2023.
- ^ Kyryievskyi, Viacheslav (13 July 2022). "Кириєвський В'ячеслав. Десять церков Воронізької сотні в селах: Клишки, Чепліївка, Лушники, Собич, Пирогівка, Богданівка, Ображіївка, Локотки, Миронівка, Макове" [Viacheslav Kyryievskyi: Ten churches of the hundred eagles in villages: Klyshky, Chepliivka, Lushnyky, Sobych, Pyrohivka, Bohdanivka, Obrazhiivka, Lokotky, Myronivka, Makove]. Sumy Historical Portal (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 31 December 2023.
- ^ Piatachenko, S. V. "Голодомор на Сумщині у спогадах очевидців: збірник матеріалів (Книга друга)" [The Holodomor in Sumshchyna in eyewitness memories: collection of materials (Book 2)] (PDF). Chtyvo (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 31 December 2023.