Biriukove

(Redirected from Biryukove)

Biriukove (Ukrainian: Бірюкове; Russian: Бирюково, romanizedBiryukovo) or Krynychne (Ukrainian: Криничне, Russian: Криничное, romanizedKrinichnoye) is a rural settlement in Dovzhansk urban hromada, Dovzhansk Raion (district) of Luhansk Oblast in Ukraine. Population: 3,951 (2022 estimate)[1], 4,027 (2013 est.)[2].

Biriukove
Бірюкове
Church of St. Mitrophan in Biriukove
Church of St. Mitrophan in Biriukove
Biriukove is located in Luhansk Oblast
Biriukove
Biriukove
Biriukove is located in Ukraine
Biriukove
Biriukove
Coordinates: 47°57′16″N 39°44′13″E / 47.95444°N 39.73694°E / 47.95444; 39.73694
Country Ukraine
Oblast Luhansk Oblast
RaionDovzhansk Raion
HromadaDovzhansk urban hromada
Population
 • Estimate 
(2022)
3,951

It is situated in 18 km from Sverdlovsk near the river Kundryuchya, a tributary of the Donets. The nearest railway station, Dolzhanskaya, is situated in 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) out of Biryukove. The nearby villages Bratske [uk] and Dovzhanske [uk] are subordinated to Biriukove, because it is a center of the village council.[3]

Geography

edit

Biriukove is located on the left bank of the Kundryuchya river, near the source.[4]

History

edit

Burial mounds dating back to the Bronze Age have been uncovered near Biriukove.[3]

Biriukove was founded in 1778 by serfs from the villages Rovenky and Krasnovka, as the village Krynychne.[5][4]

During the Russian Civil War, the Bolsheviks established control over Krynychne in December 1917, incorporating it into the Soviet Union. In March 1920, the Communist chairman of the village council, a man named M. Biriukov, was allegedly murdered by "kulaks".[3][6] Krynychne was renamed to Biriukove in his honor in 1921.[3][4]

About a thousand citizens of Biriukove were participants in World War II. About 340 of them died, while 780 were decorated with awards.[3] A monument named "Motherland" was erected in honor of the soldiers who died.[5]

In 1964, Biriukove received urban-type settlement status.[4][3]

Since 2014, Biryukove has been occupied by the unrecognized state the Luhansk People's Republic.[7][better source needed] On July 7, 2014, one Ukrainian border guard was wounded after a mortar attack on this town's checkpoint, south of Sverdlovsk, Luhansk Oblast.[citation needed]

In 2016, the settlement was renamed by the Verkhovna Rada back to Krynychne as part of decommunization in Ukraine.[8]

Culture

edit

There is a Church of St. Mitrophan in the town, which denominationally belongs to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate).[5]

Demographics

edit
Population history
YearPop.±%
2001 4,414[5]—    
2013 4,027[2]−8.8%
2022 3,951[1]−1.9%

As of the 2001 Ukrainian census, there were 4414 people in Biriukove, of whom 60% were Ukrainians, 39% were Russians, and 1% were of other ethnicities.[5]

edit

References

edit
  1. ^ a b Чисельність наявного населення України на 1 січня 2022 [Number of Present Population of Ukraine, as of January 1, 2022] (PDF) (in Ukrainian and English). Kyiv: State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 July 2022.
  2. ^ a b Чисельність наявного населення України [Actual population of Ukraine] (in Ukrainian). State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Archived from the original on 2014-02-02. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
  3. ^ a b c d e f "The History of cities and villages, 2009—2010. Volume Luhansk Oblast, p. 592". Archived from the original on October 13, 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  4. ^ a b c d Cohen, Saul Bernard (2008). "Biryukove". The Columbia Gazetteer of the World: A to G. Columbia University Press. p. 435. ISBN 978-0-231-14554-1.
  5. ^ a b c d e Лисенко, А. В. (2004-02-01). "Бірюкове". ЕНЦИКЛОПЕДІЯ СУЧАСНОЇ УКРАЇНИ (in Ukrainian). Vol. 3. Інститут енциклопедичних досліджень НАН України. ISBN 978-966-02-2074-4.
  6. ^ "Бірюкове, Свердловський район, Луганська область". Історія міст і сіл Української РСР (in Ukrainian).
  7. ^ "Численность населения по состоянию на 1 октября 2015 года по Луганской Народной Республике" (PDF) (in Russian). Luhansk People's Republic. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-02-04. Retrieved 21 December 2015.
  8. ^ "Resolution of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine No 1351-VIII: On renaming of some localities and districts in the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions".
edit