Bereza, Sumy Oblast

Village in Sumy Oblast, Ukraine

Bereza Береза
village
Bereza school
Flag Coat of arms
51°44′08″N 33°52′01″E / 51.73556°N 33.86694°E / 51.73556; 33.86694
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Sumy Oblast
Raion	Shostka Raion
Hromada	Bereza rural hromada
First mentioned	17th century
Population	1,371

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]

History

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 [uk].^[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

Oleksii Bohdanovych [uk], Ukrainian actor
Oksana Slipushko [uk], Ukrainian writer and professor of Ukrainian literature
Pavlo Sokyra [uk], Ukrainian bandurist

References

^ "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.