Bereza, Sumy Oblast

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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
village
Bereza school
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Coordinates: 51°44′08″N 33°52′01″E
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Sumy Oblast
Raion	Shostka Raion
Hromada	Bereza rural hromada
First mentioned	17th century
Population	1,371

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

1. "Березівська громада" [Bereza hromada]. gromada.info (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 31 December 2023.
2. "Береза, Глухівський район, Сумська область". History of Cities and Villages of the Ukrainian SSR (in Ukrainian). 17 July 2016. Retrieved 31 December 2023.
3. 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.
4. 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.