Berezan (city)

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Berezan
Березань
Beresan coat of arms
Berezan (Ukraine)
Berezan
Berezan
Basic data
Oblast : Kiev Oblast
Rajon : District-free city
Height : 105 m
Area : 32.92 km²
Residents : 16,585 (2018)
Population density : 504 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes : 07540-07543
Area code : +380 4476
Geographic location : 50 ° 19 ′  N , 31 ° 28 ′  E Coordinates: 50 ° 19 ′ 11 "  N , 31 ° 28 ′ 12"  E
KOATUU : 3210400000
Administrative structure : 1 city
Address: вул. Небесної Сотні 1
07540 м. Березань
Website : http://www.berezan.in.ua/
Statistical information
Berezan (Kiev Oblast)
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Beresan ( Ukrainian and Russian Березань ) is an independent city in the east of the Ukrainian Oblast of Kiev with around 16,500 inhabitants (2018).

history

Church of the Annunciation in Berezan

The town, first mentioned in 1616, received urban-type settlement status in 1965 and town status in 1981. Since 1993 it has been directly subordinate to the oblast.

The village was visited in October 1843 by Taras Shevchenko , who was here with the ethnographer and folklorist Platon Lukashevich ( Платон Якимович Лукашевич ; 1809-1887) as a guest. Beresan was occupied by Wehrmacht troops between September 16, 1941 and September 21, 1943 .

Geographical location

Beresan lies in the middle of the Rajon Baryschiwka at an altitude of 105  m on the bank of the Nedra ( Недра ), a 61 km long, left tributary of the Trubisch , about 70 km east of Kiev . The M 03 / E 40 highway runs through the city between Kiev and Kharkiv . North of the city center, Berezan has had a train station on the Kiev – Poltava line since 1901 .

Partnerships

Web links

Commons : Berezan  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cities and Settlements in Ukraine on pop-stat.mashke.org ; accessed on December 22, 2018
  2. ↑ a b Local history of Beresan in the history of the cities and villages of the Ukrainian SSR ; accessed on 2018 (ukrainian)