Birky

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Birky (disambiguation) .

Birky
Бірки
	Birky
Basic data
Oblast :	Kharkiv Oblast
Rajon :	Nowa Wodolaha district
Height :	no information
Area :	1.35 km²
Residents :	557 (2015)
Population density :	413 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes :	63220
Area code :	Information is missing
Geographic location :	49 ° 41 '  N , 36 ° 3'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 41 '22 "  N , 36 ° 2' 36"  E
KOATUU :	6324255300
Administrative structure :	1 urban-type settlement , 4 villages
Address:	вул. Фрунзе 4 63220 смт. Бірки
Statistical information
Birky

Birky ( Ukrainian Бірки ; Russian Борки Borki ) is an urban-type settlement in the center of the Ukrainian Oblast of Kharkiv with around 500 inhabitants (2015).

The village, founded in 1659, received the status of an urban-type settlement in 1938 and is the administrative center of the settlement council of the same name within the Nowa Wodolaha district .

Unfinished infrastructure for the planned thermal power station in Birky

Birky is located on the P 51 regional road and the Sevastopol – Kharkiv railway line 17 km east of the Nova Wodolaha district center and 43 km south of the Kharkiv oblast center . At the end of the Soviet Union, the Kharkiv ATEZ ( Харківська АТЕЦ ) nuclear power plant was to be built near the settlement . After the construction of the infrastructure began, the project was canceled.

The settlement council community Birky, which has a total of about 2300 inhabitants and an area of 68.72 square kilometers, yet the villages are Lypkuwatiwka ( Липкуватівка ⊙ ) with about 1500 inhabitants, Rjabuchyne ( Рябухине ⊙ ) with about 150 inhabitants, Wassyliwske ( Василівське ⊙ ) with about 60 inhabitants and Kljutschewodske ( Ключеводське ⊙ ) with about 15 residents.

At the train station in the village of Birky , 8 km to the north, the Borki railway accident took place in 1888 , in which 23 passengers died, the Russian emperor Alexander III who was traveling with them . (Russia) and his family members were not injured.

Web links

• Entry on the place in the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine (Ukrainian)
• Local history Birky in the history of cities and villages of the Ukrainian SSR (Ukrainian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Demographics of Ukrainian cities on pop-stat.mashke.org, accessed on October 5, 2015
2. ↑ Kharkiv Nuclear Power Plant , accessed October 6, 2015