Birky (Smijiw)
| Birky (Smijiw) | |||
| Бірки | |||
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| Oblast : | Kharkiv Oblast | ||
| Rajon : | Smiyiv Raion | ||
| Height : | 126 m | ||
| Area : | 1.31 km² | ||
| Residents : | 2,936 (2001) | ||
| Population density : | 2,241 inhabitants per km² | ||
| Postcodes : | 63421 | ||
| Area code : | +380 5754 | ||
| Geographic location : | 49 ° 43 ' N , 36 ° 3' E | ||
| KOATUU : | 6321780501 | ||
| Administrative structure : | 11 villages | ||
| Address: | вул. Шкільна буд. 3 63421 с. Бірки |
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| Website : | City council website | ||
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Birky ( Ukrainian Бірки ; Russian Борки Borki ) is a village in the Ukrainian Oblast of Kharkiv with about 2900 inhabitants (2001).
The village, founded in 1659, lies between the Mscha ( Мжа ), a 77 km long right tributary of the Siwerskyi Donets and the Jhun ( Jgun ), an 18 km long right tributary of the Wilchuwatka 8 km north of the urban-type settlement Birky , 25 km to the west from the district center of Smiyiv and about 40 km southwest of the oblast center of Kharkiv .
The regional road P-51 (former territorial road T-21-07 ) and the railway line Sevastopol – Kharkiv runs through the village . Birky station is located on the railway line in the village . / October 29, 1888 greg. the railway accident at Borki took place, in which the Russian Emperor Alexander III. and his family members were unharmed, but 23 other passengers were killed. At the site of the accident, the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Birky ( Ukrainian: Храм Христа Спасителя в Бірках ) was built in 1891-1894, thanks to the preservation of the imperial family, which was later destroyed as a result of the Second World War .
local community
The village is the administrative center of the 97.966 km² district council of the same name in the west of Smijiw Rajon , to which the following villages also belong:
- Jhun ( Джгун , ⊙ ) with about 80 inhabitants
- Fedorivka ( Федорівка , ⊙ ) with about 220 inhabitants
- Huschwynske ( Гужвинське , ⊙ ) with about 50 inhabitants
- Krawzowe ( Кравцове , ⊙ ) with about 70 inhabitants
- Kukuliwka ( Кукулівка , ⊙ ) with about 80 inhabitants
- Kyrjuchy ( Кирюхи , ⊙ ) with about 10 inhabitants
- Kysle ( Кисле , ⊙ ) with about 50 inhabitants
- Perschotrawnewe ( Першотравневе , ⊙ ) with about 2200 inhabitants
- Pohorile ( Погоріле , ⊙ ) with about 110 inhabitants
- Salisnytschni Birky ( Залізничні Бірки , ⊙ ) with about 100 inhabitants
Personalities
The ethnographer, editor and wife of the Ukrainian writer Iwan Franko Olha Fedorivna Franko, née Choruschynska ( Ukrainian Ольга Федорівна Франко (Хоружинська) ; † 1941) was born in the village in 1864.
Web links
- Local history Birky in the history of cities and villages of the Ukrainian SSR (Ukrainian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Local website on the official website of the Verkhovna Rada ; accessed on November 2, 2017 (Ukrainian)
- ^ Website of the district council on the official website of the Verkhovna Rada; accessed on November 2, 2017 (Ukrainian)
- ↑ "The first wreath" on i-franko.name ; accessed on November 3, 2017 (Ukrainian)
- ↑ Ольга Хоружинська-Франко on uahistory.com ; accessed on November 3, 2017 (Ukrainian)