Byshkin

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Byshkin
Бишкінь
Coat of arms is missing
Byschkin (Ukraine)
Byshkin
Byshkin
Basic data
Oblast : Sumy Oblast
Rajon : Lebedyn district
Height : 122 m
Area : Information is missing
Residents : 915 (2001)
Postcodes : 42245
Area code : +380 5445
Geographic location : 50 ° 38 '  N , 34 ° 37'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 37 '43 "  N , 34 ° 37' 19"  E
KOATUU : 5922980401
Administrative structure : 4 villages
Address: вул. Будівельна буд. 10
42245 с. Бишкінь
Website : City council website
Statistical information
Byshkin (Sumy Oblast)
Byshkin
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Byschkin ( Ukrainian Бишкінь ; Russian Бишкинь Bischkin ) is a village in the Ukrainian Sumy Oblast with about 900 inhabitants (2001).

Ruins of the St. Demetrius Church in Byshkin
Church interior

The village, founded in 1678 by settlers from the Smijiw district ( Зміївський повіт ), was from 1780 in Sloboda-Ukraine in the Kharkov governorate of the Russian Empire . In memory of the Holodomor in 1932/33, who found 27 victims in the village, a memorial was erected in the village. During the Battle of Kursk in July 1943, the 40th Army of the Red Army took the village.

Byschkin is the administrative center of the same District municipality in the northeast of Rayon Lebedyn to the still villages Owdjanske ( Овдянське , ) with about 5 inhabitants, Rewky ( Ревки , ) with about 110 inhabitants and Schtschetyny ( Щетини , ) with about 10 Residents belong.

The village is located at an altitude of 122  m on the left bank of the Psel , a left tributary of the Dnepr , 12 km northeast of the Lebedyn district center and 38 km south of the Sumy oblast center . Territorial road T-19-19 runs through the village .

Individual evidence

  1. Local website on the official website of the Verkhovna Rada ; accessed on April 12, 2020 (Ukrainian)
  2. history Byschkin in the history of the towns and villages of the Ukrainian SSR ; accessed on April 12, 2020 (Ukrainian)
  3. Byschkin History on the website of the Central State Archive of Ukraine, Kiev; accessed on April 12, 2020 (Ukrainian)
  4. Byschkin on map.memorialholodomor ; accessed on April 12, 2020 (Ukrainian)
  5. ^ Battle of Kursk: Chronicle, Facts, People, page 270; accessed on April 12, 2020 (Russian)
  6. ^ Website of the district council on the official website of the Verkhovna Rada; accessed on April 12, 2020 (Ukrainian)