Koryukivka

Koryukivka
Корюківка
	Koryukivka
Basic data
Oblast :	Chernihiv Oblast
Rajon :	Koryukivka Raion
Height :	no information
Area :	15.09 km²
Residents :	12,693 (2019)
Population density :	841 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes :	15300-15304
Area code :	+380 4657
Geographic location :	51 ° 46 '  N , 32 ° 15'  E Coordinates: 51 ° 46 '7 "  N , 32 ° 15' 14"  E
KOATUU :	7422410100
Administrative structure :	1 city, 2 villages
Address:	вул. Бульварна буд. 6 15300 м. Корюківка
Website :	City council website
Statistical information
Koryukivka

Koriukivka ( Ukrainian Корюківка ; Russian Корюковка Korjukowka ) is a city in the Oblast Chernihiv the Ukraine and the center of the same name Rajons with 12,700 inhabitants (2019).

Administratively, in addition to the city, the municipality includes the 2 villages Lebiddja ( Лебіддя ) and Trudowyk ( Трудовик ). In Koryukivka, the T-25-36 territorial road meets the T-25-12 .

history

The settlement was founded in 1657 by settlers from right-bank Ukraine . Among them was the Cossack Korjuka , from whom the name of the village goes back.

In 1958 Koryukivka received city status.

Massacre and Destruction 1943

During the Second World War , on March 1 and 2, 1943, a mass murder of 6,700 civilians by Hungarian military police units occurred in the village as a counter-action against the activity of Soviet partisans headed by Oleksiy Fedorov , an officer of the NKVD of the USSR .

According to the historian Dmytro Vedeneev , based mainly on Soviet documents, namely the act of the Chernihiv Regional Commission on the Establishment and Investigation of the Crimes of Nazi German Occupiers in Koryukivka (December 17, 1943), the mass murder was carried out by the SS and the Ukrainians Protection team perpetrated. The number of perpetrators of this war crime is 300 to 500 people.

At the request of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory , the Federal Agency for Security of the Russian Federation announced the following with the official letter on the immediate perpetrator of the massacre: The shooting of civilians, the destruction of the villages and other war crimes on the territory of Chernihiv Oblast were carried out from October 1942 to Perpetrated on September 1st, 1943 by members of the Army of the Light Division 105 of the Hungarian Eastern Army Group according to the instructions of the Commander Lieutenant General Aldj-Papp Zoltan Johann (born in Budapest in 1895 ). In total, the Hungarian troops took part in the extermination of up to 60 thousand civilians in the Chernihiv region. part. The order to start the retaliatory action was given by the chief of staff at Hauptfeldkommandantur 399 Beyer Bruno Franz (born 1888 in Kassel ).

Population development

Population development

1923	1926	1939	1959	1970	1979	1989	2001	2010	2019
5,932	6,609	9,744	9,625	9,837	12.004	14,247	14.318	13,416	12,693

Source:

Individual evidence

1. ^ Local history of Korjukiwka in the history of the cities and villages of the Ukrainian SSR ; accessed on May 9, 2020 (Ukrainian)
2. ↑ Ukrainian Institute of National Memory - Historical Information. Кубань-Украина, accessed September 25, 2013 (Russian). 
3. ↑ Дмитро Вєдєнєєв: Корюківка. Імена нацистських катів стають відомі. In: Історична правда. 1st of March 2013.
4. ↑ Magyar megszállás a Szovjetunióban. oroszvilag.hu, accessed September 25, 2013 (Hungarian). 
5. ↑ Cities and Settlements in Ukraine on pop-stat.mashke.org ; accessed on May 9, 2020

literature

• Dieter Pohl : Persecution and mass murder in the Nazi era 1933–1945. 3., bibliogr. updated edition. WBG, Darmstadt 2011, ISBN 978-3-534-24026-5 .