Pisky (Buryn)

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Pisky
Піски
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Pisky (Ukraine)
Pisky
Pisky
Basic data
Oblast : Sumy Oblast
Rajon : Buryn district
Height : 132 m
Area : Information is missing
Residents : 1,191 (2001)
Postcodes : 41720
Area code : +380 5454
Geographic location : 51 ° 13 '  N , 34 ° 5'  E Coordinates: 51 ° 13 '17 "  N , 34 ° 4' 39"  E
KOATUU : 5920985401
Administrative structure : 2 villages
Address: вул. Гагаріна буд. 1
41720 с. Піски,
Website : City council website
Statistical information
Pisky (Sumy Oblast)
Pisky
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Pisky ( Ukrainian Піски ; Russian Пески Peski ) is a village in the Ukrainian Sumy Oblast with about 1200 inhabitants (2001).

In the village, first mentioned in writing in the 17th century , a memorial was built in 2007 to commemorate the 1185 victims of the Holodomor , which corresponded to almost two thirds of the village population at that time. At the beginning of the 1970s the village had 2240 inhabitants.

Pisky is the administrative center of the district council of the same name in the north-east of Buryn Rajon , to which the village of Novyj Myr ( Новий Мир , ) with about 30 inhabitants, 2 kilometers south, belongs.

The village is located at an altitude of 132  m at the mouth of the Vyshlytsia ( Вижлиця ) in the Seim , 20 km east of the Buryn district center and 64 km northwest of the Sumy oblast center . The regional road P-44 runs through the village .

Individual evidence

  1. Local website on the official website of the Verkhovna Rada ; accessed on November 14, 2019 (Ukrainian)
  2. a b Local history of Pisky in the history of the cities and villages of the Ukrainian SSR ; accessed on November 14, 2019 (Ukrainian)
  3. The number of victims is 1185 on memorialholodomor.org.ua ; accessed on November 14, 2019 (Ukrainian)
  4. Memorial for the victims of Holodomor in Pisky on ua.igotoworld.com ; accessed on November 14, 2019 (Ukrainian)
  5. ^ Website of the district council on the official website of the Verkhovna Rada; accessed on November 14, 2019 (Ukrainian)