Biriukove

Coordinates: 47°57′N 39°44′E / 47.950°N 39.733°E / 47.950; 39.733

Biryukove (Ukrainian: Бірюкове; Russian: Бирюково, Biryukovo) is an urban-type settlement in Sverdlovsk Raion of Luhansk Oblast, a part of Ukraine. The Ukrainian government recognizes the settlement as Krynychne (Ukrainian: Криничне, Russian: Криничное). Population: 3,961 (2021 est.)^[1], 4,027 (2013 est.)^[2].

It is situated in 18 km from Sverdlovsk near the river , feeder of Seversky Donets. The nearest railway station, Dolzhanskaya, is situated in 12 km out of Biryukove. The villages of and are under subordination of Biryukove, because it is a center of Village Council.^[3]

History[]

Biryukove was found in 1778 by serfs from villages Rovenky and , as village Krinichnoe (Russian: Криничное).

In December 1917 Soviet government take a control under village.^[3]

In 1920 it was renamed in Biryukove, in honor of the Communist, chairman of the Council of Peasant Deputies Biryukov V.M., who was killed in March by local opponents of Soviet government.^[3]

About a thousand of citizens were participants of World War II, about 340 died, more than 700 were decorated.

In 1964 it got a status of urban-type settlement.

Since 2014, Biryukove has been administerd as a part of the de facto Luhansk People's Republic.^[4] On July 7, 2014, one Ukrainian border guard was wounded after a mortar attack on this town's checkpoint, south of Sverdlovsk, Luhansk Oblast.

Gallery[]

Commemorative plaque near the stele
Stele in honor of participants of World War II
Church of St. Mitrophan

References[]

^ "Чисельність наявного населення України (Actual population of Ukraine)" (PDF) (in Ukrainian). State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Retrieved 11 July 2021.
^ Чисельність наявного населення України [Actual population of Ukraine] (in Ukrainian). State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
^ ^a ^b ^c The History of cities and villages, 2009—2010. Volume Luhansk Oblast, p. 592 Archived October 13, 2010, at the Wayback Machine.
^ "Численность населения по состоянию на 1 октября 2015 года по Луганской Народной Республике" (PDF) (in Russian). Luhansk People's Republic. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-02-04. Retrieved 21 December 2015.

External links[]

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[ua2021estimate-1] "Чисельність наявного населення України (Actual population of Ukraine)" (PDF) (in Ukrainian). State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Retrieved 11 July 2021.

[ua2013estimate-2] Чисельність наявного населення України [Actual population of Ukraine] (in Ukrainian). State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Retrieved 21 January 2015.

[igsu-3] The History of cities and villages, 2009—2010. Volume Luhansk Oblast, p. 592 Archived October 13, 2010, at the Wayback Machine.

[4] "Численность населения по состоянию на 1 октября 2015 года по Луганской Народной Республике" (PDF) (in Russian). Luhansk People's Republic. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-02-04. Retrieved 21 December 2015.

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v t Administrative divisions of Luhansk Oblast
Administrative center: Luhansk
Raions	Alchevsk Dovzhansk Luhansk Rovenky Shchastia Sievierodonetsk Starobilsk Svatove
Hromadas
Cities	Almazna Alchevsk Antratsyt Artemivsk Brianka Chervonopartyzansk Hirske Irmino Kirovsk Krasnyi Luch Krasnodon Kreminna Luhansk Lutuhyne Lysychansk Miusynsk Molodohvardiisk Novodruzhesk Oleksandrivsk Perevalsk Pervomaisk Petrovske Popasna Pryvillia Rovenky Rubizhne Shchastia Sievierodonetsk Stakhanov Starobilsk Sverdlovsk Sukhodilsk Svatove Vakhrusheve Zolote Zorynsk Zymohiria
Urban-type settlements	Bilokurakyne Bilovodsk Biriukove Markivka Milove Novoaidar Novopskov Slovianoserbsk Stanytsia Luhanska Troitske