Bereza
Береза | |
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![]() Bereza school | |
Coordinates: 51°44′08″N 33°52′01″E / 51.73556°N 33.86694°E | |
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Hromada | Bereza rural hromada |
First mentioned | 17th century |
Population | 1,371 |
Bereza (Ukrainian: Береза; Russian: Берёза, romanized: Beryoza) is a village in Shostka Raion, Sumy Oblast, in central Ukraine. It is the administrative centre of Bereza rural hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine, and has a population of 1,371 (as of 2023[update]).[1]
Bereza was first mentioned in the early 17th century. During the Russian Revolution of 1905 there was an uprising against the landlords of the village,[2] and prior to the 1917 Russian Revolution a church was sold to the village by the neighbouring village of Makove .[3]
The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic occupied the village in January 1918. In 1924 a kolkhoz was established in the village, named Zaporozhets.[2]
A memorial to the victims of the Holodomor was installed in the village in 2006.[4] There is also a memorial to Soviet soldiers who died during World War II.[2]