Official Name: | Bereza |
Native Name: | Береза |
Native Name Lang: | uk |
Settlement Type: | village |
Pushpin Map: | Ukraine Sumy Oblast#Ukraine |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Bereza in Sumy Oblast##Location of Bereza in Ukraine |
Coordinates: | 51.7356°N 33.8669°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Oblast |
Subdivision Type2: | Raion |
Subdivision Name2: | Shostka Raion |
Subdivision Type3: | Hromada |
Subdivision Name3: | Bereza rural hromada |
Established Title: | First mentioned |
Established Date: | 17th century |
Population: | 1,371 |
Bereza (Ukrainian: Береза; Russian: Берёза|translit=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 .[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 .[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]