Official Name: | Bochechky |
Native Name: | Бочечки |
Native Name Lang: | uk |
Settlement Type: | village |
Pushpin Map: | Ukraine Sumy Oblast#Ukraine |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Bochechky in Sumy Oblast##Location of Bochechky in Ukraine |
Coordinates: | 51.3°N 33.4108°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Oblast |
Subdivision Type2: | Raion |
Subdivision Name2: | Konotop Raion |
Subdivision Type3: | Hromada |
Subdivision Name3: | Bochechky rural hromada |
Established Title: | First mentioned |
Established Date: | 1659 |
Population: | 1,679 |
Bochechky (Ukrainian: Бочечки) is a village in Konotop Raion, Sumy Oblast, Ukraine. It is the administrative centre of the Bochechky rural hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Its population is 1,679 .[1]
Bochechky was first mentioned in 1659.[2] Prior to the Emancipation reform of 1861 the majority of villagers were serfs under the Byrdyn, Lvov, or Yazuchevskyi families.[3] The Lvov family historically owned an 18th-century .[2]
Following the establishment of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, two kolkhozes were established in Bochechky. Two more were established between 1930 and 1931, as was a theatre and a library. 850 residents of the village died during World War II.[3]