Official Name: | Hrun |
Native Name: | Грунь |
Native Name Lang: | uk |
Settlement Type: | village |
Pushpin Map: | Ukraine Sumy Oblast#Ukraine |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Hrun in Sumy Oblast##Location of Hrun in Ukraine |
Coordinates: | 50.2378°N 34.6025°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Oblast |
Subdivision Type2: | Raion |
Subdivision Name2: | Okhtyrka Raion |
Subdivision Type3: | Hromada |
Subdivision Name3: | Hrun rural hromada |
Established Title: | First mentioned |
Established Date: | 1665 |
Population: | 2,220 |
Hrun (Ukrainian: Грунь) is a village in Okhtyrka Raion, in Ukraine's central Sumy Oblast. It is the administrative centre of Hrun rural hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Its population is 2,220 .[1]
Hrun was first mentioned in 1665.[2] Under the Cossack Hetmanate it was the capital of the, part of the Hadiach Regiment.[3]
The village was taken over by the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic in December 1917. An Association for Joint Cultivation of Land named Zghoda was also established in the village in 1924. During World War II 295 residents of Hrun were killed.[2]
Until 1959 Hrun was the centre of . After the raion was abolished, the village became part of Okhtyrka Raion.[4]