Cherkaski Tyshky (; ) is a village in the
Kharkiv Raion
Kharkiv Raion () is a raion (district) of Kharkiv Oblast in eastern Ukraine. Its capital (political), administrative center is the city of Kharkiv. Population:
On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of rai ...
(
district
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) of Ukraine's
Kharkiv Region
Kharkiv Oblast (, ), also referred to as Kharkivshchyna (), is an oblast (province) in eastern Ukraine.
Kharkiv borders Luhansk Oblast to the east, Donetsk Oblast to the southeast, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast to the southwest, Poltava Oblast to the wes ...
. It is located about
north-east
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of
Kharkiv
Kharkiv, also known as Kharkov, is the second-largest List of cities in Ukraine, city in Ukraine. , the country's second largest city. To the north-east it borders the village of
Ruski Tyshky. Both belong to the Tsyrkuny rural hromada, one of the many
hromada
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s in Ukraine.
Geography
The village of Cherkaski Tyshky is located northeast of Kharkiv/ The village is located on the banks of the
Kharkov River (
Siverskyi Donets basin). Upstream, 1 km, is the village of
Tsyrkuny
Tsyrkuny () is a village in Kharkiv Raion (Raions of Ukraine, district) in Kharkiv Oblast of eastern Ukraine, at about Points of the compass#Compass point names, north-east from the centre of Kharkiv city. It hosts the administration of Tsyrku ...
.
Cherkaski Tyshky is located on the slopes of the
Central Russian Upland
The Central Russian Upland (also: Middle Russian Upland () and East European Upland) is an upland area of the East European Plain and is an undulating plateau with an average elevation of . Its highest peak is measured at . The southeastern porti ...
, in the forest-steppe natural zone. The climate of the territory has a temperate continental type with cold winters and hot summers. The average annual temperature is +8.7 °C (in January -4.5, in July +22). The average annual precipitation is 520 mm. The greatest amount of precipitation falls in summer.
[Сегіда К. Ю., Редін В. І., Чабань М. Т. Географія Харківської області: «Економічна та соціальна географія». – Харків, 2012. – 56 с. Retrieved 29 June 2025]
Around the village are summer cottages and broad-leaved and pine forests.
History
The village was first mentioned in 1660.
According to data in 1864, 2,078 people (1,011 male and 1,067 female) lived in the village, there were 251 farm households, an Orthodox church and a post office.
In 1914, the number of inhabitants in the village was 5,446.
After the Russian invasion
Since the
Russian invasion of Ukraine
On 24 February 2022, , starting the largest and deadliest war in Europe since World War II, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, conflict between the two countries which began in 2014. The fighting has caused hundreds of thou ...
the village was under Russian occupation until May 10, 2022.
"Russian forces occupied Cherkaski Tyshky on 24 February 2022, the first day of the invasion, and used it as a base from which to shell Kharkiv." After the village was liberated in May 2022, the Russian forces withdrew across the river and started shelling Cherkaski Tyshky from there.
"The destruction of Cherkaski Tyshky seen from the air", Tribunal for Putin, 26 October 2023
Retrieved 27 November 2023
References
External links
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Villages in Kharkiv Raion