Dvorichne (, ) is a

village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...

Kupiansk Raion Kupiansk Raion () is a raion (district) in Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine. The administrative center of the raion is the city of Kupiansk. Population: On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Kharkiv Ob ...

Kharkiv Oblast 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 w ...

, Ukraine. It belongs to

Dvorichna settlement hromada The Dvorichna settlement hromada (, ) is a hromada in the Kupiansk Raion, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine. The hromada was created on 12 June 2020, and is centrally administered by the urban-type settlement of Dvorichna, being the local government for 5 ...

, one of the

hromada In Ukraine, a hromada () is the main type of municipality and the third level Administrative divisions of Ukraine, local self-government in Ukraine. The current hromadas were established by the Cabinet of ministers of Ukraine, Government of Uk ...

s of Ukraine. The village has a pre-war population of 326 people, and is most notable for which resides in the middle of the village. During 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 would become a frontline settlement after the

2022 Ukrainian eastern counteroffensive On September 6, 2022, the Armed Forces of Ukraine launched a major counteroffensive against the Russian military during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. As Ukraine announced the start of the Kherson counteroffensive in southern Ukraine in late ...

in September 2022, and would remain largely contested until Russian forces pushed the last Ukrainian forces from the settlement on 10 February 2023. The village remains under Russian control as of May 2023.

Geography

Dvorichne is located on the left bank of the

Oskil river The Oskil or Oskol (; ) is a south-flowing river in Russia and Ukraine. It arises roughly between Kursk and Voronezh and flows south to join the Siverskyi Donets which flows southeast to join the Don. It is long, with a drainage basin of .

, where it is situated next to the and about upstream from the and tributaries. The village is adjacent to the downstream villages of Hrianykivka and Horobivka, and is surrounded by forest. Most notably, the village is home to , which is the only railway station in the area.

History

Between 1932 and 1933, the village suffered a large reduction in population during the

Holodomor The Holodomor, also known as the Ukrainian Famine, was a mass famine in Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 that killed millions of Ukrainians. The Holodomor was part of the wider Soviet famine of 1930–193 ...

famine, which in a combined casualty count killed 113 in Dvorichne and ten other small settlements nearby. On 12 June 2020; Decree No. 725-r of the

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placed the village in the administration of the , and on 17 July became part of the

as a result of administrative-territorial reform which abolished the

Dvorichna Raion Dvorichna Raion () was a raion (district) in Kharkiv Oblast of Ukraine. Its administrative center was the urban-type settlement of Dvorichna. The raion was abolished on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced t ...

Russian invasion of Ukraine

In the

, the village was occupied by Russian troops during their initial advance into the nation. It became a frontline village after the settlement was successfully recaptured sometime in September by Ukrainian forces during the

. The village would change hands multiple times from then, largely remaining contested until it definitively came under partial Russian control on 4 February, when Ukrainian forces were pushed out of the western outskirts of the village. This progress of the Russian forces was continued on 8 February, until the village came under full Russian control on 10 February, where it remains as of May 2023. See the detailed map. Despite the Russian capture, the village still comes under artillery fire with the frontline still not far away.

Notable people

* (1820–1871), Ukrainian poet, author of

burlesque A burlesque is a literary, dramatic or musical work intended to cause laughter by caricaturing the manner or spirit of serious works, or by ludicrous treatment of their subjects.

poems and fables.

References

{{Portal bar, Cities, Ukraine Populated places established in 1825 Villages in Kupiansk Raion

Geography

History

Russian invasion of Ukraine

Notable people

See also

References