Nizhyn Raion
Nizhyn Raion () is a Raions of Ukraine, raion (district) of Chernihiv Oblast, northern Ukraine. Its administrative centre is located at Nizhyn. Population:
On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions ...
,
Chernihiv Oblast
Chernihiv Oblast (), also referred to as Chernihivshchyna (), is an administrative divisions of Ukraine, oblast (province) in northern Ukraine. The capital city, administrative center of the oblast is the city of Chernihiv. There are 1,511 sett ...
. It hosts the administration of
Nova Basan rural hromada
Nova Basan rural hromada () is a hromada of Ukraine, located in Nizhyn Raion, Chernihiv Oblast. Its administrative center is the village of Nova Basan.
It has an area of and a population of 6,132, as of 2020.
Composition
The hromada contains ...
, 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.
History
The history of Nova Basan dates back at least as far as the middle of the 15th century, when it was a border fortress of the
Grand Duchy of Lithuania
The Grand Duchy of Lithuania was a sovereign state in northeastern Europe that existed from the 13th century, succeeding the Kingdom of Lithuania, to the late 18th century, when the territory was suppressed during the 1795 Partitions of Poland, ...
. In 1897, a post office was opened in Nova Basan. According to the Russian Empire Census of 1897, it had a population 7326, of whom 3460 were men and 3866 women. 6930 were Orthodox.
During the
2022 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 occupied by
Russia
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after the initial invasion but was retaken by
Ukraine
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in early April.
Demographics
According to the 1989 USSR Census, the village had a population of 4017, of whom 1700 were men and 2317 women.
According to the
2001 Ukrainian census
The 2001 Ukrainian census is to date the only census of the population of independent Ukraine. It was conducted by the State Statistics Committee of Ukraine on 5 December 2001, twelve years after the last Soviet Union census in 1989.Yurii Hlushko-Mova (1882 —1942), Ukrainian public and political figure.
* Lev Biryuk, Ukrainian politician.
*
Vasyl Lopata
Vasyl Ivanovych Lopata (; born in Nova Basan, Bobrovytsia Raion, Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR, on April 28, 1941) is a Ukrainian artist and prose writer. He is a member of the National Union of Artists of ...