Novyi Bykiv (, ) is a village in

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 ...

(

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) of

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. It belongs to

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

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s of Ukraine. Population is 2,024 (2006).

History

The earliest known references on Novyi Bykiv is of 1621. The mounds of the

Bronze Age The Bronze Age () was a historical period characterised principally by the use of bronze tools and the development of complex urban societies, as well as the adoption of writing in some areas. The Bronze Age is the middle principal period of ...

(II millennium B.C.) and Gord of

Kievan Rus' Kievan Rus', also known as Kyivan Rus,. * was the first East Slavs, East Slavic state and later an amalgam of principalities in Eastern Europe from the late 9th to the mid-13th century.John Channon & Robert Hudson, ''Penguin Historical At ...

(11th century) were found near the village. During the

Second World War World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

, the village was occupied by the troops of the

Third Reich Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictat ...

in 1941-1943. In the first days, the German occupiers, with the help of local collaborators ("policai"), shot members of the ruling party (at that time, the All-Union Communist Party (

Bolsheviks The Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, were a radical Faction (political), faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) which split with the Mensheviks at the 2nd Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, ...

)). The list of Novy Bykov residents who died in the

German-Soviet war The Eastern Front, also known as the Great Patriotic War (term), Great Patriotic War in the Soviet Union and its successor states, and the German–Soviet War in modern Germany and Ukraine, was a Theater (warfare), theatre of World War II ...

, on the stele in the center of the village, includes 422 people. Until 18 July 2020, Novyi Bykiv belonged to

Bobrovytsia Raion Bobrovytsia Raion () was a raion (district) of Chernihiv Oblast, northern Ukraine. Its administrative centre was located at the city of Bobrovytsia. The raion was abolished on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which r ...

. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Chernihiv Oblast to five. The area of Bobrovytsia Raion was merged into Nizhyn Raion. In 2022, 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 was occupied from February 26 to March 31. Russian military personnel committed a number of war crimes in the village: prohibition of people to move freely around the village, prohibition to bury the dead relatives in the cemetery, numerous cases of looting (robbery of shops and the population), destruction of housing and infrastructure (the school, hospital, kindergarten, filling station were destroyed or damaged), killing of at least three civilians, illegal capture of civilians. Victoria Andrusha (one of the two illegally captured persons) was released from captivity by exchange on September 29, 2022.Ukraine exchanges 4 more marines and 2 civilians, 29 September 2022
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Gallery

File:Палац баронеси Майендорф.jpg, alt=, The Meyendorff estate File:Supiy-Novy-Bykiv-10-05-2009.jpg, alt=, Supiy River

References

Sources

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"Историко-статистическое описаніе Черниговской епархіи. Книга пятая. Губ. городъ Черниговъ. Уѣзды: Черниговскій, Козелецкій, Суражскій, Кролевецкій и Остерский. — Черниговъ, Земская типографія, 1874. — С. 254-256."

Быковъ // Черниговскія Епархіальныя извѣстія. — 1872. Прибавленія. — с. 151—154 (№ 8, 15 апрѣля).
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