Velykyi Bukryn ( uk, Великий Букрин; russian: Великий Букрин) is a village in
Obukhiv Raion at the south of
Kyiv Oblast
Kyiv Oblast ( uk, Ки́ївська о́бласть, translit=Kyïvska oblast), also called Kyivshchyna ( uk, Ки́ївщина), is an oblast (province) in central and northern Ukraine. It surrounds, but does not include, the city of Kyiv, w ...
, Ukraine, with about 100 inhabitants (2001). It belongs to
Rzhyshchiv urban hromada, one of the
hromadas of Ukraine.
The village, founded in 1600, belongs administratively to the 39.3 km
2 district council ''Malyi Bukryn'' (Малий Букрин).
The village is located on the border with
Cherkasy Oblast
Cherkasy Oblast ( uk, Черка́ська о́бласть, Cherkaska oblast, ), also referred to as Cherkashchyna ( uk, Черка́щина, ) is an oblast (province) of central Ukraine located along the Dnieper River. The administrative center ...
on a peninsula in the
Dnieper
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The Dnieper () or Dnipro (); , ; . is one of the major transboundary rivers of Europe, rising in the Valdai Hills near Smolensk, Russia, before flowing through Belarus and Ukraine to the Black Sea. It is the longest river of Ukraine and ...
, which is dammed up to Kaniv reservoir, 5 km north of Malyi Bukryn community center, about 50 km northeast of the city of
Myronivka and about 120 km south of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv.
At Velykyi Bukryn, the troops of the
Voronezh Front
The 1st Ukrainian Front (Russian: Пéрвый Украи́нский фронт), previously the Voronezh Front (Russian: Воронежский Фронт) was a major formation of the Soviet Army during World War II, being equivalent to a ...
established the hard-fought over Bukryn bridgehead on the right bank of the Dnieper in the autumn of 1943 during the
Battle of the Dnieper
The Battle of the Dnieper was a military campaign that took place in 1943 in Ukraine on the Eastern Front of World War II. One of the largest operations of the war, it involved almost 4,000,000 troops at a time stretched on a front.
Over four m ...
. In the neighboring village of Balyko-Shchuchynka, there is the "National Museum-Memorial Bukryn Bridgehead" (Національний музей-меморіальний комплекс «Букринський плацда) to commemorate the fighting.
Until 18 July 2020, Velykyi Bukryn belonged to
Myronivka Raion. The raion was abolished that day as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Kyiv Oblast to seven. The area of Myronivka Raion was merged into Obukhiv Raion.
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Populated places on the Dnieper in Ukraine
1600 establishments in Europe
Villages in Obukhiv Raion