Nyzhnia Syrovatka ( uk, Нижня Сироватка) is a village in

Sumy Raion Sumy Raion ( uk, Сумський район) is a raion in Sumy Oblast in Central Ukraine. The administrative center of the raion is the city of Sumy, which is administratively incorporated as a city of oblast significance and does not belong ...

Sumy Oblast Sumy Oblast ( uk, Сумська́ о́бласть, translit=Sumska oblast; also referred to as Sumshchyna – uk, Су́мщина) is an oblast (province) in the northeastern part of Ukraine. Population: The oblast was created in its most r ...

, in central Ukraine. It is the capital of Nyzhnia Syrovatka rural hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Its population is 3,717 ().

History

Nyzhnia Syrovatka was founded in 1659. Its residents participated in the Russian Revolution of 1905, as well as protests against World War I. Red Army soldiers occupied the village in January 1918. 130 inhabitants of the village died in the

Holodomor The Holodomor ( uk, Голодомо́р, Holodomor, ; derived from uk, морити голодом, lit=to kill by starvation, translit=moryty holodom, label=none), also known as the Terror-Famine or the Great Famine, was a man-made famin ...

. 1,024 inhabitants of Nyzhnia Syrovatka fought for the Red Army in World War II. Following the war, four memorials to Soviet soldiers were constructed in the village.

References

{{Sumy Oblast Populated places established in 1659 Villages in Sumy Raion