Velyka Dymerka ( uk, Велика Димерка) is an
urban-type settlement
Urban-type settlementrussian: посёлок городско́го ти́па, translit=posyolok gorodskogo tipa, abbreviated: russian: п.г.т., translit=p.g.t.; ua, селище міського типу, translit=selyshche mis'koho typu, ab ...
in
Brovary Raion
Brovary Raion () is a raion (district) in Kyiv Oblast of Ukraine. Its administrative center is the town of Brovary. Population: .
On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Kyiv Oblast was reduced ...
(
district
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) 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 ...
(
province
A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or state. The term derives from the ancient Roman '' provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire's territorial possessions ou ...
) in northern
Ukraine
Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...
. It was founded in 1552 as a village, and it retained that status until it was upgraded to that of an urban-type settlement in 2000.
Velyka Dymerka hosts the administration of
Velyka Dymerka settlement hromada, one of the
hromadas of Ukraine.
The settlement is one of the largest localities in the Brovary Raion, with a population of 10,105 as of the
2001 Ukrainian Census
The Ukrainian Census of 2001 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. .
[ Current population:
]
People
* Vladimir Pecherin (1807–1885), Russian poet and political figure
* Hryhoriy Vasiura
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, native_name_lang =
, nickname = Executioner of Khatyn
, birth_date =
, birth_place = Chyhyryn, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire (now Ukraine)
, death_date =
, death_place = Pishchalauski Castle, Minsk, Belorussian SS ...
(1915–1987), Red Army lieutenant and Nazi collaborator, moved there in 1955
* Viktor Postol (1984), a Ukrainian professional boxer
References
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Urban-type settlements in Brovary Raion
Ostyorsky Uyezd
Populated places established in 1552
16th-century establishments in Ukraine