Verkhnia Syrovatka, russian: Верхняя Сыроватка, also Верхняя Сывороткa) 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 administrative centre of Verkhnia Syrovatka rural hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Its population is 3,814 ().

Overview

Verkhnia Syrovatka was first mentioned in 1653. It came under the occupation of the

Red Army The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (Russian: Рабо́че-крестья́нская Кра́сная армия),) often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and, after ...

in December 1917, amidst the Ukrainian–Soviet War. 765 residents fought for the

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during

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, and the Red Army recaptured the village during the 1943 Battle of the Dnieper after it had been previously occupied by

Nazi Germany Nazi Germany (lit. "National Socialist State"), ' (lit. "Nazi State") for short; also ' (lit. "National Socialist Germany") (officially known as the German Reich from 1933 until 1943, and the Greater German Reich from 1943 to 1945) was ...

. Verkhnia Syrovatka has been repeatedly shelled by Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. A group of ten Ukrainian soldiers ambushed a Russian convoy near the village of Verkhnia Syrovatka on 1 March 2022. Five of the Ukrainians were killed, and more than ten Russian vehicles were reportedly destroyed. A monument now stands at the place of the ambush. One notable landmark in Verkhnia Syrovatka is the Church of the Dormition, constructed by cultural figure in 1805. It was closed by Soviet authorities and used as an observation tower during World War II before being restored in the 1990s.

Notable people

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Hero of the Soviet Union The title Hero of the Soviet Union (russian: Герой Советского Союза, translit=Geroy Sovietskogo Soyuza) was the highest distinction in the Soviet Union, awarded together with the Order of Lenin personally or collectively for ...

. * , film director and actor.

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{{Sumy Oblast Villages in Sumy Raion