some interesting historical info about Kharkiv in Ukraine

[Karl2010]

More than a third of the original inhabitants of Kharkiv are Moldovans! When our city was still a little village over 9000 men and women from Moldova were given a permission by the Tsar of Russian Empire to settle down in Kharkov (at that time a settlement of approximately 16-18 thousand people). As a reminder of those events there is still a residence area in Kharkov called Rogan, which a word in Moldavian. Not many people in the modern Kharkiv know about the fact that over third of the people who lived here in the very beginning were not Ukrainians.

There are few Russian words which don't need to be translated, for example vodka, perestroika, glasnost etc, but then there is a Russian word which is very sad and scary and which unfortunately became known all over the world because of Russian Empire, this word is pogrom. There is an interesting fact about Kharkiv- it's the only big city of Russian Empire which never had a pogrom in its history!

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[Serhii]

Very interesting indeed. I didn’t know those facts. Kharkiv is /was very important intellectual center .

Then I will drink a bottle of ‘Rogan’ to it !

[Hannia]

There is an interesting fact about Kharkiv- it's the only big city of Russian Empire which never had a pogrom in its history!

June 8-11, 1919.
Mass executions of "bourgeois" in Kharkov prisons as per Red Terror before the White Army gained control over the city (June 12, 1919). Estimated victim figure: 500 to 1,000.

June 15-18, 1919.
Kharkov: Massacres and looting after the town’s recapture by units of Denikin’s army, who systematically identified Jews as Bolsheviks. Estimated number of victims: between 800 and 2,500.


Encyclopedia of Mass Violence
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[Serhii]

Eh , Hannia , I was going to drink some beer ....