Barakhty

Rural locality in Kyiv Oblast, Ukraina

Village in Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine

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Barakhty is a village in Obukhiv Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine. It belongs to Vasylkiv urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.^[1]

Until 18 July 2020, Barakhty belonged to Vasylkiv Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Kyiv Oblast to seven. The area of Vasylkiv Raion was split between Bila Tserkva, Fastiv, and Obukhiv Raions, with Barakhty being transferred to Obukhiv Raion.^[2]^[3]

Barakhty is home to a Jewish cemetery. Among the buried is Zoreslav Zamojskij, a journalist who died in the Bucha massacre.^[4]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Category:Monument to Soviet pilots in Barakhty.

There is a local monument in honour of pilots who died during the Great Patriotic War.^[5]

It is the location where There will be Humans, a movie based on a book of the same name by Anatoliy Dimarov, was set.^[6]

Notable residents

Yuriy Lytvyn (dissident)^[7]

References

^ "Васильковская городская громада". Gromada.info (in Russian). Retrieved 2 June 2022.
^ "Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ". Голос України (in Ukrainian). 2020-07-18. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
^ "Нові райони: карти + склад" (in Ukrainian). Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України.
^ "'History can come back': Passover sorrow at a Jewish burial near Kyiv". NBC News. Retrieved 2022-04-22.
^ "Памятник в с.Барахты". www.airforce.ru. Retrieved 2022-04-22.
^ "10 facts about 'There Will Be Humans', a historical saga based on Anatoly Dimarov's novel". FILM.UA Group. Retrieved 2022-04-22.
^ "Lytvyn, Yurii". www.encyclopediaofukraine.com. Retrieved 2022-04-22.