Berehomet

Rural locality in Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukraine

Rural settlement in Ukraine

Berehomet Берегомет
Rural settlement
Saint George's Church
48°09′25″N 25°18′20″E / 48.15694°N 25.30556°E / 48.15694; 25.30556
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Chernivtsi Oblast
Raion	Vyzhnytsia Raion
Town status	1963
Government
• Town Head	Serhiy Bodnaryuk
Area
• Total	19.6 km² (7.6 sq mi)
Elevation ^[1]	467 m (1,532 ft)
Population (2022)^[2]
• Total	7,514
• Density	380/km² (990/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code	59233
Area code	+380 3730
Website	http://rada.gov.ua/^{[permanent dead link]}

Berehomet (Ukrainian: Берегомет; Romanian: Bеrhomet pe Siret; German: Berhometh) is a Rural settlement in Vyzhnytsia Raion, Chernivtsi Oblast, western Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Berehomet settlement hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.^[3] The settlement lies on the Siret River. As of the 2001 census, the settlement's population was 8,513.^[4] Population: 7,514 (2022 estimate).^[2]

One village is administered by the settlement, Zarichchia (Заріччя; Zaricicea).

History

The first mention of the village was in 1696.^[5]

Starting in 1963, Berehomet was designated an urban-type settlement.^[5] This status lasted until 26 January 2024, when a new law entered into force which abolished this status, and Berehomet became a rural settlement.^[6]

Notable people

Baron Alexander Wassilko von Serecki (1823-1893), governor of the Duchy of Bucovina and member of the Herrenhaus
Count Georg Wassilko von Serecki (1864-1940), governor of the Duchy of Bucovina and hereditary member of the Herrenhaus
Antin Kravs (1871-1945), Ukrainian Galician Army general.
Odarka Kyselytsia, Ukrainian landscape and portrait painter, Honored Artist of Ukraine (1997).

References

^ "Berehomet (Chernivtsi Oblast, Vyzhnytsia Raion)". weather.in.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 20 January 2012.
^ ^a ^b Чисельність наявного населення України на 1 січня 2022 [Number of Present Population of Ukraine, as of January 1, 2022] (PDF) (in Ukrainian and English). Kyiv: State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 July 2022.
^ "Берегометская громада" (in Russian). Портал об'єднаних громад України.
^ "Berehomet, Chernivtsi Oblast, Vyzhnytsia Raion". Regions of Ukraine and their Structure (in Ukrainian). Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Archived from the original on 7 October 2015. Retrieved 20 January 2012.
^ ^a ^b Бучек, М. С. "Берегомет". Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine (in Ukrainian). Vol. 2. NASU Institute of Encyclopaedic Research. ISBN 978-966-02-2074-4.
^ "Что изменится в Украине с 1 января". glavnoe.in.ua (in Russian). 1 January 2024.