Bereznehuvate

Bereznehuvate arose beside a ravine of the same name in the steppe between the Inhul and Inhulets. Former Zaporozhian Cossacks settled here in the 1780s; in 1787 the small community counted seven households. In 1795 many families of fugitive peasants arrived from the Chernihiv and Poltava regions. Their settlement belongs to the changing history of the former Cossack lands after the destruction of the Zaporozhian Sich.