Velykyi Bereznyi

Velykyi Bereznyi lies on the upper Uzh River, among the wooded slopes of the Carpathians. The village was recorded in a Hungarian tax list in 1427 as part of the Drugeth family's Užhorod estate. Its name is associated with the birch trees of the region. By the end of the seventeenth century it belonged to the estate of Miklós Bercsényi, heir to the Drugeths. During the uprising of Francis II Rákóczi, men from the surrounding mountain country joined the rebels who marched on Užhorod in 1703.