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Енциклопедія історії України: Т. 5

Author: Інститут історії України НАН України
Year of publication: 2008
Published in: редакційна колегія: Смолій В. А. (голова) та інші
Describes Russian colonization of peoples: Ukrainians
Publication rights: not allowed (an encyclopedia under the Institute of History copyright)

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Where we got it

Original source: https://archive.org/details/e0h0u

Where the knowledge base cites it

This material is cited in 4 places.

Campaigns

• The Konotop Articles of Ivan Samoilovych (1672)

  A further curtailment of the Hetmanate's political agency and interference in the autonomy's internal affairs: "Overall, the Konotop Articles limited the hetman's power in favor of the officer oligarchy, and also narrowed the autonomy of the Hetmanate"

• Military Annexation of the Crimean Khanate (1783)

  For Crimea this meant the liquidation of the state and its ruling dynasty: "in the spring of 1782 Khan Shahin Girey was forced to flee under Russian protection"

  and the khan was exiled to Kaluga; the indigenous population was being squeezed out in waves of emigration - "if before 1787 only 8 thousand had emigrated, by 1792 it was already tens of thousands"

• The Battle of Kruty and the Killing of Prisoners (January 1918)

  In late December 1917, as the troops of Bolshevik Russia were advancing on Kyiv, a detachment of yunkers - cadets of the 1st Kyiv Youth Military School named after Bohdan Khmelnytsky (four companies of 150 cadets each, 20 officers, 18 machine guns) - under the command of Sotnyk Averkii Honcharenko took up the defense of Bakhmach station, a railway junction on the border of the UNR and the RSFSR

  On January 27, 1918, reinforcements arrived from Kyiv - the first company of the student volunteer battalion under the command of Sotnyk Omelchenko, 115-130 volunteers: students of the Ukrainian National University and Kyiv University and senior-grade pupils of Ukrainian gymnasiums - teenagers, many of them 17 years old

  The Ukrainian forces took up defense near Kruty station (now the village of Pamiatne in Chernihiv oblast)

  On the morning of January 29 a six-thousand-strong detachment of Petrograd and Moscow Red Guards led by Yegorov attacked the positions; the fighting lasted until evening, the defenders repelled several attacks and, on the order of Sotnyk Averkii Honcharenko, withdrew to their echelon - the detachment's train waiting two kilometers away; their losses came to as many as 300 killed, wounded, and captured

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Procedures

• The Battle of Kruty and the Killing of Prisoners (January 1918) — technique Military Intervention

  From late December 1917 the yunkers - cadets of the 1st Kyiv Youth Military School named after Bohdan Khmelnytsky, four companies of 150 cadets each with 20 officers and 18 machine guns - under the command of Sotnyk Averkii Honcharenko held Bakhmach, a railway junction on the border of the UNR and the RSFSR

  On January 27 the first company of the student volunteer battalion under Sotnyk Omelchenko arrived from Kyiv to join them - 115-130 volunteers: students and senior-grade gymnasium pupils, teenagers, many of them 17 years old

  Historians of the Institute of History of Ukraine of the National Academy of Sciences write: it took place "during the offensive on the city of Kyiv by the troops of Bolshevik Russia", with the positions attacked by the forces of "a 6-thousand-strong Bolshevik detachment of Petrograd and Moscow Red Guards" led by Yegorov

  The fighting lasted until evening, the defenders repelled several attacks; historians put the defenders' losses at "up to 300 killed, wounded, captured"

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