Merefa
Merefa
City in Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine
Merefa (Ukrainian: Мeрeфa) is a city in Kharkiv Raion, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine. Merefa hosts the administration of Merefa urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.[1] Population: 21,202 (2022 estimate).[2]
Merefa
Мерефа | |
|---|---|
Church of the Nativity of Theotokos in Merefa | |
| Coordinates: 49°49′N 36°03′E | |
| Country |  Ukraine |
| Oblast |  Kharkiv Oblast |
| Raion | Kharkiv Raion |
| Hromada | Merefa urban hromada |
| Population (2022) | |
| • Total | 21,202 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
It was a village in Kharkovsky Uyezd of Kharkov Governorate of the Russian Empire.
City since 1938.[3]
In January 1989 the population was 28,952 people.[4][3] In 1992-1996, the Avangard football club of Merefa played in the national championship of Ukraine (third and second league in 1996/97) as a team that won the Kharkiv Oblast Football Championship (4 times in a row) and won prizes in transitional tournaments.
In January 2013 the population was 22,280 people.[5]
On March 17, 2022, at about 3:30 am, Russian servicemen shelled the town of Merefa, Kharkiv district, destroying a secondary school and a house of culture. 15 people were killed. 25 people were injured, 10 of them in serious condition.[6]
Etymologists have not reached a final conclusion, but it is believed that the name originated from the Old Slavic "mьrRs" (Ukrainian: "to fade"), which is derived from the Ukrainian merekhtyty ("to flicker; barely visible"). Another version is a hydronymic from "merecha" (Ukrainian for forest thicket; dense shrubbery in a swampy lowland), which is based on the Proto-Slavic "merRja" (Ukrainian for swampy place).[7] Among the analogies is also merechytysya ("to be seen"), which is related to the root mereka ("delusion, ghost") derived from the Proto-Slavic morkъ (Ukrainian: морок).[8]
- a railway station[3]
- A school in Merefa
- Entrance to Avanhard Stadium, Merefa
- "Мерефянская громада" (in Russian). Портал об'єднаних громад України.
- 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.
- Мерефа // Большой энциклопедический словарь (в 2-х тт.). / редколл., гл. ред. А. М. Прохоров. том 1. М., "Советская энциклопедия", 1991. стр.794
- "Унаслідок ворожого обстрілу Мерефи 15 людей загинули, 25 поранені - прокуратура". Інтерфакс-Україна (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2023-12-28.
- Етимологічний словник української мови : в 7 т. / редкол.: О. С. Мельничук (гол. ред.) та ін. — К. : Наукова думка, 1989. — Т. 3 : Кора — М / Ін-т мовознавства ім. О. О. Потебні АН УРСР ; укл.: Р. В. Болдирєв та ін. — 552 с. — ISBN 5-12-001263-9.
- Лучик В. В.. Етимологічний словник топонімів України / В. В. Лучик; відп. ред. В. Г. Скляренко. — К. : ВЦ «Академія», 2014. — 544 с. (325 с.) — ISBN 978-966-580-454-3