Biloziria

Biloziria (Ukrainian: Білозір'я) is a big village (selo) in central Ukraine. It is located in Cherkasy Raion (district) of Cherkasy Oblast (province) 20 km (12 mi) southwest from the city of Cherkasy. It hosts the administration of Biloziria rural hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.^[1]

Biloziria Білозір'я
Village
Transfiguration Church of 1754
Flag Coat of arms
Biloziria Biloziria in Cherkasy Oblast Show map of Ukraine Biloziria Biloziria (Cherkasy Oblast) Show map of Cherkasy Oblast
Coordinates: 49°18′19″N 31°53′32″E
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Cherkasy
Raion	Cherkasy
Population
• Total	8,506
Website	Ukrainian Parliament website

History

The village is mentioned as a town in the "Tales about populated localities of Kyiv Governorate" of 1864 by Lavrentiy Polkhylevych and the fact that existed before 1710.

Population

Language

Distribution of the population by native language according to the 2001 census:^[2]

Language	Number	Percentage
Ukrainian	8 436	99.18%
Other[a]	70	0.82%
Total	8 506	100.00%

a Those who did not indicate their native language or indicated a language that was native to less than 1% of the local population.

Further reading

• (in Ukrainian) (1972). Історіа міст і сіл Української CCP – Черкаська область (The History of Cities and Villages of the Ukrainian SSR – Cherkasy Oblast), Kyiv.