Berezivka

Berezivka is a city and the administrative center of Berezivka Raion in Odesa Oblast, Ukraine, and it hosts the administration of the Berezivka urban hromada. It began as a settlement in 1802, at first as part of the village of Ananiv, and became separate when an influx of refugees from serfdom arrived; German colonists also settled there. As the population grew it became a significant trade and industry centre within the Novorossiya Governorate. It became a district centre in March 1923, and mechanical factories, a power plant and an equipment repair plant were built there. German forces occupied it from 10 August 1941 to 1 April 1944, and most of its Jewish residents, who numbered in the thousands, were killed, although it also became a centre of underground resistance led by M. Mayboroda. It received city status in 1962. The estimated population in 2022 was 9,428.