Merefa


Merefa is a city in Kharkiv Raion, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine. Merefa hosts the administration of Merefa urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population:
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History

It was a village in Kharkovsky Uyezd of Kharkov Governorate of the Russian Empire.
City since 1938.
In January 1989 the population was 28,952 people. In 1992-1996, the Avangard football club of Merefa played in the national championship of Ukraine as a team that won the Kharkiv Oblast Football Championship and won prizes in transitional tournaments.
In January 2013 the population was 22,280 people.
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.

Name

Etymologists have not reached a final conclusion, but it is believed that the name originated from the Old Slavic "mьrRs", which is derived from the Ukrainian merekhtyty. Another version is a hydronymic from "merecha", which is based on the Proto-Slavic "merRja". Among the analogies is also merechytysia, which is related to the root mereka derived from the Proto-Slavic morkъ.

Demographics

Distribution of the population by ethnicity according to the 2001 census:

Transport