Goryuns
Горюни | |
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Regions with significant populations | |
Sumy Oblast, Ukraine (near Putyvl) | |
Languages | |
Russian, Ukrainian | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Belarusians, Russians, Ukrainians |
Goryuns, also Horiuns or Horyuny (Ukrainian: горюни), a little-documented ethnic group of East Slavs, live around Putyvl, now in the Sumy Oblast of north-eastern Ukraine, in the past in Kursk Governorate of the Russian Empire. The dialect of the Russian language spoken by Goryuns has some features of Belarusian and Ukrainian.[1]
Goryuns are considered a tiny sub-ethnos of Russians.[2] Regardless, they consider themselves as distinct from other Russians, as well as distinct from Ukrainians living in the same region.[3]
Chronicles first mention Goryun villages in the sixteenth century, shortly after the annexation of the region to
Different hypotheses address the origins of the Goriuns. James Stuart Olson describes them as an Ukrainianized subgroup of the
Goryuns have a reputation for their unique style of polyphonic singing.[3] In 2017, in the village of Nova Sloboda, a museum of Horyun culture was opened, the exposition of which recreates the estate of the Horyuns of the late nineteenth — early twentieth centuries.[6]
See also
- List of Medieval Slavic tribes
References
- ^ a b c Klimchuk, F.D. (13 February 2004). About ethnolinguistic history of Left Bank of Dnieper (in connection to the ethnogenesis of Goriuns). "Goriuns: history, language, culture" Proceedings of International scientific conference. Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences.
- ^ a b "Russians in Ukraine". Archived from the original on 19 May 2007.
- ^ a b Olshanskaya, Elena (27 February 2004). Lagunina, Irina (ed.). "Горюны" [Goryuny]. Radio Svoboda (in Russian).
- ISBN 0-313-27497-5.
- ^ "Соціально-економічний Паспорт Путивльського Району" [Socio-Economic Passport of Putivl district] (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 30 September 2007. Retrieved 23 July 2007.
- ^ "На Сумщині з'явився унікальний музей горюнів". www.ukrinform.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2022-10-12.