Bereza, Sumy Oblast

Bereza was first mentioned in the early 17th century. During the Russian Revolution of 1905 there was an uprising against the landlords of the village,^[2] and prior to the 1917 Russian Revolution a church was sold to the village by the neighbouring village of Makove [uk].^[3]

The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic occupied the village in January 1918. In 1924 a kolkhoz was established in the village, named Zaporozhets.^[2]

A memorial to the victims of the Holodomor was installed in the village in 2006.^[4] There is also a memorial to Soviet soldiers who died during World War II.^[2]

• Oleksii Bohdanovych [uk], Ukrainian actor
• Oksana Slipushko [uk], Ukrainian writer and professor of Ukrainian literature
• Pavlo Sokyra [uk], Ukrainian bandurist