Biryuch is a town and the administrative center of Krasnogvardeysky District

Krasnogvardeysky District, Belgorod Oblast

Krasnogvardeysky District is an administrative district , one of the 21 in Belgorod Oblast, Russia. Municipally, it is incorporated as Krasnogvardeysky Municipal District. Its administrative center is the town of Biryuch. Population: 44,156 ; Population of Biryuch accounts for 19.3% of the...

 of Belgorod Oblast

Belgorod Oblast

Belgorod Oblast is a federal subjects of Russia . Its administrative center is the city of Belgorod. Population: 1,532,670 .-History:...

, Russia

Russia

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, located on the bank of the Tikhaya Sosna River

Tikhaya Sosna River

Tikhaya Sosna is a river in Belgorod and Voronezh Oblasts of Russia. It is a right tributary of the Don River. It is 161 km long, with a drainage basin of 4,350 km²....

. Population:

It was founded on March 7, 1705 by Ivan Medkov, a Cossack sotnik

Sotnik

Sotnik or Sotnyk was a military rank among the Cossack starshyna , Strelets Troops in Muscovy and Imperial Cossack cavalry , the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, the Ukrainian Galician Army, and the Ukrainian People's Army.-Military rank:Literally it means commander of hundred men in most Slavonic...

 as Biryuchenskoye Komissarstvo , and was granted town status in 1779. On January 27, 1919, it was renamed Budyonny , after Semyon Budyonny

Semyon Budyonny

Semyon Mikhailovich Budyonny , sometimes transliterated as Budennyj, Budyonnyy, Budennii, Budenny, Budyoni, Budyenny, or Budenny, was a Soviet cavalryman, military commander, politician and a close ally of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.-Early life:...

. In 1958, it was renamed Krasnogvardeyskoye and demoted in status to that of a village. It was granted urban-type settlement

Urban-type settlement

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 status in 1975, and in 2005 it was again granted town status. On January 30, 2007, the town's original name of Biryuch was restored.

There is a railway station in Biryuch.

External links

• Gerb.bel.ru. "История города Бирюч (Красногвардейское) и Красногвардейского района" (History of Biryuch and Krasnogvardeysky District