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Kupiansk

Image - Kupiansk: Market Square (1906). Image - Kupiansk: Women's gymnasium (1916). Image - Buildings of the Kupiansk brewery.
Image - A panorama of Kupiansk.

Kupiansk or Kupianka [Kup'jans’k or Kup'janka]. Map: IV-18. (Panorama: Kupiansk.) City (2001 pop 32,400) and raion center under Kharkiv oblast jurisdiction, situated on the Oskil River. It was founded in 1655 as a sloboda (self-governing settlement) and was a company town in Kharkiv regiment and Izium regiment of Slobidska Ukraine (1685–1765). It became a county town in Voronezh vicegerency in 1780, in Slobidska Ukraine gubernia (1797), and in Kharkiv gubernia (1835). Since the late 19th century Kupiansk has been an important railway junction: five lines intersect there and at the adjacent town of Kupiansk Vuzlovyi. The city has an agricultural-machinery factory and food-processing industry. There is a historical-regional museum and an automobile-transportation tekhnikum.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 2 (1989).]


Image - One of the central streets in Kupiansk. Image - 1st May Street in Kupiansk. Image - The Oskil River near Kupiansk. Image - A view of Kupiansk.

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