Kupiansk

Proper noun

Kupiansk

1. A city, the administrative centre of Kupiansk urban hromada, Kupiansk Raion, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine, founded in 1655.
   • This bridge is the most crucial supply line connecting the group of forces in Kharkiv with other Ukrainians defending both Vovchansk and Kupiansk.2024 May 26th, “Reporting from Ukraine” (channel name), 25 May: Ukrainians NULLIFY BRAND NEW RUSSIAN ENCIRCLEMENT OPERATION | War in Ukraine Explained, via YouTube, 1:02–1:10
   1. (historical) A povit of, successively, the Voronezh Viceroyalty and then the Voronezh, Sloboda Ukraine and Kharkov Governorates of the Russian Empire, and then of the Kharkiv Governorate of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic; established in 1779, abolished in 1923.
   2. (historical) A volost of Kupiansk povit, Russian Empire and the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, extant at least as early as 1885 and at least as late as 1913.
   3. (historical) An okruha of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, established in March 1923, subordinate to the intermediate Kharkiv Governorate until June 1925, part of the Left-Bank pidraion in 1926, and disestablished in June 1930.
   4. A raion of Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine, established in March 1923, subordinate to the okruha of the same name of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic until June 1930, and considerably enlarged in July 2020.
   5. An urban hromada of Kupiansk Raion, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine, established in June 2020.