page_title: Ozeryshche, Ukraine
section_title: Soviet era
hierarchical_section_title: Ozeryshche, Ukraine / History / Soviet era
caption_attribution_description: English: The oak forest near Ozeryshche (Ukraine) village in April.Українська: Дубовий ліс біля села Озерище Канівського району Черкаської області у квітні.
context_page_description: Ozeryshche or Ozerysche is a village in Central Ukraine, located in the Kaniv Raion of the Cherkasy Oblast. The village belongs to an eponymous village council - the Ozeryshche village council.
  The population of the village is 238 people of 179 households in 2016.
  The village name came from four lakes that were located in there.
  Until the middle of the 20th century there was a hamlet - khutir Svynyntsi in the west of Ozeryshche, which was mentioned in Ulas Samchuk's book "Moroziv khutir". It was named Svynyntsi because there were a lot of wild swine in surrounding forests.
  There is a parish of the Seventh-day Adventist Church although most of religious people in the village are Eastern Orthodox Christians.
context_section_description: In 1921, there was a combat between a rebel detachment of otaman Chornyi (Black, Havrylo Kureda) and Bolshevik forces near the village, which was won by the rebels.
  The soviet policy of collectivization in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, that was attended by the Law of Spikelets, caused the Holodomor (Extermination by hunger) in the 1930s, which touched the village as well. Much later, in memory of the deceased there was a memorial erected, in the form of a Christian cross, in the village.
  The first collective farm (kolhosp) named Perebudova (Perestroika, Reformation) was headed by I.O. Cherednichenko. The village church was reconstructed into a granary. After some time there was a school in the church building.
  During the Political repression in the Soviet Union, especially in the Great Purge, a lot of villagers were being executed or deported. There were among others: L. Cherednichenko, T. Debely, Y. Ihnatenko, M. Suprun, H. Zavertainy.
  At the time of World War II there were fierce combats near the village.
  On 1 October 1941 a cult Soviet writer Arkady Gaidar stayed in the village, when he, together with a detachment of the colonel Orlov, was trying to get out of a German encirclement. Lurking from Germans in surrounding forests Gaidar managed to establish numerous relations with village inhabitants. Subsequently, Gaidar joined а Soviet partisan (guerrilla) group of Gorielov, which eventually was routed.
  Besides Gorielov's squad, a partisan detachment in the name of Chapayev acted in the surrounding forests. Guerrillas wore policeman uniforms for secrecy. They did not do real hostilities, just fulfilled subversive activities.
  On the pages of the regional press a native villager Volodymyr Sukhyna shares his memories about those times. In particular, he noted the atrocity of the Nazi commandant of the district centre Helmiaziv and the police chief. However, the village starosta (village head) Tykhon Dmytrovych tried to help the villagers. During the Red Army advance in 1943, the villagers fled away from the Dnieper river to avoid the accidental shelling from Kaniv. There was a military hospital opened in the former church, which had been used as a school at that time. The wounded were being taken in there during the Battle of the Dnieper. Killed and died of wounds Red Army soldiers were buried at the village cemetery, afterwards they were reburied in the village centre. Later at that place, a monument in memory of the Red Army warriors was erected.
  The significant development of the village was undergoing in 1964–1967 years, when the collective farm head was P. P. Cherednyk. At this time there were new cattle farms, a tractor fleet, village club, and kindergarten built there. Later the collective farm was broke up, and its land was transferred to a state farm (radhosp). The state farm was named after Gaidar and had the head office at a nearby village Lipliave.
caption: The oak forest near the village in April.
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