Kotliarka or Kotlyarka ( ) is a village in Ukraine, located in the Zhytomyr Raion of the Zhytomyr Oblast (province).Kotliarka // The History of Cities and Villages of the Ukrainian SSR The village belongs to an eponymous village council - the .

Geography The village is situated in the northwest of the Dnieper Upland and the right-bank Ukraine.

The village council area borders the Andrushivka Raion in the west and village councils of the Popilna Raion: in the east, Khodorkiv in the north, in the south-west, in the south and in the south-east.

The river Kryvenka (, ) flows through the village into the , which flows into the Irpin River of the Dnieper basin. There is a pond on the river in the village, that is called the Kryvenka Reservoir.Kotliarka // mistaUA

Two forests are near the village towards and . They were part of a large forest in the Popilnia Raion; the forest was significantly reduced because of the high demand for potash in the 14th to 19th centuries, which required large amounts of wood.Calaméo - H. Shvydko // History of Ukraine, XIV - XVIIRural crafts and trades in Ukraine, XVI - XVIIHistory // Popilnya village council

History

Early time Serpent's WallCultural heritage Protection // Popilnya Raion Central Library and ancient kurgansO. M. Ivashchenko // Historical and Cultural Monuments and Memorials in Zhytomyr Region (Popilnya Raion), Issue 9 // Zhytomyr, 2007 // p. 174-177. were discovered next to the village. The Ukrainian historian Volodymyr Antonovych mentioned the village in his work "The archaeological map of the Kiev Governorate" 1895.National Historical Library of Ukraine He marked 2 large and 12 small kurgans in 3 kilometres from the village.V. Antonovych // The archaeological map of the Kiev Governorate, 1895 // Kotliarka

Before the Kievan Rus epoch it was a territory of the Eastern Polans.The origin, distribution and social order of the Slavs in VI - IX centuries. - History of Ukraine // Online study materials

Russian Empire period

The ethnographer in his work "" mentioned the village. In 1835 Kotliarka belonged to the (Uezd) and the parish of the Holy Dormition church in the neighbour village . The owners of the village were descendants of August Slyvynsky. There were 520 Orthodox Christians and 100 Catholics in the village.Tales of inhabited areas of the Kiev province 1884, page 223

In 1878–1879, the riot of (quit-renters), who were tenants and former noblemen, started in the village. They took back the land they had previously rented from the landlord Slyvynsky for quit-rents. The land had been leased by a sugar company from Khodorkiv for the high rental payment. After police arrested the riot organiser Baladinski, he was released by about 40 of his comrades. The police stopped the riot and arrested 26 rebels. However, the landlord was advised to refrain from attempts to change the tenants of the land.The battle for land in Ukraine 1863-1914. Daniel Beauvois

According to the Russian Empire Census in 1897Breakdown of population by mother tongue and districts in 50 Governorates of the European Russia at Demoscope Weekly, project by National Research University – Higher School of Economics the rural population of the consisted of 86.65% Ukrainian, 9.69% Jewish, 2.51% Polish and 0.95% Russian speaking people.

Soviet era

There were names of 101 victims of the Holodomor 1932-1933 ascertained based on the stories of the eyewitnesses S. Babych, P. Vilchynska, Y. Zavadska, S. Monastyretsky and S. Sokyrko.The Popilnia Raion //

During the political repression in the Soviet Union, especially in the Great Purge, a lot of villagers were executed or deported. Ethnic Ukrainian families, such as the Babych, Blinkevych and Vitkivsky, and Polish families, including the Baladinski, Czopiwski and Zawadski were subjected to repression.

Many villagers were conscripted into the Red Army and killed during the Winter War (Soviet–Finnish War 1939–1940).Soviet-Finnish War 1939-1940

During the Nazi occupation of 1941–1943 the village was in the Ruzhyn Gebiet of the of the Reichskommissariat Ukraine.

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