Izyum

Izyum is a metropolis located on the Donets River in Kharkiv Oblast of japanese Ukraine. Serving as the workplace of Izium Raion, Izium is administratively incorporated as a metropolis of oblast importance and does not belong to the raion. It is located about 75 miles southeast of the oblast capital, Kharkiv. First stated in 1571 in reference to the Izium Warpath of the Crimean Tatars. In 1639 changed into noted as small outpost. In 1681 Russian castle turned into built here, in 1684, the 5-domed Baroque cathedral of the Saviour's Transfiguration.

Later, Izyum was a giant centre of the Sloboda Ukraine and home to a regiment of Cossacks between 1688 and 1765. In 1765 Izyum have become a city. In 1780 Izyum became an uyezd metropolis. During World War II, the Red Army held a massive bridgehead here, allowing for a salient that became cut off with the aid of counter attacking German forces and eliminated in one of the maximum costly learning mistakes for the Red Army. Izium turned into occupied by way of the German Army from 24 June 1942 to 5 February 1943.