Goryuns
Sign in to saveGoryuns, also Horiuns or Horyuny (), a little-documented ethnic group of East Slavs living around Putyvl, now in the Sumy Oblast of north-eastern Ukraine, in the past in Kursk Governorate of the Russian Empire. The dialect of the Russian language spoken by Goryuns has some features of Belarusian and Ukrainian.
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- Ethnic group.group
- Goryuns
- Ethnic group.native_name
- Горюни
- Ethnic group.native_name_lang
- uk
- Ethnic group.image
- Новая Слобода. Экспозиция Музея горюнской культуры.jpg
- Ethnic group.image_caption
- Museum of Goryun Culture in Nova Sloboda, Sumy Oblast
- Ethnic group.regions
- Sumy Oblast, Ukraine(near Putyvl)
- Ethnic group.languages
- Russian, Ukrainian
- Ethnic group.related_groups
- Belarusians, Russians, Ukrainians
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Goryuns, also Horiuns or Horyuny (), a little-documented ethnic group of East Slavs living around Putyvl, now in the Sumy Oblast of north-eastern Ukraine, in the past in Kursk Governorate of the Russian Empire. The dialect of the Russian language spoken by Goryuns has some features of Belarusian and Ukrainian.
Goryuns are considered a tiny sub-ethnos of Russians. Regardless, they consider themselves as distinct from other Russians, as well as distinct from Ukrainians living in the same region.