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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.

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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.

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