Tsyrkuny

Tsyrkuny (Ukrainian: Циркуни) is a village in Kharkiv Raion (district) in Kharkiv Oblast of eastern Ukraine, at about 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) north-east from the centre of Kharkiv city. It hosts the administration of Tsyrkuny rural hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.

The settlement came under attack by Russian forces during the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

The settlement had 6310 inhabitants in 2001, native language distribution as of the Ukrainian Census of 2001:

The village of Tsyrkuny is located northeast of Kharkiv, on the outskirts of the city. The village is located on the banks of the Kharkov River (Siverskyi Donets basin). Upstream, 1 km, is the village of Cherkassky Tyshky.

Tsyrkuny is located on the slopes of the Central Russian Upland, in the forest-steppe natural zone. The climate of the territory has a temperate continental type with cold winters and hot summers. The average annual temperature is +8.7 °C (in January -4.5, in July +22). The average annual precipitation is 520 mm. The greatest amount of precipitation falls in summer.

Around the village are summer cottages and broad-leaved and pine forests. To the southwest of the village passes the M03 highway (Kharkiv district road).

The village was first mentioned in 1671.

According to data from 1864, the village had a population of 2,707 people (1,255 males and 1,452 females), 278 households, and an Orthodox church.