Goryuns

Goryuns, also Horiuns or Horyuny (Ukrainian: горюни), 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.

[3] Chronicles first mention Goryun villages in the sixteenth century, shortly after the annexation of the region to Muscovy.

From this, the Belarusian scientist Fiodar Klimchuk concludes that the Goryuns might have lived in the region before the year 1500.

James Stuart Olson describes them as an Ukrainianized subgroup of the Polekhs.