Osypenko, Zaporizhzhia Oblast

Osypenko (Ukrainian: Осипенко) is a village (selo) in Berdiansk Raion, Zaporizhzhia Oblast, southern Ukraine.

[2] The village was established as Novospasivka (Ukrainian: Новоспасівка) in the Russian Empire in 1805 by runaway serfs from Poltava Governorate.

[1] During the Russian Civil War, Novospasivka was the second-most (only behind Huliaipole) important center of the Ukrainian anarchist movement known as the Makhnovshchina.

Novospasivka changed hands between the warring factions several times, before eventually falling into control of the Bolsheviks, who established the Soviet Union on much of the former territory of the Russian Empire.

In the same year, Novospasivka was renamed to Osypenko in honor of Soviet military pilot Polina Osipenko, who was born in the village.