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{{Short description|Ethnic group in Ukraine}}
{{Infobox ethnic group
| group            = Goryuns
| native_name      = Горюни
| native_name_lang = uk
| image            = Новая Слобода. Экспозиция Музея горюнской культуры.jpg
| image_caption    = Museum of Goryun Culture in [[Nova Sloboda, Sumy Oblast]]
| regions          = [[Sumy Oblast]], Ukraine<br/>(near [[Putyvl]])
| languages        = [[Russian language|Russian]], [[Ukrainian language|Ukrainian]]
| related_groups   = [[Belarusians]], [[Russians]], [[Ukrainians]]
}}
'''Goryuns''', also '''Horiuns''' or '''Horyuny''' ({{langx|uk|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 language|Belarusian]] and [[Ukrainian language|Ukrainian]].<ref name="conf">{{cite conference|first=F.D. |last=Klimchuk |title=About ethnolinguistic history of Left Bank of Dnieper (in connection to the ethnogenesis of Goriuns) |conference="Goriuns: history, language, culture" Proceedings of International scientific conference |publisher=Institute of Linguistics, [[Russian Academy of Sciences]] |date=13 February 2004}}</ref>
Goryuns are considered a tiny sub-ethnos of [[Russians]].<ref name="kongr">{{cite web|url=http://www.kngu.org/KongrUkr/Communit/ObzhRuss.htm |title=Russians in Ukraine |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070519054819/http://www.kngu.org/KongrUkr/Communit/ObzhRuss.htm |archive-date=19 May 2007}}</ref> Regardless, they consider themselves as distinct from other [[Russians]], as well as distinct from [[Ukrainians]] living in the same region.<ref name="svoboda">{{cite news|url=http://www.svoboda.org/programs/civil/2004/civil.022704.asp |title=Горюны |language=ru |trans-title=Goryuny |first=Elena |last=Olshanskaya |date=27 February 2004 |editor-first=Irina |editor-last=Lagunina |work=[[Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty|Radio Svoboda]]}}</ref>
Chronicles first mention Goryun villages in the sixteenth century, shortly after the annexation of the region to [[Grand Duchy of Moscow|Muscovy]]. From this, the Belarusian scientist Fiodar Klimchuk concludes that the Goryuns might have lived in the region before the year 1500.<ref name="conf"/>
Different hypotheses address the origins of the Goriuns. James Stuart Olson describes them as an Ukrainianized subgroup of the [[Polekhs]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Olson |first=James Stuart |author-link=James S. Olson |title=An Ethnohistorical Dictionary of the Russian and Soviet Empires |publisher=Greenwood Press |date=1994 |isbn=0-313-27497-5 |pages=554}}</ref> According to Fiodar Klimchuk, the Goryuns may be descendants of local [[Severians]] or they might be of mixed Severian-[[Radimich]] stock, or their Severian ancestors might have moved to the north-west and then returned.<ref name="conf"/> Some researchers believe that they are autochthonous to the region and are related to the local early Slavic population;<ref name="kongr"/> according to others, they descend from migrants from what is now [[Belarus]] — mixed with the local population.<ref name="putyvl">{{cite web |url=http://www.putivlrada.gov.ua/pasport.htm |title=Соціально-економічний Паспорт Путивльського Району |language=uk |trans-title=Socio-Economic Passport of Putivl district |access-date=23 July 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930180122/http://www.putivlrada.gov.ua/pasport.htm |archive-date=30 September 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Goryuns have a reputation for their unique style of [[Polyphony|polyphonic singing]].<ref name="svoboda"/> In 2017, in the village of Nova Sloboda, a museum of Horyun culture was opened, the exposition of which recreates the estate of the Horyuns of the late nineteenth — early twentieth centuries.<ref>{{Cite web |title=На Сумщині з'явився унікальний музей горюнів |url=https://www.ukrinform.ua/rubric-tourism/2317144-na-sumsini-zavivsa-unikalnij-muzej-goruniv.html |access-date=2022-10-12 |website=www.ukrinform.ua |language=uk}}</ref>
== See also ==
* [[List of Medieval Slavic tribes]]
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