Ukraine specified number of Holodomor victims – 3.5 million

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The Institute of Demography of Social Studies at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine specified the number of the victims of Holodomor, APA reports.

It was determined that 3.5 million people died of hunger in Ukraine in 1932-1933.
940,000 able-to-work people (aged 15-60), 262,000 old people, and 800,000 children died in Ukraine during Holodomor. 600 able-to-work people, 242,000 old people and 594,000 children died in the villages. The researchers found out that the number of the victims in March-July of 1933 was equal to the number of those died in the previous five years.
Kiev, Kharkov, Vinnitsa, Chernigov, Odessa and Moldova Autonomous Republic suffered most during Holodomor.
Holodomor is the plague of hunger occurred in the territory of USSR in 1932-1933.