Biryukovo (Ukrainian: Бірюкове, Russian: Бирюково) (formerly Krinichnoe, before 1921, Russian: Криничное) is a town in Luhansk Oblast (province) of south-eastern Ukraine.
It is situated in 18 km from Sverdlovsk near the river Kundrjutsja, feeder of Seversky Donets. The nearest railway station, Dolzhanskaya, is situated in 12 km out of Biryukovo. Villages Bratskoe and Dolzhanskiy is under subordination of Biryukovo, because it is a center of Village Council.[1]
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Biryukovo was found in 1778 by serfs from villages Rovenky and Krasnovka, as village Krinichnoe (Krinichne).
In December 1917 Soviet government take a control under village.[1]
In 1920 it was renamed in Biryukovo, in honor of the Communist, chairman of the Council of Peasant Deputies Biryukov V.M., who was killed in March by local opponents of Soviet government.[1]
About a thousand of citizens were participants of World War II , about 340 died, more than 700 were awarded.
In 1964 it got a status of urban-type settlement.