Kharkivite

From Kharkiv +‎ -ite.

Kharkivite (plural Kharkivites)

1. A native or inhabitant of Kharkiv, Ukraine.

   Synonym: Kharkivian

   • 2022 May 19, James Verini, “Surviving the Siege of Kharkiv”, in The New York Times Magazine‎^[1]:

     Kharkiv is 25 miles from the Russian border. Like many Kharkivites, he had family in Russia. The distinction between the two countries meant little to him before the war. His father’s people lived near Moscow.

   • 2025 August 20, Vitali Vitaliev, “A railway's human qualities”, in RAIL, number 1042, page 68:

     Let me finish with a quote from a small book, just received from Ukraine. Titled 30 Poems about Love and the Railways, and written by Serhiy Zhadan, my fellow Kharkivite and Ukraine's best (in my view) modern writer and poet, it was published in April 2023 - one year into the full-scale invasion: […] .