Borki /ˈbɔrki/ noun1 •(historical) A free settlement, the administrative centre of Borchanskaya volost, Zmiev Uyezd, Kharkov Governorate, the Russian Empire, site of the Borki train disaster of 1888; now the village of Birky in Zmiiv urban hromada, Chuhuiv Raion, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine.[…] on October 29, 1888, the Russian imperial train was derailed at Borki by defective track, and twenty-one persons were killed. — 1945
