Osipenko was born in 1907 in Novospasovka, currently Zaporizhia Oblast of Ukraine, in a peasant family, as Polina Dudnik.
The Zaporizhia Oblast is administratively subdivided into 20 raions (districts) as well as 5 cities (municipalities) which are directly subordinate to the oblast government: Berdiansk, Enerhodar, Melitopol, Tokmak, and the administrative center of the oblast, Zaporizhia.
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The territory of the oblast came under the dominion of the Golden Horde after the fall of Kievan Rus'.
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Along with a number of other villages in northwestern Azerbaijan, Slavyanka was settled in 1844 by the Doukhobors, members of a Pacifist dissenter Christian group resettled to Transcaucasia by Nicholas I from the Molochna River settlements in today's Zaporizhia Oblast of the Ukraine.
Molotschna (formerly named Halbstadt), a Russian Mennonite settlement in Zaporizhia Oblast, Ukraine