Pyatychatky

Pyatychatky

П'ятихатки

Pyatychatky

Basic data

Oblast :

Dnepropetrovsk Oblast

Rajon :

Pyatychatky district

Height :

no information

Area :

18.38 km²

Residents :

18,868 (2015)

Population density :

1,027 inhabitants per km²

Postcodes :

52100

Area code :

+380 5651

Geographic location :

48 ° 25 ' N , 33 ° 42' E Coordinates: 48 ° 24 '45 " N , 33 ° 42' 15" E

KOATUU :

1224510100

Administrative structure :

1 city

Address:

вул. Желєзнякова 79
52 100 м. П'ятихатки

Website :

http://www.vkpmr.org.ua/

Statistical information

Pyatychatky

Pjatychatky ( Ukrainian П'ятихатки ; Russian Пятихатки Pjatichatki ) is a small town in the Ukrainian Oblast Dnipropetrovsk with 18,300 inhabitants (2015). The city is the administrative center of the Pyatychatky Rajon , the name literally means "five small houses".

Entrance to the town with a railway memorial

The city is more like a large village, which consists of many streets laid out at right angles, which are lined with wooden poles and trees with small parcels behind, on which mostly single-storey, small houses stand. Only the area at the passenger station has an urban character with the bus station in front of it and the main street between the Orthodox Church and the monument to the " Great Patriotic War ", on which there are also the monuments to the sailor and anarchist Anatoly Zheleznyakov (Russian Анатолий Железняков ) and Lenin and those who fell in the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan and the German-Soviet war .

traffic

Pyatychatky Railway Station

Pjatychatky is best known for its freight and passenger station. Overland trains run from the station to Kiev , Dnipro or Donetsk . In addition, there are some of the small intercity buses, the so-called Marschrutka , which drive to the surrounding towns and villages, such as Schowti Vody , Wyschnewe and Bohdano-Nadeschdiwka .

The city is on the M 04 / E 50 trunk road .

history

Katharinenbahn postcard from 1900

In 1886, the first five houses were for the railway station on the route Kolatschewske ( Колачевське ) - Verkhivtseve of Catherine railway built. The station was named together with the place. The current station building dates from 1898. In 1932 and 1933 the place was hit by the Holodomor , a great famine in Ukraine. Three weeks after the attack on the Soviet Union , the city was occupied by the Wehrmacht on August 13, 1941 and became the capital of the Pjatichatka district (consisting of the former districts of Friesendorf, Pjatichatka and Sofijewka ) within the general district of Dnjepropetrovsk in the Reich Commissariat of Ukraine . Area Commissioner was Ernst Duschön .

Orthodox Church in Pyatychatky

As a strategic railway junction, the city was important for the Wehrmacht's supplies. During the second phase of the Dnepr-offensive to recapture on October 19, 1943 the troops of the Steppe Front of the Red Army in 1962, the railway line was Znamianka -Pjatychatky electrified.