Amvrosiyivka

Amvrosiyivka
Амвросіївка
	Amvrosiyivka
Basic data
Oblast :	Donetsk Oblast
Rajon :	Amvrosiyivka district
Height :	164 m
Area :	19.4 km²
Residents :	18,259 (2018)
Population density :	941 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes :	87300
Area code :	+380 6259
Geographic location :	47 ° 48 '  N , 38 ° 30'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 47 '48 "  N , 38 ° 29' 33"  E
KOATUU :	1420610100
Administrative structure :	1 city
Address:	вул. Леніна 24 87300 м. Амвросіївка
Website :	http://amvrosievka.dn.ua/
Statistical information
Amvrosiyivka

Amwrossijiwka ( Ukrainian Амвросіївка ; Russian Амвросиевка Amwrossijewka ) is a city in eastern Ukraine with about 18,200 inhabitants (2018).

The city is the administrative seat of the raion of the same name and a center of the cement industry with a train station on the Moscow - Rostov-on-Don railway line .

geography

Amvrosiivka is located in the southern Donbass in the center of Amvrosiivka Raion in Donetsk Oblast 82 km southeast of Donetsk Oblast center and 29 km south of Tores .

history

The settlement was founded as a train station on the newly built Kursk - Kharkiv - Azov railway line in 1869 under the name Donetsko-Amwrossijewka / Donezko-Amwrossijiwka (Донецко-Амвросиевка / Донецьсиевка / Донециевка / Донециевко-Амвроete, the name of the village, which lies further north of the village. today Blahodatne ). The further development of the settlement was based on the mining of marl , the most important raw material for cement production , the rich deposits of which were discovered in 1836 on the banks of the Krynka River , a right tributary of the Mius . The first cement factory was built in 1896. On January 25, 1923, Amvrosiivka became a district center and on January 15, 1929, Amvrosiivka received urban-type settlement status . In 1938 the settlement was elevated to a city. From October 22, 1941 to August 23, 1943, the city was occupied by Wehrmacht troops, and in 1944 it was renamed to its current name. Since the summer of 2014, the city has been in the hands of the separatists of the Donetsk People's Republic during the war in Ukraine .

population

Population development

1926	1939	1959	1970	1979	1989	2001	2005	2014
2,839	15.001	20,037	24,330	24,406	23,951	22,130	21,057	18,682

Swell:

Web links

Commons : Amvrosiivka  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Offic. City Council website ( Memento from May 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (Russian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Demographics of Ukrainian cities on pop-stat.mashke.org, accessed on February 18, 2019
2. ↑ City history ( Memento of the original from April 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Russian)  
3. ↑ Brief history of the city (Russian)