Balta

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Balta
Балта
Balta coat of arms
Balta (Ukraine)
Balta
Balta
Basic data
Oblast : Odessa Oblast
Rajon : District-free city
Height : no information
Area : 22.79 km²
Residents : 18,674 (2018)
Population density : 819 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes : 66105
Area code : +380 4866
Geographic location : 47 ° 55 ′  N , 29 ° 40 ′  E Coordinates: 47 ° 55 ′ 0 ″  N , 29 ° 40 ′ 0 ″  E
KOATUU : 5120610100
Administrative structure : 1 city
Mayor : Ivan Barbasch
Address: ул. Котовського 193
66101 м. Балта
Statistical information
Balta (Odessa Oblast)
Balta
Balta
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Balta ( Ukrainian and Russian Балта ) is a Ukrainian city ​​with around 19,000 inhabitants (as of 2018). It is located on the banks of the Kodyma in the north of Odessa Oblast about 200  km from Odessa and 160 km from Uman .

history

According to archaeological finds, the first settlements existed five to six thousand years ago. The city was founded in the 16th century by the Tatars and named after the Turkish word for ax ( balta ).

In the late 17th and 18th centuries, the city was divided into two parts, as the Polish city ​​of Józefgród , named after the Polish prince Josef Lubomirski , was built across the Kodyma river across from the Turkish city .

The attack by a Russian Cossack regiment on Polish patriots who had fled to Balta formed the occasion for the Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774) .

After the Russians had taken Ukraine from the Turks in 1792 Jedisan and from the Poles in 1795, the two cities Balta and Jozefgród were united in 1797 and part of the Russian Empire under the name Balta . Balta became the capital of Ujesd in the governorate of Podolia . People of different origins and beliefs lived in this city. For example: Ukrainians , Russians , Belarusians , Poles , Moldovans ( Romanians ), Jews , Tatars and Gypsies .

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the population consisted of Jews (55–82%, today less than 1%), Russian Orthodox (15–25%, today 85–90%), Catholics (mostly Poles, 4–9 %) and Old Orthodox (4–12%) together. Some representatives of Protestant churches also lived here. The city was known for its grain markets. Here the main road from the south to the north and the main road from the west to the east of Ukraine and Russia crossed.

From 1924 to 1929, Balta was the capital of the Moldovan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (MASSR) within the Ukrainian Soviet Republic. In 1940 the MASSR was dissolved. Two thirds of it, now Transnistria , were attached to the Moldovan Soviet Socialist Republic . In the eastern third, ethnic Ukrainians made up the majority and so this area, in which Balta was also located, remained in Ukraine. In 1940, Balta became the administrative center of the Balta Rajon of the same name . Since February 4, 2016, the city has been under oblast administration instead of under Rajons administration as before.

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economy

The city has furniture, brick and textile factories, and a food industry . Leading educational institutions are a teacher training center and a vocational school. There is a museum dedicated to the history of the region and a Ukrainian Ethnographic Museum.

Sons of the city

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cities and towns in Ukraine on pop-stat.mashke , accessed on July 5, 2019
  2. ↑ Верховна Рада України; Постанова від 04.02.2016 № 985-VIII Про віднесення міста Балта Балтського району Одеської областіїо до категоріо до категорріїо до категорріїо до категорз