Cherkassy

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Cherkassy
Черкаси
Cherkassy coat of arms
Cherkassy (Ukraine)
Cherkassy
Cherkassy
Basic data
Oblast : Cherkasy Oblast
Rajon : District-free city
Height : 110 m
Area : 69.08 km²
Residents : 286,452 (2012)
Population density : 4,147 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes : 18000-18499
Area code : +380 472
Geographic location : 49 ° 25 '  N , 32 ° 4'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 25 '0 "  N , 32 ° 4' 0"  E
KOATUU : 7110100000
Administrative structure : 2 city ​​racks , 1 settlement
Mayor : Serhiy Odarych
Address: вул. Байди Вишневецького 36
18000 м. Черкаси
Website : http://chmr.gov.ua
Statistical information
Cherkassy (Cherkassy Oblast)
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Cherkassy ( Ukrainian Черкаси ; Russian Черкассы ) is a city with 286,000 inhabitants in central Ukraine .

Shevchenko Boulevard

The city has a state and a technical university .

geography

Cherkassy is located southeast of the Cherkassy forest about 160 km southeast of Kiev on the south bank of the Dnepr , which is dammed up to form the Kremenchuk reservoir . Cherkasy is the administrative, economic and cultural center of Cherkasy Oblast . In addition, the city is the center of the Rajon, but not an administrative part of Cherkasy Raion .

history

Cherkassy was first mentioned as a city in 1394. During the Second World War , heavy fighting raged around Cherkassy in the winter of 1943–1944 as part of the Red Army's Dnepr-Carpathian operation . The city was liberated by units of the Soviet 52nd Army on December 14, 1943. End of January to mid-February 1944 it came west of the city in the space Korsun for boiler Battle of Cherkassy . Of the Wehrmacht troops enclosed by the Red Army (including the SS Panzer Division "Wiking" ), 21,000 men (approx. 37.5%) were killed or taken prisoner. The remainder (approx. 35,000 men from the original 56,000) managed to break through to the west.

During the construction of the Druzhba route from 1975 to 1986, Cherkassy was the seat of the building management for the section from Kremenchuk to Bar, which was taken over by the GDR .

The city consists of two Stadtrajonen ( Rajon Prydnipro and Rajon Sosniv ) and the settlement Orschanez ( Оршанець ).

Cherkassy Bridge

traffic

Cherkassy is located on the Moscow - Odessa railway line , which crosses the Kremenchuk reservoir north of the city on an approximately 12 km long car and railway overpass. Local traffic is mainly carried out with an urban trolleybus network that was opened in 1965 and currently has 10 lines, as well as private bus companies on lines licensed by the city.

sons and daughters of the town

Town twinning

Cherkassy maintains the following town twinning

Web links

Commons : Cherkassy  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sister cities of Azerbaijani cities. In: azerbaijans.com. Retrieved January 24, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Chongqing Municipal Government (Chinese)