Donets (Balaklija)

Donets (Balaklija)
Донець
	Donets (Balaklija)
Basic data
Oblast :	Kharkiv Oblast
Rajon :	Balaklija district
Height :	85 m
Area :	1.38 km²
Residents :	8,927 (2014)
Population density :	6,469 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes :	64250
Area code :	+380 5749
Geographic location :	49 ° 31 ′  N , 36 ° 34 ′  E Coordinates: 49 ° 30 ′ 31 ″  N , 36 ° 34 ′ 20 ″  E
KOATUU :	6320256000
Administrative structure :	1 urban-type settlement , 4 villages
Mayor :	Tetjana Hryhorivna Pryhoditsch
Address:	вул. Леніна 40 64250 смт. Донець
Statistical information
Donets (Balaklija)

Donets (Ukrainian Донець , Russian Донец ) is an urban-type settlement in the center of the Ukrainian Oblast Kharkiv with about 9,000 inhabitants (2014).

The place was founded in 1924 and received urban-type settlement status in 1959. Until May 12, 2016 the place was called Tscherwonyj Donets (Ukrainian Червоний Донець, "red Donets") and was then renamed in the course of the Ukrainian decommunization.

The village is located on the bank of the Siversky Donets across from Andriivka and is about 70 km south of the Kharkiv oblast center and 30 km west of the Balaklija district center .

Donets is the administrative center of the settlement council Municipality in Rajon Balakliia to which even the villages Dalnja Schebelynka ( Дальня Шебелинка ) Kopanka ( Копанка ) Prohres ( Прогрес ) and Chervona Hirka ( Червона Гірка ) belong.

Sons and daughters of the settlement

• Olga Sljussarewa (* 1969), Russian cyclist and Olympic champion

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Demographics of Ukrainian cities on pop-stat.mashke.org, accessed April 13, 2014
2. ↑ Верховна Рада України; Постанова від 12.05.2016 № 1353-VIII Про перейменування деяких населених пунктів