Druzhkivka

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Druzhkivka
Дружківка
Coat of arms of Druzhkivka
Druhkivka (Ukraine)
Druzhkivka
Druzhkivka
Basic data
Oblast : Donetsk Oblast
Rajon : District-free city
Height : 77 m
Area : 47 km²
Residents : 58,953 (2016)
Population density : 1,254 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes : 84200
Area code : +380 6267
Geographic location : 48 ° 37 '  N , 37 ° 31'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 37 '11 "  N , 37 ° 31' 29"  E
KOATUU : 1411700000
Administrative structure : 1 city, 4 urban-type settlements , 2 villages, 1 settlement
Mayor : Valery Hnatenko
Address: вул. Леніна 16
84205 м. Дружківка
Website : http://druisp.org.ua/
Statistical information
Druzhkivka (Donetsk Oblast)
Druzhkivka
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Druhkivka ( Ukrainian Дружківка ; Russian Дружковка Druzhkovka ) is a city in the Donetsk Oblast in Ukraine with 59,000 inhabitants (2016).

Nicholas Church in Druzhkivka
Railway station in Druzhkivka

geography

Geographical location

The city is located about 12 kilometers south of Kramatorsk and 72 kilometers north of the Oblast capital Donetsk . It belongs to the agglomeration of Kramatorsk and lies at the confluence of the rivers Kasennyj Torez (Казенний Торець) and Kryvyj Torez (Кривий Торець).

Borough

The municipality has a total of 70,286 inhabitants (2012). Besides Druzhkivka belong to the municipality and the urban-type settlements Nowohryhoriwka , Nowomykolajiwka , Oleksijewo-Druzhkivka and Rajske , the villages of Krasny Kut (Красний Кут) and Druschkiwske (Дружківське - 2016 Tscherwonosorjane / Червонозоряне) and the settlement Starorajske (Старорайське).

history

The place was founded by Tsarina Catherine the Great in 1781 and developed strongly after the construction of the Kursk – Kharkov – Azov railway in the 1890s. Through the settlement of various branches of industry, the place continued to grow under Soviet times and received city rights in 1938. In 1945 the Druzhivka tram , which is still in existence today, was opened with currently three lines (out of six).

population

Population development
1923 1926 1939 1959 1970 1979 1989 2001 2005 2016
3,432 5,747 31,781 43,124 53,338 64,310 73,723 64,557 63.226 58,953

Source:

Personalities

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Demography of Ukrainian cities on pop-stat.mashke.org
  2. ↑ Population figures of Donetsk Oblast from the Central Statistical Office in Donetsk
  3. ↑ Верховна Рада України; Постанова від 19.05.2016 № 1377-VIII Про перейменування окремих населених пунктів та районів