Horlivka

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Horlivka
Горлівка
Horliwka coat of arms
Horlivka (Ukraine)
Horlivka
Horlivka
Basic data
Oblast : Donetsk Oblast
Rajon : District-free city
Height : 215-316 m
Area : 421.172 km²
Residents : 257,126 (2019)
Population density : 611 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes : 84646
Area code : +380 624
Geographic location : 48 ° 18 '  N , 38 ° 3'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 17 '57 "  N , 38 ° 3' 0"  E
KOATUU : 1410600000
Administrative structure : 3 city rajone , 3 SsT , 1 village, 7 settlements
Address: пр. Перемоги 67
84646 м. Горлівка
Website : http://gorlovka.dn.ua/
Statistical information
Horlivka (Donetsk Oblast)
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Horliwka ( Ukrainian Горлівка ;  Russian Горловка Gorlowka ) is a Ukrainian city ​​with about 255,000 inhabitants (2019).

Culture Palace in Horliwka

Horlivka is located in Donetsk Oblast on the Luhan River, 47 km north of Donetsk . The place has several train stations that connect the railway lines Kharkiv-Horlivka , Otscheretyne-Svervo , Poltava-Rostov and Sumy-Horlivka in the network of Donetska Salisnyzja . The international trunk road M 04 runs south of the village , plus the territorial roads T-05-13 and T-05-16 in the local area.

history

Horliwka was founded as the Korsun station in 1779 and was renamed Gorlowka or Horliwka from 1868 in honor of the Russian geologist Petr Gorlow , as Petr Gorlow found cinnabarite there . During his work for the coal industry in the area, the place grew into a workers' settlement, since 1932 the Horliwka tram has been running in the city.

There were two prisoner-of-war camps in the city, 242 (on the northern edge of the city) and 472 for German prisoners of war of the Second World War . Seriously ill people were cared for in the prisoner-of-war hospitals in 1242 and 6027 .

At the end of April 2014, Horlivka was captured by pro-Russian separatists during the armed conflict in Ukraine . From August 2014, the city has been fought over between separatists and Ukrainian troops, the urban area has been largely occupied by separatists from the so-called Donetsk People's Republic since 2016 .

Political structure

Administrative division of the city

The Horliwka district has a total of 276,069 inhabitants (2012).

Horliwka is divided into:

The area of ​​the urban-type settlement Sajzewe also belonged to the urban area, but was attached to the Bachmut district on September 8, 2016 .

population

Population development
1923 1926 1939 1959 1970 1979 1989 2001 2005 2016 2019
11,476 23,149 181,448 292,616 335.064 336,487 338.106 292,250 279.061 249.048 257.126

Source:

Ethnic composition of the population and mother tongue
nationality number proportion of of which ... as a mother tongue
the language of one's own
nationality		 Ukrainian Russian other no information
all 312.284 100 x x x x x
Ukrainians 160.397 51.4 28.4 28.4 71.5 0.1 0
Russians 139,980 44.8 98.9 1 98.9 0.1 0
Belarusians 4079 1.3 9.4 2.1 88.3 0.2 -
Tatars 876 0.3 17.9 1.7 80.2 0.2 -
Armenians 784 0.3 40.4 0.1 58.6 0.5 0.4
Moldovans 720 0.2 11.3 12.6 76.0 0.1 -
Azerbaijanis 647 0.2 4.34 1.9 53.9 0.8 -

sons and daughters of the town

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Сhyselnist Naselennya po mistakh ta rayonakh. Retrieved December 12, 2019 (Ukrainian).
  2. ↑ Maschke, Erich (ed.): On the history of the German prisoners of war of the Second World War. Verlag Ernst and Werner Gieseking, Bielefeld 1962–1977.
  3. ↑ Spiegel.de:Ukraine_Konflik, separatists storm government buildings
  4. ↑ Map of the current front line on liveuamap.com
  5. ↑ Population figures of Donetsk Oblast from the Central Statistical Office in Donetsk
  6. ↑ Верховна Рада України; Постанова, План від 08.09.2016 № 1520-VIII Про зміни в адміністративно-територіальному устрої Донецької області, зміну і встановлення меж міста Горлівка та Бахмутського району Донецької області
  7. ↑ Demography of Ukrainian cities on pop-stat.mashke.org
  8. ↑ http://history.org.ua/LiberUA/NatsSklRMDonObl/NatsSklRMDonObl.pdf