Jelanez

Jelanez
Єланець
	Jelanez
Basic data
Oblast :	Mykolaiv Oblast
Rajon :	Jelanets district
Height :	no information
Area :	6.1 km²
Residents :	4,915 (2016)
Population density :	806 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes :	55500
Area code :	+380 5159
Geographic location :	47 ° 42 '  N , 31 ° 51'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 41 '52 "  N , 31 ° 51' 16"  E
KOATUU :	4823055100
Administrative structure :	1 urban-type settlement , 2 villages
Mayor :	Lyubov Vasylivna Badenko
Address:	вул. Горького 20 55500 смт. Єланець
Statistical information
Jelanez

Jelanez ( Ukrainian Єланець ; Russian Еланец ) is an urban-type in the south of the Ukraine lying oblast Mykolajiw with about 4900 inhabitants (2016). Jelanez is the administrative center of the Rajon of the same name .

geography

Taras Shevchenko monument in the place

Jelanez is located 90 km north of the Mykolaiv Oblast Center on the Hnylyj Jelanez River ( Гнилий Єланець ), a 103 km long left tributary of the Southern Bug . The nearest train station is in Voznesensk , 45 km west of the village.

In addition to Jelanez, the settlement council also includes the villages Bratoljubiwka ( Братолюбівка ) with about 490 inhabitants and Velidariwka ( Велідарівка ) with about 390 inhabitants.

history

The village with the original name Hnylyj Jelanez was founded between 1802 and 1804 by Cossacks , whose main source of income was cattle breeding and fishing. From 1810 to 1858 the village was called Novomoskowsk ( Новомосковськ ) and then received its current name. The village was occupied by Wehrmacht troops on August 8, 1941 , and liberated by Red Army troops on March 19, 1944 . Jelanez has had urban-type settlement status since 1968.

Population development

1815	1885	1939	1959	1970	1979	1989	2001	2012	2016
449	3,437	4,500	3,260	4,541	4,837	5,852	5,681	4,957	4,915

Source: 1815-1939; 1959-2016

Personalities

• Halyna Serhijiwna Losko (* 1952), ethnologist and religious scholar
• Yuri Pawlowitsch Gidsenko (* 1962), Russian cosmonaut

Rajon

Jelanez is the administrative center of the Rajons of the same name, founded in 1926. The Rajon Jelanez bordered to the north by the Oblast Kirovohrad , has 15,900 inhabitants and an area of 1,017.7 square kilometers. The population density is 16 inhabitants per km².

See also : List of Rajons of Ukraine

Web links

• History of Cities and Villages of Ukraine -Jelanets- (Russian)
• Yelanets Raion website (Ukrainian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Page Jelanets Rajon on the Oblast website (Ukrainian)
2. ↑ ^{a b} Demography of Ukrainian cities on pop-stat.mashke.org
3. ↑ ^{a b} History of the Cities and Villages of Ukraine -Jelanez- on ukrssr.ru (Russian)