Kodyma

Kodyma
Кодима
	Kodyma
Basic data
Oblast :	Odessa Oblast
Rajon :	Kodyma district
Height :	285 m
Area :	10.53 km²
Residents :	9,493 (2004)
Population density :	902 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes :	66000
Area code :	+380 4867
Geographic location :	48 ° 6 '  N , 29 ° 8'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 5 '58 "  N , 29 ° 7' 38"  E
KOATUU :	5122510100
Administrative structure :	1 city
Mayor :	Olexandr Meleschko
Address:	вул. Леніна 88 66000 м. Кодима
Statistical information
Kodyma

Kodyma (Ukrainian Кодима , Russian Кодыма , Romanian Codâma ) is a city in southern Ukraine with about 9,000 inhabitants and the administrative center of the Kodyma Rajon of the same name .

geography

Kodyma is located about 218 kilometers northwest of Odessa . The Kodyma river of the same name rises near the city and flows into the Southern Bug .

Orthodox church in the city

history

The place was founded in 1754. The settlement developed very strongly after the construction of a railway connection. Between 1924 and 1940 the place was part of the Moldovan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic .

During the Second World War were in Kodyma on August 1, 1941 by officers of the XXX. Army Corps of Wehrmacht , the SS Einsatzkommando 10a required to mass shootings and hostage arrests carried out that were aimed to ignite reported plans of Jews and Bolsheviks, the crop inventories by an alleged Ukrainian informant and to attack German troops to cross. 400 people of all ages and genders were rounded up in the Jewish quarter of Kodyma, around a hundred of them were shot on the spot. Of the remainder, 170 were held hostage, for whose food the community had to pay.

Kodyma received city status in 1979.

Station building in place

Personalities

• Stanisław Skalski (born November 27, 1915 in Kodyma, † November 12, 2004 in Warsaw), fighter pilot and officer in the Polish Air Force in World War II

Individual evidence

1. ^ Norbert Müller: occupation, robbery, annihilation. Berlin 1980, p. 69ff.

Web links

Commons : Kodyma  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Unofficial website about the city