Komyschuwacha (Orichiw)

Komyschuwacha
Комишуваха
	Komyschuwacha
Basic data
Oblast :	Zaporizhia Oblast
Rajon :	Orichiv Raion
Height :	29 m
Area :	6.77 km²
Residents :	5,376 (2014)
Population density :	794 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes :	70530
Area code :	+380 6141
Geographic location :	47 ° 43 '  N , 35 ° 31'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 43 '10 "  N , 35 ° 31' 29"  E
KOATUU :	2323955400
Administrative structure :	1 urban-type settlement , 2 villages
Address:	вул. Б.Хмельницького 49 70530 смт. Комишуваха
Website :	Local government site
Statistical information
Komyschuwacha

Komyschuwacha ( Ukrainian Комишуваха ; Russian Камышеваха Kamyshevacha ) is an urban-type settlement in the south of the Ukrainian Oblast of Zaporizhia with about 5300 inhabitants (2014).

Komyschuwacha is located in Orichiw district on the Kinska , a 146 km long tributary of the Dnieper . Orichiv district center is 29 km southwest and Zaporizhia oblast center is 33 km northwest of Komyschuwacha. Territorial road T-08-03 runs through the village . Komyschuwacha has a train station on the Zaporizhia – Polohy railway line .

The village, founded in 1770, is the center of the settlement council of the same name and received the status of an urban-type settlement in 1957. The Komyschuwacha settlement council also includes the villages of Hryhorivske ( Григорівське ) with about 160 inhabitants and Odariwka ( Одарівка ) with about 200 inhabitants.

Komyschuwacha is the birthplace of Ivan Hruschezkyj (1904-1982), a Ukrainian-Soviet politician who was chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic from 1972 to 1976 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cities in Ukraine at pop-stat.mashke.org, last accessed on December 18, 2014