Kotelwa

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Kotelwa
Котельва
Coat of arms of Kotelwa
Kotelwa (Ukraine)
Kotelwa
Kotelwa
Basic data
Oblast : Poltava Oblast
Rajon : Kotelwa district
Height : 102 m
Area : 26.87 km²
Residents : 12,122 (2019)
Population density : 451 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes : 38600
Area code : +380 5350
Geographic location : 50 ° 4 '  N , 34 ° 45'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 3 '44 "  N , 34 ° 45' 29"  E
KOATUU : 5322255100
Administrative structure : 1 urban-type settlement , 3 villages
Address: вул. Полтавський шлях буд. 224
38600 смт. Котельва
Website : http://kotelva.com.ua/
Statistical information
Kotelwa (Poltava Oblast)
Kotelwa
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Kotelwa ( Ukrainian and Russian Котельва ) is an urban-type settlement and the administrative center of the raion of the same name in the east of the Ukrainian Poltava Oblast with about 12,100 inhabitants (2019).

Trinity Church in Kotelwa

geography

Kotelwa is located on the small tributary of the Worskla , the Kotelwa ( Котельва ) and its tributaries, the Oreschnja ( Орешня ) and the Kotelewka ( Котелевка ). The Poltava Oblast Center is 69 km south of the settlement and can be reached via the N 12 highway .

In addition to Kotelwa, the settlement council also includes the villages of Kaminne ( Камінне ), Mychailowe ( Михайлове ) and Tscherneschtschyna ( Черне gehörenина ).

history

Kotelwa was first mentioned in writing in 1582. The settlement was built around a fortress built in the early seventeenth century to protect the territory of Sloboda-Ukraine from attacks by the Crimean and Nogai Tatars . On October 9, 1941, the village was occupied by Wehrmacht troops and liberated by Red Army troops on September 9, 1943 . Since 1971 Kotelwa has had the status of an urban-type settlement.

Population development

1959 1970 1979 1989 2001 2008 2013 2019
11,984 11,945 12,029 12,943 12,667 12,495 12,459 12,122

Source: ;

Personalities

The Ukrainian-Soviet partisan leader and Soviet major general Sydir Kowpak was born in the village in 1887 .

Rajon

Coat of arms of Kotelwa Raion

Kotelwa is the administrative seat of the Rajons of the same name, founded in 1923. The Rajon Kotelva is located in the eastern part of Poltava , bordered to the north by the Sumy and to the east by the Kharkiv Oblast . It has 19,900 inhabitants and an area of ​​795 km². The population density is 25 inhabitants per km².

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Demography of Ukrainian cities on pop-stat.mashke.org
  2. ↑ Local website on the official website of the Verkhovna Rada ; accessed on September 10, 2019 (Ukrainian)
  3. ^ Local history of Kotelwa in the history of the cities and villages of the Ukrainian SSR ; accessed on September 10, 2019 (Ukrainian)