Kremenchuk

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Kremenchuk
Кременчук
Kremenchuk coat of arms
Kremenchuk (Ukraine)
Kremenchuk
Kremenchuk
Basic data
Oblast : Poltava Oblast
Rajon : District-free city
Height : 80 m
Area : 92.0 km²
Residents : 230,185 (January 1, 2006)
Population density : 2,502 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes : 39600-39689
Area code : +380 536
Geographic location : 49 ° 4 ′  N , 33 ° 25 ′  E Coordinates: 49 ° 4 ′ 0 ″  N , 33 ° 25 ′ 0 ″  E
KOATUU : 5310400000
Administrative structure : 2 city ​​racks
Address: пл. Перемоги, 2 2
39614 м. Кременчук
Website : http://kremen.gov.ua/
Statistical information
Kremenchuk (Poltava Oblast)
Kremenchuk
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Kremenchuk ( Ukrainian Кременчук ; Russian Кременчуг Kremenchug , Polish Krzemieńczuk ) is a commercial and industrial city in the south of the central Ukrainian Poltava Oblast , which is about 300 km southeast of Kiev on both sides of the Dnieper . The name of the place is derived from the Ukrainian word kremin (flint). Administratively, the city is divided into two urban rajons Avtosavod Raion and Krjukiw Raion , around the city area lies the Kremenchuk Raion , the city is its administrative center, but not part of it itself, but directly subordinated to the Oblast administration.

history

Traces of settlement up to the 5th century BC can be found in the area of ​​the city of Kremenchuk. Trace back to BC. The exact founding date of today's Kremenchuk is controversial. There is indeed a Polish document from 1571 in which the Polish King Siegismund II decreed to build a fort on the site of today's Kremenchuk in order to protect this region, which lies in the eastern border area of ​​the Polish sphere of influence, from incursions by the Tartars . Historical investigations leave doubts as to whether this fort was actually built. The fortress may not have been built until 1596. After the city came under the control of the Cossacks in the Treaty of Kurukiw in 1625, the fortification system was expanded in 1635 by the French fortress engineer Guillaume Levasseur de Boplan . In the further course of the 17th century, however, urban development was hampered by wars in the region.

Pictures from Kremenchuk

In the 18th century, Kremenchuk benefited from its favorable location on trade routes and grew significantly. During this time the city, which until then the border between came Poland , which, for the Ottoman Empire belonging Crimean khanate , the Cossacks and the Russian Empire was more and more under the influence of the expanding south Russian Empire, the town was finally incorporated. Between 1765 and 1789 it was the provincial capital of the Province of New Russia until 1783 and from 1784 of the Yekaterinoslav Governorate . During the Russo-Turkish War (1787–91) the city was an important army base. Political importance declined at the end of the 18th century and the city was downgraded from a provincial to a county town. From 1802 it belonged to the Poltava Governorate .

In economic terms, however, the city enjoyed a strong boom as a trading and manufacturing center. This increased further with the connection to the railway network and the construction of a railway bridge over the Dnieper in 1873. In 1897 63,007 people lived in the city, with Jews making up the largest ethnic group with 46.9%. Other larger ethnic groups were Ukrainians (30.1%), Russians (19.3%), Poles (1.7%) and Germans (0.7%).

In the 20th century, the city suffered heavy losses during the Russian Civil War and World War II . A large part of the Jewish population was killed during the German occupation . After the war and reconstruction, the city's industrial development continued. After the collapse of the Soviet Union , industry was able to hold its own relatively well in the transformation crisis.

coat of arms

Description: A white bar in blue . A three-tower, silver wall crown on a shield historicized with a gold rim.

Economy, education and transport

The Dnepr near Kremenchuk

From an economic point of view , automobile construction ( KrAZ ), wagon construction Krjukow and the oil processing industry are of particular importance. Kremenchuk is also an important hub for oil and gas pipelines. Above the city there is a large dam on which the Dnepr is dammed up to the Kremenchuk reservoir . In addition to the hydroelectric power station located on this dam , the city also has a thermal power station .

There are two universities in Kremenchuk with around 16,000 students.

1. Kremenchuk State Polytechnic University (SPU)

2. Private University of Economics, Information Technologies and Management

The city is also an important rail and transport hub in central Ukraine.

Demographics

Source: pop-stat.mashke.org

Town twinning

sons and daughters of the town

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tschyselnist najawnoho naselennja Ukrajiny, Kiev 2006
  2. ↑ Україна / Ukrajina ( Ukrainian ) pop-stat.mashke.org. Retrieved August 20, 2019.