Kupyansk

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Kupyansk
Куп'янськ
Kupyansk coat of arms
Kupjansk (Ukraine)
Kupyansk
Kupyansk
Basic data
Oblast : Kharkiv Oblast
Rajon : District-free city
Height : 79 m
Area : 33.43 km²
Residents : 29,057 (2015)
Population density : 869 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes : 63700
Area code : +380 5742
Geographic location : 49 ° 42 '  N , 37 ° 36'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 42 '0 "  N , 37 ° 36' 0"  E
KOATUU : 6310700000
Administrative structure : 1 city , 2 urban-type settlements
Mayor : Volodymyr Volodymyrowytsch Demchenko
Address: вул. Леніна 3
63701 м. Куп'янськ
Website : http://www.kupyansk.osp-ua.info/
Statistical information
Kupyansk (Kharkiv Oblast)
Kupyansk
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Kupjansk ( Ukrainian Куп'янськ ; Russian Купянск Kupjansk ) is a city in the east of the Ukrainian Oblast Kharkiv with about 30,000 inhabitants (2015). After Kharkiv , Kupjansk is the oblast's second largest railway junction on the Belgorod ( Russia ) –Kupjansk railway line, which opened in 1896.

The city is the administrative center of the raion of the same name , but not part of it itself.

geography

The city lies on the Oskil , a left tributary of the Donets , 124 km southeast of Kharkiv and 40 km from the Russian border. The city is an important railway junction, through the village leading railway Kharkov-Balashov and railway Sumy Horlivka and by these branching off the railway line Kupyansk-sviatohirsk the Piwdenna Salisnyzja -Eisenbahngesellschaft which also operates one of four rail directorates in place.

In addition to the city itself, the municipality also includes the urban-type Kiwschariwka (Ukrainian Ківшарівка ) and Kupjansk-Wuslowyj (Ukrainian Куп'янськ-Вузловий ) settlements, the latter forming its own settlement council municipality within the urban district. The total population of the municipality is 59,000 (January 2010).

history

Founded in 1655, Kupyansk has had city status since 1779. In the 19th century, the city was the administrative center of the Ujesd Kupjansk in the Kharkov governorate. Since 1780 Kupyansk belonged to the Voronezh Governorate . In the 19th century, the city was the administrative center of the Ujesd Kupjansk in the Kharkov governorate . Kupyansk was occupied from June 24, 1942 to February 3, 1943 by troops of the German Wehrmacht .

Population development

1897 1923 1926 1939 1959 1970 1979 1989 2001 2015
6,893 9,952 15,109 20,961 25,644 30,055 33,860 35.001 32,449 29,057

Source: 1897–1959, 1970, 1979, 1989–2015

Rajon

Coat of Arms of Kupiansk raion.png

The Kupyansk Raion, founded on April 12, 1923 and administered from Kupyansk, has an area of ​​1,280.3 km² and a population of 29,581 inhabitants. The population density of the Rajons is 23 inhabitants per km².

Personalities

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Demography of Ukrainian cities on pop-stat.mashke.org
  2. ↑ Business card of the city (Ukrainian)
  3. ↑ 1970 Census of the USSR ( Memento of December 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) on webgeo.ru
  4. ↑ Census of the USSR 1979 ( Memento of May 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) on webgeo.ru