Kurachowe

Kurachowe
Курахове
	Kurachowe
Basic data
Oblast :	Donetsk Oblast
Rajon :	Marjinka district
Height :	122 m
Area :	24 km²
Residents :	19,677 (2016)
Population density :	820 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes :	85612
Area code :	+380 +6278
Geographic location :	47 ° 59 '  N , 37 ° 16'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 59 '11 "  N , 37 ° 16' 11"  E
KOATUU :	1423310600
Administrative structure :	1 city, 1 urban-type settlement , 1 village, 2 settlements
Mayor :	Serhiy Sashko
Address:	пр-т. К. Маркса 4 85612 м. Курахове
Statistical information
Kurachowe

Kurachowe ( Ukrainian Курахове ; Russian Курахово Kurachowo ) is a city in Ukraine with about 20,000 inhabitants (2016).

View of the city's large power station

Orthodox Church in Kurachowe

geography

Kurakhove lies in the west of the Donetsk Oblast on the left bank of the Kurachower reservoir , a traffic jam of Wowtscha -Flusses. The city is located about 50 km west of Donetsk on the trunk road N 15 .

Administratively, belongs to the City Council community adjacent to the city and the urban-type settlement Illinka , the village Stepaniwka ( Степанівка ) and the settlements Ostriwske ( Острівське ) and Stari Terny ( Старі Терни ).

A high-voltage overhead line has been running from the Kurachowe power plant to Zaporizhia since 1964 . The local train station is in the eastern part of Roja.

history

Kurachowe arose in 1936 from a workers' settlement that was built for workers from the nearby power station and was called Kurachowgrjesstroj ( Кураховгрэсстрой ) until 1943 , then until 1956 Kurachowgrjes ( Кураховгрэс ). A POW camp was located in the Roja district until 1950. In 1956 the village had grown so much that it was declared a city.

population

Population development

1979	1989	2001	2010	2019
20.091	22,155	21,479	20,224	18,782

Swell:

economy

The most important employers are a large coal-fired power station for electricity and heat generation and a steel mill.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Population figures on pop-stat
2. ↑ City history (Russian)