Losowa

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Losowa (disambiguation) .

Losowa
Лозова
	Losowa
Basic data
Oblast :	Kharkiv Oblast
Rajon :	District-free city
Height :	189 m
Area :	18.10 km²
Residents :	57,407 (2015)
Population density :	3,172 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes :	64602
Area code :	+380 5745
Geographic location :	48 ° 53 '  N , 36 ° 19'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 53 '20 "  N , 36 ° 18' 47"  E
KOATUU :	6311000000
Administrative structure :	1 city, 1 urban-type settlement , 5 villages
Address:	вул. Орджонікідзе 1 64602 м. Лозова
Website :	Official City Council website
Statistical information
Losowa

Losowa ( Ukrainian Лозова ; Russian Лозовая Losowaja ) is a city in Ukraine in the Kharkiv Oblast with 57,000 inhabitants (2015).

Losowa Railway Station

It is the center of the Rajons lozova and divided addition to the actual city is still in the urban-type settlement Panjutyne and villages Chlibne ( Хлібне ) Domacha ( Домаха ) Hersewaniwske ( Герсеванівське ) Lissiwske ( Лісівське ) and Ukrajinske ( Українське ) until 2016 Dymytrowa / Димитрова .

geography

Losowa is located at an altitude of 189  m on the bank of the Brytaj ( Бритай ), an 84 km long tributary of the Bereka , about 120 km south of the Kharkiv Oblast center . Territorial roads T-21-07 and T-21-13 run through the city .

history

The town, founded in 1639, was granted city rights in 1869. As early as 1869, a station was opened on the Sevastopol – Kharkiv railway line , and further lines were later opened , making the city an important railway hub in the oblast.

On October 27, 2008, there was an explosion in a military depot, but no injuries or deaths were reported.

population

Population development

1923	1926	1939	1959	1970	1979	1989	2001	2005	2015
11,311	12,905	22.008	28,730	35,641	53,423	72.991	64,041	61,436	57,407

Swell:

sons and daughters of the town

• Olexandr Hladkyj (* 1987), Ukrainian football player
• Hugo Jedig (1920–1991), Russian-German linguist, historian
• Wladimir Alexejewitsch Kutscherenko (1909–1963), Soviet civil engineer and politician
• Anatol Rapoport (1911–2007), central thought leader in systems science

Web links

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

• Entry on the place in the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine (Ukrainian)
• Municipality website on rada.info (Ukrainian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Demography of Ukrainian cities on pop-stat.mashke.org
2. ↑ Верховна Рада України; Постанова від 17.03.2016 № 1037-VIII Про перейменування окремих населених пунктів
3. ↑ City history Losowa in the history of the cities and villages of the Ukrainian SSR ; accessed on June 7, 2019 (Ukrainian)