Melitopol

Melitopol

Мелітополь

Melitopol

Basic data

Oblast :

Zaporizhia Oblast

Rajon :

District-free city

Height :

no information

Area :

49.66 km²

Residents :

153,992 (2018)

Population density :

3,101 inhabitants per km²

Postcodes :

72300-72312

Area code :

+380 6192

Geographic location :

46 ° 50 ' N , 35 ° 22' E Coordinates: 46 ° 50 '24 " N , 35 ° 22' 12" E

KOATUU :

2323000000

Administrative structure :

1 city

Address:

вул. К. Маркса 5
72312 м. Мелітополь

Website :

http://www.mlt.gov.ua/

Statistical information

Melitopol

Melitopol ( Ukrainian Мелітополь ; Russian Мелитополь ) is the center of the raion of the same name in the Zaporizhia Oblast in Ukraine with around 154,000 inhabitants (2018). The city is an important industrial center in the south of the oblast and is located about 60 km north of the Sea of Azov , 110 km south of Zaporizhia and 120 km west of Berdyansk .

Agrotechnological University

Melitopol from the air

city Park

history

In 1816 a settlement called Novoalexandrowka was founded on this site . In 1842 it received city rights and was renamed Melitopol.

In Melitopol there was a prisoner of war camp 424 for German prisoners of war of World War II . It was moved here from Nalchik .

Population development

The population developed as follows:

Sources: 1939: 1959: 1979: from 1989:

sons and daughters of the town

Mieczysław Michałowicz (1872–?), Polish violinist and music teacher

Dmytro Donzow (1883–1973), lawyer and publicist

Samuel Kaylin (1892–1983), Ukrainian-American film composer

Michail Lifschitz (1905–1983), Soviet Marxist literary critic and art philosopher

Pavel Sudoplatow (1907–1996), lieutenant general of the Soviet secret service NKVD

Zot Nekrasow (1908–1990), metallurgist

Grigori Tschuchrai (1921–2001), Soviet film director and screenwriter

Oleksandr Wosianow (1938–2018), doctor and academy president
Anatolij Naumänko (* 1941), literary researcher, linguist, translation scholar
Vladimir Pronichev (* 1953), Russian officer
Yevhen Khacheridi (* 1987), football player

Twin cities

Melitopol is twin town of the following cities and areas:

France Brive-la-Gaillarde , France
Russia Akademichesky Rajon (to Moscow ), Russia
Belarus Baryssau , Belarus
Belarus Pukhavichy Rajon , Belarus
Lithuania Kėdainiai , Lithuania
Bulgaria Sliven , Bulgaria

traffic

The city of Melitopol has two bus stations: bus station 1 Melitopol for long-distance bus traffic and bus station 2 Melitopol for regional traffic .

Rajon

The Melitopol Rajon, administered from Melitopol, has an area of 1780 km² and a population of 50,329 inhabitants (2012). The population density is 28 inhabitants per km².

Web links

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

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Population figures on pop-stat.mashke
↑ Maschke, Erich (ed.): On the history of the German prisoners of war of the Second World War. Verlag Ernst and Werner Gieseking, Bielefeld 1962–1977.
↑ Population development on Citypolulation.de
↑ 1959 Census of the USSR on webgeo.ru (Russian)
↑ Census of the USSR 1979 on webgeo.ru (Russian)

[Bevölkerungszahlen-1] Population figures on pop-stat.mashke

[2] Maschke, Erich (ed.): On the history of the German prisoners of war of the Second World War. Verlag Ernst and Werner Gieseking, Bielefeld 1962–1977.

[Citypopulation-3] Population development on Citypolulation.de

[Volkszählung1959-4] 1959 Census of the USSR on webgeo.ru (Russian)

[Volkszählung1979-5] Census of the USSR 1979 on webgeo.ru (Russian)