Nyschnja Krynka
Nyschnja Krynka | ||
Нижня Кринка | ||
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Oblast : | Donetsk Oblast | |
Rajon : | Makiyivka District | |
Height : | 124 m | |
Area : | Information is missing | |
Residents : | 13,956 (2011) | |
Postcodes : | 86185 | |
Area code : | +380 6232 | |
Geographic location : | 48 ° 7 ' N , 38 ° 10' E | |
KOATUU : | 1413566500 | |
Administrative structure : | 4 urban-type settlements , 2 villages | |
Mayor : | Tamara Kotowa | |
Address: | вул. Центральна 18 86185 смт. Нижня Кринка |
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Nyschnja Krynka ( Ukrainian Нижня Кринка ; Russian Нижняя Крынка / Nizhnyaja Krynka ) is an urban-type settlement in eastern Ukraine in Donetsk Oblast with about 13,000 inhabitants.
geography
The urban-type settlement is located in the Donets Basin , about 27 kilometers northeast of the Donetsk Oblast Center and 17 kilometers northeast of the city center of Makiyivka , to whose urban district it belongs. The river Krynka flows through the place, to the south extends the Chanschonkow reservoir (Ханжонківське водосховище).
The settlement Rats town Nyschnja Krynka which the administratively Stadtrajon Soviet is assigned within Makiivka nor the settlements include urban type Welyke Orichowe , Krasnyj Oktjabr and Lisne and villages Lypowe (Ukrainian Липове ) and Orichowe (Ukrainian Оріхове ).
history
The settlement was founded in 1778 by the Zaporozhian Cossacks and was named Chanschonkiw-Nyschnjokrynskyj (Ukrainian Ханжонків-Нижньокринський). Coal mining began in the vicinity of the place in the second half of the 19th century, and since 1938 Nyschnja Krynka has been an urban-type settlement. To the northeast of the town center, a branch line of the railway with a train station was opened in 1901, around which a train station settlement developed.
During the war in Ukraine , the place has been occupied by separatists from the Donetsk People's Republic since summer 2014 .
Web links
- Location information (Ukrainian)