Oleniwka (Wolnowacha)

Olenivka
Оленівка
	Olenivka
Basic data
Oblast :	Donetsk Oblast
Rajon :	Wolnovacha district
Height :	216 m
Area :	4.7 km²
Residents :	4,729 (2011)
Population density :	1,006 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes :	85710
Area code :	+380 6244
Geographic location :	47 ° 50 '  N , 37 ° 40'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 49 '53 "  N , 37 ° 39' 36"  E
KOATUU :	1421557100
Administrative structure :	1 urban-type settlement , 4 settlements
Address:	вул. Леніна 11 85710 смт. Оленівка
Statistical information
Olenivka

Oleniwka ( Ukrainian Оленівка ;  Russian Оленовка Olenowka ) is an urban-type settlement in eastern Ukraine in Donetsk Oblast with about 4,500 inhabitants.

View of the station building in the village

The urban-type settlement located in the north of the Rajons Volnovakha , about 27 kilometers northeast of Rajonszentrum Volnovakha and 21 kilometers southwest of Oblastzentrum Donetsk . The N 20 road and the railway line from Donetsk to Mariupol run through the village . Olenivka is a center of food production in the region.

The settlement council of the same name also includes the settlements Malynowe ( Малинове ), Molodishne ( Молодіжне ), Novomykolaivka ( Новомиколаївка ) and Petrivske ( Петрівське ).

The village was created through settlement efforts of the Russian Empire in 1840, the settlers came from the governorates of Kharkov and Poltava . It received urban-type settlement status in 1938. In August 2014 there was fighting in the place during the war in Ukraine . Since then, Olenivka has been in the hands of the separatists of the Donetsk People's Republic .

Web links

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• Location information (Ukrainian)