Oster (city)

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Easter
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Coat of arms of Oster
Oster (Ukraine)
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Basic data
Oblast : Chernihiv Oblast
Rajon : Koselets district
Height : 111 m
Area : 14.13 km²
Residents : 6,092 (2017)
Population density : 431 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes : 17044-17045
Area code : +380 4646
Geographic location : 50 ° 57 '  N , 30 ° 52'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 56 '55 "  N , 30 ° 52' 28"  E
KOATUU : 7422010400
Administrative structure : 1 city, 3 villages
Address: вул. Незалежності 21
17044 м. Остер
Website : City council website
Statistical information
Easter (Chernihiv Oblast)
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Oster ( Ukrainian Остер ; Russian Остёр Ostjor ) is a city in the southwest of the Ukrainian Chernihiv Oblast with about 6100 inhabitants.

Resurrection Church in Oster
Sankt Michael Church in Oster Architectural monument from the 11th century

geography

The city is located 111  m above sea level at the confluence of the Oster River with the Desna River in the west of the Koselets district, 18 km west of the Koselets district , 85 km south of the Chernihiv oblast center and 75 km north of the Ukrainian capital Kiev . For the township include, in addition to the city that three villages Beremyzke ( Беремицьке ) Ljubetschanyniw ( Любечанинів ) and Poliske ( Поліське ).

In Oster, the territorial road T – 10–08 crosses with the T – 25–35 , which leads over the Desna.

history

Oster was founded in 1098 by Vladimir Monomakh as a fortress of the Kievan Rus . The fortress was destroyed in 1152 and rebuilt in 1195. In 1240 the village was destroyed again by Mongol hordes during the Mongol invasion of the Rus . At the beginning of the 14th century a new settlement emerged, which came under the control of the Lithuanian principality in 1356 . In 1662 Ostro received Magdeburg city rights . In 1782 Oster became the district seat of the Kiev province and in 1803 the district seat of the Chernigov governorate . In 1861 there were 498 households in the city with a total of 4846 inhabitants.

Population development

Source: 1861, 1897-2017

sons and daughters of the town

  • Mychajlo Ptucha (1884–1961), Ukrainian-Soviet statistician, demographer and economist

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Cities and Settlements of Ukraine on pop-stat.mashke.org ; accessed on May 29, 2018
  2. ↑ a b City history of Easter in the history of the cities and villages of the Ukrainian SSR ; accessed on May 29, 2018 (Ukrainian)