Polohy
Polohy | ||
Пологи | ||
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Oblast : | Zaporizhia Oblast | |
Rajon : | Polohy Rajon | |
Height : | 102 m | |
Area : | 15.95 km² | |
Residents : | 19,547 (2016) | |
Population density : | 1,226 inhabitants per km² | |
Postcodes : | 70600 | |
Area code : | +380 6165 | |
Geographic location : | 47 ° 29 ' N , 36 ° 15' E | |
KOATUU : | 2324210100 | |
Administrative structure : | 1 city | |
Address: | вул. Горького 24 70600 м. Пологи |
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Website : | http://www.pology.zp.ua/ | |
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Polohy ( Ukrainian Пологи ; Russian Пологи Pologi ) is a Ukrainian city in the Zaporizhia Oblast with 19,500 inhabitants (2016).
The city is a railway junction on the left bank of the Kinska River . It is the administrative and cultural center of the raion of the same name about 100 km southeast of Zaporizhia .
history
Polohy was founded in 1887 under its current name, the Ukrainian name means "birth". 1923 was the village in honor of the heads of government in Ukraine, Vlas Chubar , in Tschubariwku renamed and urban settlement type collected. After Chubar fell out of favor during the Stalin Purges , the settlement got its original name back in 1937 and was given city status in 1938. During the German occupation, Polohy was the capital of the Pologi district within the Reichskommissariat Ukraine .
population
Population development
1939 | 1959 | 1970 | 1979 | 1989 | 2001 | 2005 | 2016 |
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12,944 | 16,490 | 20,048 | 22,873 | 25,336 | 22.206 | 21,103 | 19,547 |
Source: 1939–1970, 1989–2016 :, 1979:
Personalities
- Polina Semjonovna Schemchuschina (1897–1970), Soviet politician and wife of Vyacheslav Molotov
- Alexander Petrovich Rudakov (1910–1966), Soviet politician
- Volodymyr Kosak (* 1959), Ukrainian politician
Rajon
The Polohy Rajon, administered from Polohy, has an area of 1340 km² and a population of 41,827 inhabitants (2012), which corresponds to a population density of 31 inhabitants per km².
Web links
- Topographic map (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Demography of Ukrainian cities on pop-stat.mashke.org
- ↑ City history on the off. Side of the city (Russian)
- ↑ Census of the USSR 1979 ( Memento of May 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) on webgeo.ru