Romodan

Romodan

Ромодан

Romodan

Basic data

Oblast :

Poltava Oblast

Rajon :

Myrhorod district

Height :

no information

Area :

Information is missing

Residents :

3,225 (2004)

Postcodes :

37650

Area code :

+380 5355

Geographic location :

50 ° 0 ′ N , 33 ° 20 ′ E Coordinates: 49 ° 59 ′ 30 ″ N , 33 ° 19 ′ 30 ″ E

KOATUU :

5323255700

Administrative structure :

1 urban-type settlement , 3 villages

Address:

вул. Шевченка 14
37650 смт. Ромодан

Statistical information

Romodan

Romodan ( Ukrainian and Russian Ромодан ) is an urban-type settlement in Myrhorod Raion in the central Ukrainian Poltava Oblast with 3225 inhabitants ( as of December 5, 2001 ), of which 1399 men and 1826 women (766 men per 1000 women). The place, which lies in the transition area between the Poltava plateau in the north-east and the Dnepr lowlands in the south-west, is particularly important as a railway junction : the railway lines Kiev – Poltava – Kharkiv and Kremenchuk - Romny - Bachmatsch meet in this place. It also includes the 3 villages Konjuschewe ( Конюшеве ), Sotnyzke ( Сотницьке ) and Sharkiwschtschyna ( Шарківщина ).

history

The settlement was established in the 1880s at the time the railroad was being built in the area. From March 19 to 21, 1918, the strategically important site was the scene of a battle between Cossack divisions and Bolsheviks . In the last decades the population of the place has decreased.

Population development

1966: 7,500 inhabitants (source: Encyklopedija ukrajinosnawstwa)
1979: 4,566 inhabitants (source: State Statistics Committee of Ukraine)
1989: 4,487 inhabitants (source: State Statistics Committee of Ukraine)
2001: 3,225 inhabitants (source: State Statistics Committee of Ukraine)

Personalities

Romodan is the birthplace of the Soviet writer Mikhail Emmanuilowitsch Kozakow (1897–1954).

Web links

Topographic map (Romodan is on the northern edge of the map) (in Cyrillic script)
Departure map of the train station (in Cyrillic script)