Schowti Wody

Schowti Wody ( Ukrainian Жо́вті Во́ди ; Russian Жёлтые Воды Scholtyje Wody , English transcription Zhovti Vody , in German "yellow water") is a city with oblast meaning in the center of Ukraine . It is one of the youngest cities in Ukraine and with 46,200 inhabitants (April 1, 2017) the eighth largest city in Dnepropetrovsk Oblast .

The city is part of the agglomeration Kryvyi Rih , one in probably the most important iron ore region of Eastern Europe , the kryvbas located metropolitan region , which in turn to economic region Dnepr counts.

View of the city's main street, named after the Bolshevik Grigory Petrowski

Skyline seen from the Shovta Valley

Zhovti Vody is a center of promotion and further processing of uranium and having one of the three most mines, commercially scandium produce.

geography

Geographical location

Schowti Wody is located in the Eurasian steppe in the historical area of the " Wild Field " on the edge of the Dnieper highlands . The Shovta ( Eng. "The Yellow"), a tributary of the Inhulez , flows through the city, which is administratively located in the west of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast on the border with the Kirovohrad Oblast .

Kiev ~ 380 km Oleksandrija ~ 60 km	Kremenchuk ~ 115 km	Kamjanske ~ 110 km
Kropyvnytskyi ~ 115 km		Dnipro ~ 135 km
Mykolaiv ~ 240 km	Kryvyi Rih ~ 70 km	Zaporizhia ~ 180 km

Neighboring communities

The town surrounding, with about 25 inhabitants / km² sparsely populated Rajons are in the east of Rajon Pjatychatky with communities Bohdano-Nadeschdiwka , Sawro and Marianivka and in the west of belonging to the Oblast Kirovohrad Petrove Raion with the community Kosazke .

relief

The urban area is on one level at a height of 130 m . The Shovta valley is 100 m above sea level and the highest point in the city is 149.6 m high. The lowest point in the city is 60 m above sea level at the bottom of the disused ore mine “Kapital”.

City structure

Old town with Pushkin monument

The municipality is divided into the town of Schowti Wody ( administrative seat ) and the village of Sucha Balka, which has been part of the municipality since 1967 and is located in the northeast of the urban area . There are no settlements in the urban area.

The urban area extends over a length of 7.7 km from north to south and 5.3 km from west to east and covers an area of 3325 ha (33.25 km²). The town center of Schowti Vody has an almost rectangular ground plan, the length of which is 2.4 km from north to south and 3.5 km from east to west. Much of the city's streets are lined with trees, especially apricot trees.

The city center is divided into three parts.

The eastern part of the city is the oldest. It was built in the 1950s. Here you will find the Palace of Culture with the “ Ehrenpark ” surrounding it, the City History Museum, to the south the “Kinderpark” recreational area and a monument in honor of the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin .

Residential houses in the west of the city

The middle part was built in the 1970s to 1980s. Here is the center of the city, in which, among other things, the main shopping street, the "Street of the 50th Anniversary of Komsomol " ( ukr. Вулиця 50-річчя Комсомолу ), the City Hall and the "Institute of Business Strategy" are located. The houses in this urban area are called Khrushchevkas .

The western part, built in the late 1980s and early 1990s, is the youngest part of the city. It is to his largely a bedroom community , but is also home to the permanent market ( Ukr. Базар / bazaar ) of the city.

North of the city center is the commercial and industrial area of the city, which is now in a partially desolate condition due to the closure of mines and industrial plants. The east and southeast of the city are suburban .

Transport infrastructure

Bus station

Within the city there are, in addition to the private transport to public transport , consisting of some bus routes with which you pay 3 UAH can cover a distance in the urban area, and numerous taxis.

Long-distance traffic is handled via the Shovti Vody bus station ( ukr. Автовокзал Жовті Води ) in the north-west of the city. The bus station belongs to the Regional Enterprise of Dnepropetrovsk Bus Stations ( ukr. ПАТ "Дніпропетровське обласне підприємство автобусних станцій" ). Several times a day there are direct connections with coaches to, among others, Kiev , Dnipro, Oleksandrija, Krywyj Rih and Kremenchuk, as well as with small intercity buses, the so-called marshrutkas , to the neighboring towns, for example every hour at a price of 8.39 ₴ to the train station in Pyatychatky to continue your journey by train. 48.351056 33.480194

Schowti Wody has only one freight station in the north of the city (Schowti Wody 2), which is connected to the main line in Pjatychatky via a branch line.

The closest airports are Kryvyi Rih and Dnipro airports . 4 km west of the city, in the municipality of Kosazke, is the former "Schowti Wody airfield" with a 400 m long runway. 48.350659 33.443928

Road network

Entrance sign

Outside of the city, the streets are often uneven, unsecured and marked by potholes. The regional road P 74 runs through the city (until January 1, 2013 territorial road T – 04–18 ), which runs over a length of 121 km from Schyroke via Krywyj Rih, Tscherwone and Bohdano-Nadezhdiwka to Pyatychatky. In addition, the territorial road T-12-10 begins here, which leads through Petrowe , Werbljuschka and Dolynska and ends after 118 km in Ustynivka .

In Schowte , ten kilometers north of the town, located by Ukrainian standards in good condition, runs highway M 04 / E 50 , which in western direction until Znamianka and from there the N 01 on to Kiev leads. In an easterly direction it connects the city with the Dnieper and later with the Donets Basin and Russia .

The city's license plate number since 2004, as in the entire oblast, is : AE

climate

Shovti Vody, like 25% of the Ukrainian territory, is located in the vegetation and climatic zone of the steppe , in which there is a moderate continental climate with mild winters and warm (sometimes hot) summers.

"Ehrenpark" in January

The average annual temperature is 8.5 ° C. The coldest month is January with -5.5 ° C, the warmest month is July with 21.3 ° C.

The annual average of rainy days is 125, the number of thunderstorm days is 22, the number of days with hail is 5 and it snows on 53 days as an annual average.

The highest wind speed is in January and February, the lowest wind speed is in summer.

The annual average humidity is 73.9%, whereby it can fluctuate between Ø 61% in August and Ø 89% in December.

Climate table

Monthly Climatic Data for Schowti Wody

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Max. Temperature ( ° C )	−2	−1	6th	15th	22nd	25th	27	27	21st	13	6th	1	O	13.4
Min. Temperature (° C)	−7	−7	−2	4th	9	13	16	14th	9	4th	-1	−4	O	4.1
Temperature (° C)	−5.5	−4.1	0.8	9.4	16.0	19.6	21.3	20.6	15.4	8.4	2.5	−2.1	O	8.6

Precipitation ( mm )	27	24	21st	33	27	45	33	36	24	33	39	33	Σ	375

Rainy days ( d )	12	11	10	11	10	12	9	7th	9	7th	13	14th	Σ	125

Humidity ( % )	86	84	81	68	62	64	64	61	66	76	86	89	O	73.9

Source: Climatic data - Schowti Wody

Time zone

The city is, like all of Ukraine, in the Eastern European time zone . This means that the clocks are two hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) and one hour ahead of the Central European Time in Germany .

geology

Headframe of the "Nowa" ore mine

Shovti Vody is geologically located in the central part of the Ukrainian shield at the transition from the Dnieper highlands to the Black Sea Depression in the north of the Krywbass with rock layers that contain rich iron ore deposits. These layers are folded north-south. In the only remaining mine in the city (Nowaja-Glubokaja) iron ore is mined, which also contains magnetite and the extremely rare scandium, a rare earth metal that is produced here during the processing of uranium-containing ores . Of the 2 tons of worldwide annual scandium consumption (as of 2001), 400 kg (20%) come from Schowti Wody. In addition, deposits of molybdenum have been discovered, but are not yet used.

The soils are very fertile black earth soils, which are among the most productive soils in the world.

Mining consequences

Old ore and uranium mine "Capital"

The legacies of uranium mining lead to a long-term threat to the population and the environment through increased radiation exposure . The concentration of radon in residential buildings is significantly higher, probably because of the tailings that are deposited around the city and the low- level radioactive waste from the uranium mines that was used in the construction of the old town. The drinking water also has increased radiation levels. Independent radiation measurements partially showed radiation exposure whose values were over 100 times the natural radiation dose and are therefore comparable with values from the evacuated Chernobyl exclusion zone .

Recognition of the full extent and effects of pollution is slow to gain acceptance. In 2003 the government drew up an action plan for the "radioactive and social protection of the population of Schowti Wody", which provided for extensive restoration of environmental damage and the provision of new apartments, better food and better medical and social care. However, due to political instability and a lack of money, little has been achieved since then, apart from the radon measurements carried out in numerous houses in the city.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) recommends in a report from 2006 that the tailings at Schowti Wody be rehabilitated.

history

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Origins

A Scythian Kurgan (burial mound) within the urban area suggests an early Scythian settlement in ancient times.

Battle of Schowti Vody; Juliusz Kossak 1855

The area of Schowti Vody became famous through the battle of Schowti Vody and the resulting victory of the Ukrainian Zaporozhian Cossacks under Bohdan Khmelnyzkyj over the Polish-Lithuanian troops under Stefan Potocki at the beginning of the Khmelnytskyi uprising on May 16, 1648.

The first settlers in the Shovta valley were fleeing farmers, called Cossacks , who fished, hunted and built the first shelters here. According to documents from 1680, there was a first farm on the banks of the Shovta, founded by Zaporozhian Cossacks, in the middle of the 17th century, from which the later village of Shovte emerged . By 1740 several farms with more than 200 inhabitants had been built on the Schowta, who lived from agriculture and cattle breeding.

Map of the Ujesd Alexandrija. The current city of Schowti Vody lies in the east on the border river Schowta

At that time, today's urban area was on the edge of the right bank of the Ukraine and was part of the New Russia province of the Russian Empire from 1765 . From 1805 to 1920 the Shovta formed the border river between the Ujesd Alexandrija of the Cherson Governorate and the Ujesd Verkhnedneprovsk of the Yekaterinoslav Governorate , so that the current center west of the river belonged to the Cherson Governorate and the part of the urban area to the east of the river belonged to the Jekaterinoslav Governorate.

Shovta Reka

At the end of the 19th century iron ore was found in the area of the village and in 1895 the settlement Shovta Reka (in German "Yellow River"; ukr. Жовта Ріка ) was established. In 1901 the ore mines began to operate commercially. The workers in the ore mines were basically seasonal workers from the neighboring provinces and villages, the number of which was heavily dependent on the demand for iron ore. In 1904 there were around 1,000 workers, reduced to 600 by 1912, only to exceed 1,000 in the following year. Until a branch line of the Katharinenbahn was relocated to the settlement and connected it with the main line in Pjatychatky, the mined ore was transported in carts to the Pitschuhino train station ( ukr. Пічугіно ) in the settlement Pytschuhyne near Krywyj Rih. In 1905 the first elementary school was founded. There were several strikes due to the poor living conditions and the low safety standards in the mines in the revolutionary years 1904–1907.

During the period of the Ukrainian People's Republic and the Hetmanate during the turmoil of the Russian Civil War from 1918 to 1920, ore mining was stopped, whereupon the drainage pumps failed and the mines were flooded . The resumption of mining began after the establishment of Soviet power and the rehabilitation of the mines in 1924. In the years 1932 and 1933 was the place as well as the entire territory of the Ukrainian SSR , the Holodomor , one by the forced collectivization and dekulakization the Stalinist regime largely caused Famine , affected. A corresponding memorial stone has been commemorating this tragedy since 2003 near the “Palace of Culture”. The industrialization of the Soviet Union also led to the further expansion of the ore mines and the construction of the first industrial plants in Shovta Reka.

German-Soviet War

Dnepr offensive July to December 1943

At the beginning of the German-Soviet War , the settlement had 6,500 inhabitants and 25 streets. Just three weeks after the attack on the Soviet Union and five days after the Kesselschlacht near the city of Uman , 250 km (as the crow flies ) to the west , the settlement was occupied by the Army Group South of the German Wehrmacht on August 13, 1941 and part of the Pjatichatka district within the general district Dnepropetrovsk in the Reichskommissariat Ukraine . Gebietskommissar of the district was Ernst Duschön .

During the occupation of the village there was an anti-fascist underground group , the majority of whose members were executed as partisans in 1942 . The responsible SS and police leader Georg-Henning Graf von Bassewitz-Behr was handed over to the Soviet authorities in 1947 and sentenced to 25 years of forced labor. He died two years later in a labor camp near the eastern Siberian city of Magadan .

In the course of the Pjatychatska offensive, an integral military operation of the second phase of the Dnepr offensive , it was recaptured on October 20, 1943 by troops of the 92nd Guards Rifle Division, the 41st Guards Tank Brigade and the 10th Guards Airborne Division as part of it the steppe front under the command of General Ivan Konev . The village was then right on the front until the beginning of 1944 , as the further advance of the Red Army to Krywbass failed due to bitter German resistance.

post war period

The former Lenin Square, today Freedom Square, with the former " Mir " movie theater

At the beginning of the 1950s, uranium ore was found in magnetite deposits within the urban area, which was commercially mined from 1951 due to the Soviet atomic bomb project and the necessary establishment of a nuclear industry and a short time later also processed on site. As a result, the local industry developed, which led to a rapid population increase and the expansion of the urban infrastructure (including two hospitals, twelve schools, thirteen kindergartens, numerous libraries, two cinemas, a sports stadium that was inaugurated on May 2, 1956 with 11,000 spectator seats, one Sports hall with indoor swimming pool etc.).

Schowti Wody

historical Museum

On May 22, 1957, the settlement was declared an independent city by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet and renamed Schowti Vody. In the same year the "Palace of Culture" was built. At the end of 1958, the corrective labor camp colony No. 0302 (today's penal colony No. 26) was built about 700 m east of the freight station on an area of almost 15 hectares , a Lenin monument was inaugurated in 1967 and the city's historical museum was opened in 1985 .

Due to its importance for the mining and processing of uranium, Schowti Vody was a closed city in Soviet times . This had a positive effect on the local population insofar as consumer goods and food were available in higher numbers than in the surrounding regions. There were no negative effects on the population, such as mobility restrictions or controls on the access roads to the city, but an automatic telephone connection into and out of the city was not possible, but was switched manually after checking. Foreigners were not allowed to enter the city.

The collapse of the Soviet Union led to Ukraine's independence in 1991 . After the collapse of real socialism , as a result of the post-communist system transformation , the resulting restructuring from the central administration economy to a market economy , and then again due to the global financial crisis from 2007 onwards , severe economic problems occurred and, as a result, production declines and factories in the city.

As a result of the change of government after the turmoil of the Euromaidan , the Lenin Monument on Lenin Square, which was renamed Freedom Square, was removed from its base with a crane on February 26, 2014 and moved to the city's historical museum.

Attractions

Equestrian statue of the Heroes of the War of Liberation of the Ukrainian People

The two greatest sights of the city, the "Palace of Culture" and the monument "of the three horses", as the equestrian statue of the hero of the war of liberation of the Ukrainian people is popularly called, are, along with numerous other monuments, in the central park of the city. the " Ehrenpark ".

The city's landmark is the 11.5-meter-high "Equestrian Statue of the Heroes of the War of Liberation of the Ukrainian People 1648–1654", a group of sculptures depicting the three Cossacks Maksym Krywonis , Bohdan Chmelnyzkyj and Ivan Bohun who were involved in the Khmelnyzky uprising against the aristocratic republic of Poland -Lithuania, the first battle of which was fought at Shovti Vody.

Palace of Culture

Also known the "Palace of Culture" is ( Ukr. Культури Палац and rus. Дворец культуры ) officially Center for the Performing Folk Art and Leisure ( Ukr. Центр народної творчості культури й дозвілля ) is the most honorary Park located central cultural center Zhovti Vody. The palace opened on November 6, 1957, the eve of the 40th anniversary of the October Revolution. The Moscow architect Alexei Mikailowitsch Alexandrov ( Russian Александров, Алексей Миколайович ) is an honored architect of the RSFSR and winner of the State Prize of the Soviet Union . The building is one of the architectural monuments of Dnepropetrovsk Oblast. There are various groups and events, including a theater, the “Youth” circus, the “Sunrise / Dawn” dance group ( Ukrainian Світанок ), the “Rainbow” choir, a brass band, the “Taube” folklore ensemble and a chamber orchestra. The concert hall has 720 seats, there is also a 50-seat festival and banquet hall and a mirrored dance hall.

Monuments (selection)

Monument GAZ-AA

Monument to the GAZ-AA truck in the east of the city
Lenin monument in front of the "Palace of Culture"
Monument 55 years of uranium mining in Schowti Vody
Monument in front of the Scythian Kurgan
Monument to the hetman Bogdan Khmelnytskyi at the southern end of Khmelnytskyi Street
Monument to Pushkin at the northern end of Khmelnytskyi Street

as well as others in the " Ehrenpark "

population

Population development

Mainly due to the decline in the birth rate, the city lost almost 25% of its population between 1989 and 2012, which corresponds to an annual population decrease of 1.22%. The migration balance has been positive again since 2009. Exact figures on birth and emigration rates can be found in the tables.

Sources: 1913:; 1939:; 1959:; 1970:; 1979:; 1989:; 1992-2005 :; 2010:; 2015: 2017;

Tables birth rate and migration in Schowti Wody

natural population growth in Schowdi Wody
year	Births	Deaths	natural growth
2007	470	867	-397
2008	477	959	-482
2009	477	860	-383
2010	462	871	-409
2011	446	844	-398
2012	512	783	-271
2013	440	801	-361
total Acquisition period	3284	5985	-2701

Population movement in Zhovdi Vody
	Oblast internal			External oblast			total
year	Number of arrivals	Number of exits	growth	Number of arrivals	Number of exits	growth	growth
2007	465	574	−109	488	456	32	-77
2008	435	432	3	371	449	−78	-75
2009	372	330	42	354	383	−29	13
2010	384	400	−16	376	351	25th	9
2011	418	382	36	391	364	27	63
2012	476	418	58	423	383	40	98
2013	486	378	108	425	394	31	139
Total recording period	2550	2536	14th	2403	2386	17th	31

Nationalities, language and writing

According to the 2001 census in Ukraine, the population of the city is composed of the following ethnic groups: The majority (80.1%) of the population are Ukrainians , 16.7% of the residents are of Russian origin and 0.6% are Belarusian Nationality. There are also minorities of Armenians , Tatars , Moldovans and other nationalities.

The population of Schowti Wody mostly speaks two East Slavic languages - both the official language Ukrainian and the Russian language , which is often used as a colloquial language (and since August 17, 2012 as the regional official language) . There is also a mixed form of both languages that is only used orally, the surschyk . The media is mixed in Russian and Ukrainian.

The Cyrillic alphabet is used as the only official language in Ukraine .

Population after nationality			native language
National and linguistic composition
Population after nationality			according to nationality	Ukrainian language	Russian language	other languages
1	Ukrainians	45,941	43,200	-	2678	63
2	Russians	9,551	8780	742	-	29
3	Belarusians	333	68	85	180	0
4th	Armenians	132	66	85	180	0
5	Tatars	64	13	10	40	1
6th	Moldovans	62	19th	20th	22nd	1
7th	other	1,246	59	117	227	843
Total:		57,329	52.205	989	3,198	937
Data from 2001; Source:

Sacred buildings of the city (selection)

Religions

The following Christian denominations and religious faith communities are represented in Schowti Wody :

two Orthodox parishes of the Moscow Patriarchate ; belong to the Krivoy Rog-Nikopol eparchy , deanery Schowti Vody ( Жовтоводське благочиння ) with a total of 1,400 members
A parish of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine , Dnipropetrovsk Eparchy ( ukr. Дніпропетровська єпархія УПЦ КП ), Deanery Shovti Vody with a total of 450 members
four Evangelical Free Churches with a total of 625 members
the Jehovah's Witnesses with 100 members
the Seventh-day Adventist Church with 100 members
as well as a Jewish community

The city lies within the Roman Catholic diocese of Odessa-Simferopol , but currently (as of 2014) there is no community of this denomination in the city.

Medical institutions

There is a maternity hospital, a children's hospital and a hospital for inpatient admission in the city. There are also two medical centers (also called hospitals) for the outpatient treatment of patients, as well as a few private medical practices and numerous pharmacies. The medical facilities do not correspond to the current Central European standard of medical care.

education

Economic Institute "Strategy"

Schowti Vody is due to the regional urban economic institute "Strategy" ( ukr. Інститут підприємництва "Стратегія" , often English Institute of Business "strategy" ) a university town. The university, founded in 1992, has over 1,600 students and 200 lecturers. In addition, the city is a university location with four resident universities such as a branch of the " Pedagogical Institute Krywyj Rih " ( ukr. Жовотоводське училище Криворізьского державного державного державного педагегогernітуруска педагогогernітурусту .

Personalities

The following famous personalities are sons or daughters of the city:

Volodymyr Abramov (* 1962), university professor and mayor
Wassylyj Kolomoez (1918–1986), officer in the Soviet Army and Hero of the Soviet Union
Inna Ohniwez (* 1962), diplomat
Jewhen Pitschkur (* 1979), soccer player
Anastasija Polyanskaya (* 1986), triathlete
Oleksij Schuravko (* 1974), politician
Oleksandr Sitkowskyj (* 1978), marathon runner
Wassyl Tarassenko (* 1961), mayor
Inna Tutukina , b. Zyhanok (* 1986), triathlete

Sports

Entrance to the "Awanhard Stadium"

The city has a long sporting tradition. Athletes from Shovti Vody achieved numerous sporting successes in Ukrainian and international competitions. Every seventh citizen is involved in sports in one of the city's 24 sports clubs. Sports facilities there are in the city including the sports and leisure complex "Yuvileiny", two children and youth sport schools, twelve sports fields, the 11,000-seat "Avanhard Stadium" ( Ukr. Авангард стадіон ; rus. Авангард стадион / Avangard Stadium ), a swimming pool, 22 sports halls and a tennis court built in 2003.

Soccer

The football club "Avanthard Schowti Vody" ( Russian: Авангард Жёлтые Воды ) founded in 1959 was very successful in the Ukraine in the 1960s. In 1961 he finished third in the Ukrainian-Soviet championship, in 1965 the club was second in this competition and in 1966 he won the championship. In 1970 the team was disbanded and revived in 2010.

Economy

The largest employer in the city is the State Enterprise " VostGOK ", the largest uranium ore mining and processing company in Ukraine, whose headquarters are located on site. The company produces 70% of the city's industrial products and employs 3800 people in the city.

The company produced almost 1,000 tons of U ₃ O ₈ in Schowti Wody in 2007 . The company needs sulfuric acid to digest the uranium ore and for this purpose built a plant in the north of the city in the early 1980s that produces large quantities of sulfuric acid. Some of the uranium oxide is processed further in the company's own plant in Smoline, 215 km to the west .

The 100% state-owned company reports to the Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry of Ukraine.

There is also an iron ore mining company, a manufacturing plant specializing in the manufacture of electronic devices, Tetra JSC (Tetra JSC, ukr. ЗАТ “Тетра” ), a company for the production of radiation control devices, founded in 1995 .

Furthermore, since 1975 there has been a plant for the production of artificial fur and products made from it, the “ Artificial Fur Factory” in which “ Mischa ”, the mascot of the 1980 Summer Olympics , was also produced. The company is the leader in the Ukraine with a production of up to 4 million m² of artificial fur.

In addition, there is a district heating - heating plant , a water plant that the city with drinking water from 18 km away, for Iskriwka reservoir supplies angestautem Inhulets River, a large bakery, eleven bank branches and a hotel in a convenient and a hotel in the medium price range.

Weekly market

retail trade

In Schowti Wody there are almost 500 retail and service companies as well as a permanent market , the so-called bazaar in the west and a weekly market in the northern center of the city. Subsistence farming is also practiced in the city , as wages are sometimes barely enough to cover the cost of living and the city has a high unemployment rate.

media

Newspaper "Event" ( Russian Событие / Sobytije ), in Russian

Newspaper «Der Arbeitsruhm» ( Russian. Трудовая слава / Ukrain . Trudowaja slawa ), in Russian
Newspaper «Schowti Wody Nachrichten» ( ukr. Жовтоводські Вісті / Schowtowodski Wisti ), in Ukrainian
online newspaper «There is an opinion» ( ukr. Имеется мнение / Imeietsja mnenije ), in Russian
online newspaper «Shovti Vody - Uranium Capital of Ukraine», in Russian

politics

Until 2016, the city council of Shovti Vody was housed in a building on a main street named after the Russian revolutionary Grigory Ivanovich Petrovsky , one of the organizers of the Holodomor , 33 Petrovsky Street (Ukrainian вул. Петровського ) 33 in the city center.

The City Council ( Міська рада ) of Shovti Vody consists of 42 people and is the local representative body in accordance with the Constitution and the Law of Ukraine “On Local Self-Government in Ukraine”. The city council, elected for five years, elects the secretary of the city council and forms the board of the city council from among its members. Its meetings are presided over by the mayor, who is also elected for a five-year term by direct, general, free and secret ballot by the city's citizens.

From March 26, 2006 to October 31, 2010, Vasyl Fedorowytsch Holub from the Socialist Party of Ukraine was mayor of the city, followed by Anatoly Volodymyrowytsch Kuzmenko from the Party of Regions (PR) at the head of the city council. On February 26, 2014 he resigned as a party colleague of the President of Ukraine Yanukovych , who had been overthrown as a result of the Euromaidan , and the city council was dissolved.

On May 25, 2014, together with the presidential election , the mayoral election took place with a voter turnout of 56%, with Vasyl Weniaminowytsch Tarassenko ( Василь Веніамінович Тарасенко ), who was born on February 3, 1961 in Shovti Vody, prevailed. His inauguration as mayor of the city took place on June 4, 2014.

Shovti Vody belongs to the Ukrainian constituency number 34 and voted as follows in the parliamentary elections on October 26, 2014:

Election result of the parliamentary elections in Ukraine 2014 in Shovti Vody
Political party	List votes	Share of votes%
Opposition block (Oposyzijnyj blok)	5021	25.73
Block Petro Poroshenko (Blok Petra Poroshenka)	3842	19.69
Popular Front (Narodnyj front)	2501	12.82
Association " Self-Help " (Objednannja «Samopomitsch»)	1512	7.75
Radical Party of Oleh Lyaschko (Radykalna Partija Oleha Lyaschka)	1507	7.72
Communist Party of Ukraine (Komunistytschna partija Ukrajiny)	1149	5.89
All-Ukrainian "Fatherland" Association (Vseukrajinske objednannja "Batkivshchyna")	909	4.66
All-Ukrainian Association "Freedom" (Vseukrajinske objednannja "Swoboda")	476	2.44
Strong Ukraine (Sylna Ukrajina)	458	2.35
Civil position (Anatolij Hryzenko) (Hromadjanska posyzija (Anatolij Hryzenko))	441	2.26
Right Sector (Prawyj Sector)	325	1.67
proof

Other parties together won less than 1 percent of the votes cast. The turnout was 47 percent. The election went without incident.

After the local elections in Ukraine in 2015 , Volodymyr Abramov ( Володимир Васильович Абрамов ), candidate of the new Ukrainian party “UKROP”, became the new mayor of the city on October 25, 2015 with 37.9% of the vote. The turnout was 37%.

Symbolism of the city

The crest

Coat of arms in Soviet times

current coat of arms

Description of the coat of arms : In the golden field of the coat of arms a piece of uranium ore, which is encircled by electrons, is shown in black in a stylized form. The field symbolizes mining and the nuclear industry as the basis for the city. The lower part of the coat of arms is separated from the middle by a black, wavy line, which symbolizes the Shovta that flows through the city.

In the lower part, two crossed, golden swords are shown on an azure background. They symbolize the victory of the battle of Shovti Vody that took place near the city .

The yellow and blue background of the coat of arms symbolizes the colors of the flag of Ukraine . The coat of arms is crowned by a wall crown as a symbol of the status as a city.

The flag

^?^?City flag

The city flag is the winning design of a competition that took place in March 2005 and comes from Anatoly Shevchenko.

The background of the flag is a rectangle divided diagonally into a red and a blue field. The red field is a symbol of the development of the city and its industry during the Soviet era. In this, symbolically shown in golden color, an atom in the form of a piece of uranium ore with orbiting electrons, which symbolizes the mining and processing of uranium ore.

The blue field is a symbol of the greatness and beauty of the country and its history. In the field two crossed silver swords, set off below by a wavy line, a yellow stripe. This symbolizes the victory of the Battle of Schowti Vody on the Shovta . The yellow and blue background colors of the field symbolize the colors of the flag of the independent Ukraine.

Holidays and anniversaries

Badge of the Schowdi Wody U-310

"City Day" is celebrated as a public holiday on the last Sunday in August. Memorable events of the city are:

The "Victory Day" in memory of Bohdan Khmelnyzkyj's victory over the Polish nobility in 1648 is celebrated on May 16.
October 20th is celebrated as the "day of liberation" from the Nazi invaders in 1943.

Others

Until June 18, 2004, a minesweeper of the Ukrainian Navy , the Shovty Vody U310 (today's Tschernihiw U310 ) carried the name of the city.

Web links

Commons : Schowti Wody - collection of images

Wikivoyage: Schowti Wody - travel guide

Description of the place on the website of the History of Cities and Villages of the Ukrainian SSR (Ukrainian)
Shovti Vody Tourist Association (Russian)
Side of the geography and climate of the city (English)
The shining city of Shovti Vody. News for children on news4kids.de, October 14, 2013

Remarks

↑ The Russian-language Wikipedia has an article on the Pjatychatska offensive under Пятихатская операция

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Information on the population in the Dnepropetrovsk Oblast on April 1, 2017. In: Statistical Office of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast . Retrieved June 14, 2017 (Ukrainian, original title: Чисельність населення (за оцінкою) на 1 квітня 2017 року)).

↑ City Postcodes on geopostcodes.com.

↑ City portrait on rada.info , accessed on January 26, 2015

↑ uk: Криворізька агломерація on the ukrain. Wikipedia.

↑ Scandium: Characteristics, Origin and Applications on goarticles.com (English)

↑ Scandium, a Rare Earth that's Not Really a Rare Earth? ( Memento of the original from February 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on hardassetsinvestor.com (English) @1@ 2

↑ topographic map Schowti Vody on maps.vlasenko.net (Russian)

↑ Charter of the Territorial Municipality of Shovti Vody, Chapter 1, Article 2, Item 6

↑ Departure times from Shovti Vody bus station on the website of the “Regional Company of Dnepropetrovsk Bus Stations” , accessed on January 24, 2015.

↑ Shovti Vody bus station (Russian)

↑ Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on April 18, 2012 Kiev № 301 On Approval of the List of Public Roads of National Importance (Ukrainian)

↑ Ukrainian Wikipedia uk: Територіальні автомобільні дороги Territorial Roads (Ukrainian)

↑ ^a ^b Climate data ( memento of the original from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on sunmap.eu. @1@ 2

↑ ^a ^b Climate data on worldweatheronline.com.

↑ Climate of Ukraine ( Memento of the original from March 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on agritour.com.ua. @1@ 2

↑ Mineral Info ( Memento of the original from October 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (French) @1@ 2

↑ Raw material deposits on mnenie.dp.ua, accessed on April 6, 2013 (Russian)

↑ Radiation characteristics of Dnepropetrovsk region.

↑ Radionuclides in the Environment ff Aquatic Forum 2004, 25-29 October, Monaco Page 208: International Conference on Isotopes in Environmental Studies.

↑ ARTE JOURNAL ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - FEBRUARY 17, 2011. @1@ 2

↑ Report by the Russian broadcaster TVC on www.tvc.ru (Russian)

↑ Contamination of Inhulez and its tributaries (Ukrainian)

↑ Video planet e: The Radiant City (July 14, 2013, 2:45 p.m., 28:12 min.) In the ZDFmediathek , accessed on February 9, 2014.

↑ Video ZDFinfo: Die Uranstadt (August 8, 2013, 12:00 noon, 43:03 min.) In the ZDFmediathek , accessed on February 9, 2014.

↑ ^a ^b Article “Dunkles Element” on walrusmagazine.com ( Memento of the original from December 1, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) @1@ 2

↑ Radon measurements in the Schowti Wody-Nachrichten of October 10, 2012 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Ukrainian)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / zhvisti.org.ua

↑ RADIOLOGICAL CONDITIONS IN THE DNIEPER RIVER BASIN Assessment by an international expert team and recommendations for an action plan - VIENNA, 2006 (PDF) page 18ff (English)

↑ Charter of the territorial municipality Shovti Vody, chapter 1, article 2, point 2

↑ Battle of Schowti Wody on kismeta.com (English)

↑ Schowti Wody in the course of history ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF) on the city's official website, accessed on November 23, 2014. @1@ 2

↑ ^a ^b ^c City History of Shovti Vody in the History of Cities and Villages of the Ukrainian SSR (Ukrainian)

↑ Pjatichatka district on territorial.de.

^ Himmler's husband in Hamburg Online version of the text by Tino Jacobs.

↑ Prison No. 26, Schowti Wody

↑ Historical Museum of Schowti Vody.

↑ ^a ^b History of the city on gorod.dp.ua (Ukrainian)

^ Official website of the city of Shovti Vody.

↑ History and culture ( Memento of the original from March 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on ADM.dp.ua. @1@ 2

↑ Video of the fall of the monument in Schowti Vody , accessed on February 27, 2014.

^ Center for Performing Folk Art and Leisure Time Schowti Wody. In: Vostgok uranium plant. Retrieved September 20, 2014 (including, original title: Центр народної творчості культури і дозвілля ДП СхідГЗК).

↑ Schowti Wody History and Modernity. In: zhvbook.com. Retrieved September 20, 2014 (Russian, original title: Город Желтые Воды. История и наше время.).

↑ ^a ^b Demography of Ukrainian cities on pop-stat.mashke.org

↑ 1959 Census of the USSR on webgeo.ru (Russian)

↑ 1970 Census of the USSR on webgeo.ru (Russian)

↑ Census of the USSR 1979 on webgeo.ru (Russian)

↑ 1989 Census of the USSR on demoscope.ru (Russian)

↑ Statistical Office of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast 2010 on dneprstat.gov.ua (Ukrainian)

↑ Information on the population in the Dnepropetrovsk Oblast in 2015. In: Statistical Office of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast . Retrieved June 8, 2015 (Ukrainian, original title: Чисельність населення На 1 квітня 2015 року ).

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↑ 2001 census (Ukrainian)

↑ regional language (Russian)

↑ Рада признала недействительным закон об официальном двуязычии в регионах , AIF on February 23, 2014.

↑ 2001 Ukraine census (Ukrainian)

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↑ Official website of the city of Shovti Vody (Ukrainian)

↑ Regional city university 'Institute of Business "Strategy"' on osvita.com.ua (Ukrainian)

↑ Universities in Schowti Wody on osvita.com.ua (Ukrainian)

↑ Sport in Schowti Wody ( Memento from May 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on adm.dp.ua (English)

↑ Avantgarde Schowti Wody (Russian)

^ Football in Schowti Wody on football.sport.ua.

↑ Vostgok uranium plant (Ukrainian)

↑ DNIPROPETROVS'K REGIONAL STATE ADMINISTRATION ( Memento from May 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Schowti Wody- Industrie, accessed on November 16, 2014.

↑ EURATOM Supply Agency ANNUAL REPORT 2011 (English; PDF; 2.3 MB)

↑ VostGOK Company Links (English)

↑ Zhovti Vody City, Ukraine (English)

↑ Schowti Vody waterworks (Ukrainian)

↑ ^a ^b official site of the city / company (Ukrainian)

↑ Why is water in Shovti Vody twice as expensive as in Dnepropetrovsk? on 34 телеканал, accessed September 27, 2014 (Russian)

^ Newspaper «Schowti Vody News» (Ukrainian)

↑ online newspaper «There is an opinion» (Russian)

^ Website of the newspaper

↑ Ukraine: Good bye Lenin? in Deutsche Welle on July 9, 2009; Retrieved December 10, 2014.

↑ Management structure of the city council (Ukrainian)

^ Resignation of Mayor Schowti Vody , accessed on February 27, 2014 (Ukrainian)

↑ The new mayor is sworn in on zhvucu.dp.ua (Ukrainian)

↑ Biography of the mayor ( memento of the original dated November 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the official site of the city @1@ 2

↑ ^a ^b Result of the 2014 parliamentary election , accessed on November 16, 2014.

↑ Internet newspaper Schowti Wody of October 26, 2015, accessed on January 19, 2016

↑ The results of the local elections in the newspaper Schowti Wody News on October 26, 2015, accessed on January 19, 2016

↑ Coat of arms of the city on geraldika.ru.

^ Flag of the city on the official site of Shovti Vody.

↑ Charter of the territorial municipality of Schowti Vody, Chapter 1, Article 4, Point 1 and 2

[Pjatychatska-Offensive-34] The Russian-language Wikipedia has an article on the Pjatychatska offensive under Пятихатская операция

[Demographische_Informationen_2017-1] Information on the population in the Dnepropetrovsk Oblast on April 1, 2017. In: Statistical Office of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast . Retrieved June 14, 2017 (Ukrainian, original title: Чисельність населення (за оцінкою) на 1 квітня 2017 року)).

[PLZ-2] City Postcodes on geopostcodes.com.

[3] City portrait on rada.info , accessed on January 26, 2015

[Kryworiska_Agglomeration-4] uk: Криворізька агломерація on the ukrain. Wikipedia.

[Scandium-5] Scandium: Characteristics, Origin and Applications on goarticles.com (English)