Schpola

Schpola
Шпола
	Schpola
Basic data
Oblast :	Cherkasy Oblast
Rajon :	Shpola district
Height :	94 m
Area :	61.29 km²
Residents :	17,549 (2014)
Population density :	286 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes :	20600
Area code :	+380 4741
Geographic location :	49 ° 0 ′  N , 31 ° 24 ′  E Coordinates: 49 ° 0 ′ 28 "  N , 31 ° 24 ′ 7"  E
KOATUU :	7125750100
Administrative structure :	1 city
Address:	вул. Пролетарська 59 20 600 м. Шпола
Website :	http://www.shpola.ck.ua/
Statistical information
Schpola

Shpola ( Ukrainian and Russian Шпола ) is a city with 17,500 inhabitants (2014) in the center of Ukraine . It is located on the Shpolka (Ukrainian Шполка ), a 53 km long tributary of the Hnylyj Tikytsch in the Cherkasy Oblast 69 kilometers southwest of the Oblast capital Cherkassy .

Taras Shevchenko monument in Shpola

The village is the geographical center of today's Ukraine. It was mentioned in writing for the first time in 1594 and was granted city status in 1938. The large Jewish majority in the village was almost completely destroyed during the Second World War .

Personalities

• Iwan Kulik (1897–1937), Ukrainian-Soviet writer, literary critic and party official
• Itzik Feffer (1900–1952), Yiddish poet
• Oleksij Kolomijtschenko (1898–1974), ENT doctor and university professor
• Ihor Rossochowatskyj (1929–2015), Ukrainian science fiction writer
• David Janowitsch Tscherkassky (1932–2018), Soviet-Ukrainian animator, director and screenwriter
• Olexander Tkachenko (* 1939), Ukrainian politician

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population figures on pop-stat.mashke.org