Starobilsk

Starobilsk
Старобільськ
	Starobilsk
Basic data
Oblast :	Luhansk Oblast
Rajon :	Starobilsk Raion
Height :	63 m
Area :	13.32 km²
Residents :	17,453 (2016)
Population density :	1,310 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes :	92700
Area code :	+380 6461
Geographic location :	49 ° 17 '  N , 38 ° 55'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 16 '39 "  N , 38 ° 55' 27"  E
KOATUU :	4425110100
Administrative structure :	1 city
Mayor :	Olexandr Mykolaovych
Address:	вул. Комунарів 36 92 700 м. Старобільськ
Statistical information
Starobilsk

Starobilsk (Ukrainian Старобільськ - until 1933 Старобільське / Starobilske; Russian Старобельск / Starobelsk ) is an eastern Ukrainian city ​​in Luhansk Oblast, 85 km northwest of Luhansk on the Ajdar River. The city has about 17,500 inhabitants (2016) and is the administrative center of Starobilsk Raion .

Starobilsk monastery

history

The Sloboda Belski / Бельский was officially founded in 1686 and renamed Staraja Belaja (Старая Белая) in 1730 . In 1797 it was renamed to the current name Starobelsk (Старобельск) or Ukrainian Starobilsk (e). In the 19th century the city was the administrative center of Ujesd Starobilsk in the Kharkov governorate .

During the Second World War, the Starobelsk special camp for Polish officers prisoner of war was located in a former women's convent on the outskirts of the city . Some of them, including eight generals and 380 staff officers, were transported by train to Pyatychatky near Kharkiv between the beginning of April and mid-May 1940 and shot there by the NKVD . The mass graves were only discovered in 1990. The mass murder of the prisoners in the Starobilsk camp took place at the same time and under the same circumstances as the Katyn massacre . The victims of Starobilsk (Polish: Starobielsk) are listed on the official Polish "List of Katyn" (Lista Katyńska), which also includes the Polish policemen, border guards and judicial officers from the Ostashkow camp in northern Russia who were shot near Kalinin .

The city was liberated by the German occupation forces on January 23, 1943 , making it the first city in the Ukrainian Soviet Republic to be recaptured by the Red Army .

Population development

1897	1923	1926	1939	1959	1970	1979	1989	2001	2010	2016
9,801	6,149	13,931	14,419	19,519	22,341	23,851	25.053	22,371	18,796	17,453

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Town twinning

 Lublin in Poland has been the twin town of Starobilsk since March 14, 1996.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• Georgi Langemak (1898–1938), Soviet designer and senior military engineer
• Dmitri Polyakov (1921–1988), Soviet officer, spied for the FBI and the CIA
• Eduard Mudrik (1939-2017), Soviet football player
• Vyacheslav Skomorochow (1940–1992), Soviet hurdler
• Serhij Schadan (* 1974), writer, poet and translator

Personalities who have worked on site

• Ivan Switlychnyj (1929–1992), literary critic, poet, translator, human rights activist and dissident

Web links

Commons : Starobilsk  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Location information (Ukrainian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Demography of Ukrainian cities on pop-stat.mashke.org
2. ↑ Katynskaja drama: Koselsk, Starobelsk, Ostaschkow. Sudba internirovannych polskich voyennoslushashchich. Moskwa 1991, pp. 22-23.
3. ^ Tadeusz Pieńkowski: Droga Polskich Żołnierzy do Katynia, Miednoje, Piatichatek i ...? Warszawa 200, pp. 5-7.
4. ↑ Lista Katyńska ( Memento of the original from April 13, 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. 
5. ↑ Article in Literaturnaja Gaseta No. 18 ( Memento of the original from April 8, 2013 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. from May 5, 2010 (Russian) 
6. ^ The Municipality of Lublin City . Archived from the original on October 31, 2014. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 16, 2015.