Svitlovodsk

Svitlovodsk

Світловодськ

Svitlovodsk

Basic data

Oblast :

Kirovohrad Oblast

Rajon :

District-free city

Height :

126 m

Area :

45 km²

Residents :

45,673 (2016)

Population density :

1,015 inhabitants per km²

Postcodes :

27500

Area code :

+380 5236

Geographic location :

49 ° 3 ' N , 33 ° 14' E Coordinates: 49 ° 3 '0 " N , 33 ° 14' 0" E

KOATUU :

3510900000

Administrative structure :

1 city, 1 urban-type settlement

Address:

вул. Леніна 14
27501 м. Світловодськ

Statistical information

Svitlovodsk

Svitlovodsk ( Ukrainian Світловодськ - until 1962 Khrushchev / Хрущов to 1969 - Kremhes / Кремгес ; Russian Светловодск Svetlovodsk is a city on) kremenchuk reservoir in eastern Oblast Kirovohrad in Ukraine . Switlovodsk has 45,000 inhabitants (2016) and is the administrative center of the raion of the same name , but not part of it itself.

The urban district of Switlowodsk includes the city itself and the urban-type settlement Vlasiwka ( Власівка ). In Switlovodsk there is a dam with a hydropower plant that dams the Dnieper to the Kremenchuk reservoir. In addition, the 55 km long Zybulnyk flows into the Dnieper here. There is a train station in the village. Local public transport is handled by buses. The oblast capital Kropywnyzkyj is 108 km southwest of Svitlovodsk.

history

In the late 1950s, the workers' quarters for the workers involved in building the dam were in the village. After the dam was completed, Switlovodsk experienced rapid population growth as businesses were relocated due to the existing locally produced energy.

Personalities

Sons and daughters

Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko (born 1961), Russian cosmonaut
Wiktor Wychryst (* 1992), amateur boxer

population

Population development
1959	1970	1979	1989	1992	2001	2010	2016
13,254	34,269	47.166	55,591	58,600	50.094	47,640	45,673

Source:

Rajon

Switlovodsk is the administrative seat of the Rajons of the same name, founded in 1939. The Switlovodsk Raion has about 13,000 inhabitants and an area of 1219 km². The population density is 11 people per km².

Individual evidence

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

Web links

Official website of the city (Ukrainian)

[Demographische_Entwicklung-1] Demography of Ukrainian cities on pop-stat.mashke.org