Wasash

Wasash

Вараш

Wasash

Basic data

Oblast :

Rivne Oblast

Rajon :

District-free city

Height :

no information

Area :

11.31 km²

Residents :

42,350 (2017)

Population density :

3,744 inhabitants per km²

Postcodes :

34499

Area code :

+380 3636

Geographic location :

51 ° 21 ' N , 25 ° 51' E Coordinates: 51 ° 20 '37 " N , 25 ° 50' 57" E

KOATUU :

5610700000

Administrative structure :

1 city, 1 village

Mayor :

Serhiy Anoshchenko

Address:

м-н Незалежності 1
34400 м. Вараш

Website :

http://varash.rv.gov.ua/

Statistical information

Wasash

Warasch ( Ukrainian and Russian Вараш ) is a city in the western Ukrainian Oblast Rivne with about 42,000 inhabitants (2019).

City center of Warasch

Varash is mostly inhabited by ethnic Ukrainians (90.6%). The largest minority is the Russian population with 7.6% (2001). The city's coat of arms shows three cooling towers of a nuclear power plant.

geography

The city is located in the historic Volhynia landscape in the northwest of the Rivne Oblast on the border with Volyn Oblast in the southern foothills of the Pripjet Marshes on the right bank of the Styr River .

Warasch is enclosed to the east by Volodymyrez Rajon , but is not part of it. The city is connected to the Ukrainian road network via the T-18-08 territorial road and has a train station on the Kovel – Kiev railway line .

On October 26, 2018, the city became the center of the newly founded municipality of Warasch ( Вараська міська громада Waraska miska hromada ). This also includes the village of Sabolottja ( Заболоття ), until then the city formed the settlement council of the same name.

history

The town was founded in 1973 when the construction of the Rivne nuclear power plant began in the immediate vicinity . The village of Warasch had previously stood on the site since 1776. This was founded in 1776 and replaced by Kuznetsovsk on the 200th anniversary. Today the old settlement Warasch no longer exists, but the name was chosen again as the place name in 2016.

In 1977 the rapidly growing settlement was given a new name, it was named after the enlightener Nikolai Ivanovich Kuznetsov in Kuznetsovsk (Ukrainian Кузнецовськ ; Russian Кузнецовск ). The population grew rapidly in the following decades (see → Population development) and is one of the few Ukrainian cities that also recorded strong growth in the 1990s. Because it was not built until the 1970s, it is an interesting urban example of late socialist architecture . In 1984 it received the status of a city, on May 19, 2016 the place was renamed back to its old name Warasch in the course of the decommunization of Ukraine .