Welyka Lepetycha

Welyka Lepetycha
Велика Лепетиха
	Welyka Lepetycha
Basic data
Oblast :	Kherson Oblast
Rajon :	Welyka Lepetycha district
Height :	85 m
Area :	10.54 km²
Residents :	8,226 (2017)
Population density :	780 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes :	74500
Area code :	+380 5543
Geographic location :	47 ° 9 '  N , 33 ° 56'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 9 '30 "  N , 33 ° 55' 55"  E
KOATUU :	6521255100
Administrative structure :	1 urban-type settlement
Address:	вул. Щорса 4 74502 смт. Велика Лепетиха
Website :	http://lepetykha-rda.gov.ua/
Statistical information
Welyka Lepetycha

Velyka Lepetycha ( Ukrainian Велика Лепетиха ; Russian Великая Лепетиха Velikaya Lepeticha ) is an urban-type settlement in the north of the Ukrainian Oblast of Kherson with 8,300 inhabitants (2017).

geography

Welyka Lepetycha is located on the left bank of the Dnepr , which is dammed up to the Kachowka reservoir , 153 km northeast of the oblast capital Kherson and 75 km northeast of Nowa Kachowka . The nearest train station is in Sirohosy (Ukrainian Сірогози ) 51 km away .

history

The settlement, founded in 1792, has been the center of the Rajon since 1923 . It was occupied by Wehrmacht troops from September 16, 1941 to February 8, 1944 and has had the status of an urban-type settlement since 1956.

Population development

1832	1886	1959	1970	1979	1989	2001	2017
1,154	5,145	8,944	10,018	10,446	10,750	9,878	8,226

Source: 1832; from 1959;

Sons and daughters of the village

• Vladimir Dawidowitsch Baranow-Rossiné (1888–1944); Russian avant-garde artist

Web links

• Rajon ( Memento from April 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (Ukrainian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Demography of Ukrainian cities on pop-stat.mashke.org
2. ↑ History of the place on lepetykha-rda.gov.ua (Ukrainian)