Vilniansk

Vilniansk
Вільнянськ
	Vilniansk
Basic data
Oblast :	Zaporizhia Oblast
Rajon :	Vilnyansk Raion
Height :	144-157 m
Area :	4.2 km²
Residents :	15,558 (2016)
Population density :	3,704 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes :	70000
Area code :	+380 6143
Geographic location :	47 ° 56 '  N , 35 ° 26'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 56 '0 "  N , 35 ° 26' 0"  E
KOATUU :	2321510100
Administrative structure :	1 city , 1 settlement
Address:	вул. Бочарова 4 70002 м. Вільнянськ
Statistical information
Vilniansk

Vilnjansk ( Ukrainian Вільнянськ ; Russian Вольнянск Wolnjansk ) is a Ukrainian city ​​in the north of the Zaporizhia Oblast with 15,500 inhabitants (2016), about 22 km northeast of the Oblast capital Zaporizhia .

Vilnyansk is the administrative center of Raion Vilnyansk , the borough belongs nor the village Smorodyne (Ukrainian Смородине ) with 40 inhabitants.

history

Vilnyansk was founded in 1840 under the name Sofievka. The first renaming took place in 1935. The village got the name Krasnoarmijske (Красноармійське), in 1939 it was renamed correctly in Ukrainian Chervonoarmijske (Червоноармійське). In 1966 the village was raised to the status of a town and was given the current name of Vilnyansk.

The place was occupied by troops of the German Wehrmacht from October 6, 1941 to September 21, 1943 .

Population development

1979	1989	2001	2005	2016
15,368	17,566	16,522	16,292	15,558

Source: 1979, 1989–2016

sons and daughters of the town

• Eduard Sobol (* 1995), football player

Rajon

The Vilnyansk Raion, which is administered from Vilnjansk, has an area of ​​1288 km² and a population of 50,536 inhabitants, which corresponds to a population density of 39 inhabitants per km².

See also : List of Rajons of Ukraine

Web links

• Photographs of the city (Russian)
• Side of Vilnyansk Raion (Ukrainian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Population figures on pop-stat.mashke.org
2. ↑ Smorodyne (Ukrainian)
3. ↑ Census of the USSR 1979 ( Memento of May 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) on webgeo.ru