Wolnowacha

Wolnowacha
Волноваха
	Wolnowacha
Basic data
Oblast :	Donetsk Oblast
Rajon :	Wolnovacha district
Height :	271 m
Area :	21 km²
Residents :	21,678 (2019)
Population density :	1,032 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes :	85700
Area code :	+380 6244
Geographic location :	47 ° 36 '  N , 37 ° 29'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 35 '52 "  N , 37 ° 29' 0"  E
KOATUU :	1421510100
Administrative structure :	1 city , 3 villages
Address:	вул. Леніна 88 85700 Волноваський р-н
Website :	http://www.volngors.in.ua/
Statistical information
Wolnowacha

Wolnowacha ( Ukrainian and Russian Волноваха ) is a city in eastern Ukraine in Donetsk Oblast with about 22,000 inhabitants (2019). The city is a railway junction and the administrative seat of the Rajon of the same name .

geography

Wolnowacha is located in the southern Donbass in the center of Wolnowacha Rajon, 60 km southwest of the Donetsk Oblast center at one of the highest points of the Azov Altitude ( 282  m ). For the township include not only the city itself (area: 8,087 hectares) nor the villages Nowohryhoriwka ( Новогригорівка ) Nowopawliwka ( Новопавлівка ) and Trudowe ( Трудове ).

history

District museum in place

Wolnowacha railway station, 1909

The settlement was founded as a train station on a newly built railway line of the Katharinenbahn in 1881. In 1938 Wolnowacha received city status. On October 11, 1941, the city was occupied by Wehrmacht troops and liberated by the Red Army on September 9, 1943 .

During the war in Ukraine on January 13, 2015, the Buhas checkpoint of the Ukrainian army near Wolnowacha was the target of a fire attack. The impacting rockets of the projectile launcher salvo covered the area with shrapnel. A coach at the checkpoint was hit, 12 civilians died and 17 others were wounded. The Ukrainian government accused pro-Russian separatists of the crime, while they blamed the Ukrainians for the deaths of their own people. In a third theory it is speculated that a fleeing passenger triggered a land mine next to the road, the splinters of which are said to have hit the bus.

population

The population is composed as follows: Ukrainians - 75.1%, Russians - 20%, people of other nationalities - 4.9%.

Population development

1939	1959	1970	1979	1989	2001	2010	2019
15,261	20.199	24,427	25,411	26,371	24,647	23,442	21,678

Sources: 1939 from 1959

Web links

Commons : Wolnowacha  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• City website (Russian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Cities and Settlements of Ukraine on http://pop-stat.mashke.org/
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} History of the city ( Memento of the original from February 24, 2012 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. (Russian) 
3. ↑ City history ( Memento of the original from May 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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. (Russian) 
4. ↑ Benjamin Bidder: "Civilian Victims in Eastern Ukraine: Death at the Checkpoint" , in Spiegel Online , January 21, 2015