Voznesensk

Voznesensk
Вознесенськ
	Voznesensk
Basic data
Oblast :	Mykolaiv Oblast
Rajon :	District-free city
Height :	6 m
Area :	22.56 km²
Residents :	35,450 (2016)
Population density :	1,571 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes :	56518
Area code :	+380 5134
Geographic location :	47 ° 34 '  N , 31 ° 20'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 33 '37 "  N , 31 ° 20' 10"  E
KOATUU :	4810200000
Administrative structure :	1 city
Mayor :	Yuri Herschow
Address:	пл. Центральна 1 56500 м. Вознесенськ
Website :	http://www.voznesensk.org/
Statistical information
Voznesensk

Voznesensk (Ukrainian Вознесенськ ; Russian Вознесенск ) is an oblast-administrated city in Mykolaiv Oblast in Ukraine . It is located on the left bank of the Southern Bug at the confluence with the Mertvovid (Мертвовід) and is the administrative seat of the Voznesensk Rajon .

Pavilion in place

The city was re-founded in 1790 at the instigation of Tsarina Catherine the Great on a previously existing Cossack settlement. Major expansion plans were halted by the death of the Tsarina in 1796, but the city developed into a local center in the region.

population

1989	2001	2005	2016
43,881	42,634	39,951	35,450

Source:

sons and daughters of the town

• Dmitri Alexandrowitsch Dolgow (1860-1939), Russian general of the infantry
• Adolf Fetsch (* 1940), Russian-German integration activist, CSU politician
• Michail Herzenstein (1859–1906), Russian economist, university professor and publicist
• Wladislaw Schut (* 1941), British-Russian composer

Web links

Commons : Voznesensk  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Population development on pop-stat.mashke.org