Vovchansk

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Vovchansk
Вовчанськ
Vovchansk coat of arms
Vovchansk (Ukraine)
Vovchansk
Vovchansk
Basic data
Oblast : Kharkiv Oblast
Rajon : Vovchansk Raion
Height : 104 m
Area : 70.3 km²
Residents : 18,906 (2015)
Population density : 269 ​​inhabitants per km²
Postcodes : 62500
Area code : +380 5741
Geographic location : 50 ° 17 '  N , 36 ° 57'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 17 '16 "  N , 36 ° 56' 34"  E
KOATUU : 6321610100
Administrative structure : 1 city , 1 settlement
Mayor : Olha Anatolyivna Toporkova
Address: вул. Леніна 92
62504 м. Вовчанськ
Website : http://www.vovchrayrada.kh.ua/
Statistical information
Vovchansk (Kharkiv Oblast)
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Vovchansk ( Ukrainian Вовчанськ ; Russian Волчанск Volchansk ) is a city in eastern Ukraine and the administrative center of the same name Rajons in the north of Kharkiv Oblast with about 19,000 inhabitants (2015).

Orthodox church in the city

geography

Vovchansk lies on both banks of the Vovcha , which flows into the Donets just beyond the city . The city is located directly on the Ukrainian-Russian border around 75 km northeast of the Kharkiv oblast center and has a train station on the Belgorod - Kupjansk railway line (part of the Sumy – Horlivka line ). Through the city running territorial road T-21-04 .

The settlement Pleteniwka (Ukrainian Плетенівка ) with 124 inhabitants also belongs to the municipality.

history

The place is first mentioned in writing with the name Vowtschi Vody (Ukrainian Вовчі Води ) in 1688 and was one of the first settlements in Sloboda-Ukraine . In 1780, as a result of an administrative reform, the place received the status of a city and its current name. In the 19th century, the city was the administrative center of Ujesd Vovchansk in the Kharkov governorate . The city was occupied by Wehrmacht troops on June 10, 1942 and liberated by Red Army troops in August 1943 .

Population development

1785 1864 1897 1914 1923 1926 1939
02.666 09.263 11,020 15,481 11,211 20,836 20,435
1959 1970 1979 1989 2001 2005 2015
20,592 22,210 24,375 24,350 20,695 19,852 18,906

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Personalities

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Demography of Ukrainian cities on pop-stat.mashke.org
  2. ↑ official site of the place (Ukrainian)