Amvrosiivka

Amwrossijiwka (Ukrainian Амвросіївка; Russian Амвросиевка / Amwrossijewka ) is a city in eastern Ukraine with 19,416 inhabitants ( 2013). The city is the administrative seat of the homonymous Rajons and is a center of the cement industry with a railway station on the route Moscow - Rostov-on- Don.

Geography

Amwrossijiwka located in the southern Donbass in the center of Rajon Amwrossijiwka in the Donetsk oblast 82 km southeast of the Oblastzentrum Donetsk and 29 km south of the gate.

History

The settlement was founded as a railway station on the newly built railway Kursk -Kharkiv - Azov in 1869. The further development of the settlement was based on the mining of marl, the main raw material for cement production, whose rich deposits were discovered in 1836 on the banks of the river Krynka, a right tributary of the Mius. In 1896, the first cement factory was built. On January 25, 1923 Amwrossijiwka became the Rajonszentrum and on January 15, 1929 Amwrossijiwka received the status of an urban-type settlement. In 1938 the settlement was then raised to town. From October 22 1941 to August 23, 1943, the city of troops of the Wehrmacht was occupied.

Population

Sources: 1926-1979; 1989-2013

Rajon

Amwrossijiwka is the administrative center of the March 7, founded in 1923, the same Rajons. The Rajon Amwrossijiwka located in the southeast of the oblast, and is bordered to 73 km in length to the Russian Rostov Oblast.

It has an area of 1455.48 km ² and a population of 45,500 inhabitants ( 2013). The population density is 32 inhabitants per km ².