Horlivka
Horlivka (Ukrainian Горлівка; Russian Горловка / Gorlowka ) is situated on the river Luhan a city in the Donetsk Oblast in eastern Ukraine, 47 km to the north of Donetsk. Horlivka has 257 052 inhabitants ( 2013).
History
Horlivka was founded in 1779 and renamed in 1868 in honor of the Russian geologists Petro Gorlov in Horlivka. During his work for the coal industry in the area of the place grew into a working class neighborhood, since 1932 Trams are Horlivka in the city.
In the city, the two POW camp existed 242 ( on the northern edge of the city) and 472 for German prisoners of war of World War II. Heavy sufferers were treated in the Kriegsgefangenenhospitälern 1242 and 6027.
Political Structure
The county has a total of 276 069 inhabitants Horlivka (2012 ).
Horlivka divided into:
- 3 Stadtrajone ( Rajon Kalinin, Rajon Mykytiw, Rajon Zentralne - Misto, in the graph on the left: purple, green or red)
- 3 settlements of urban type: Holmiwskyj ( Гольмівський ) Sajzewe ( Зайцеве ) Pantelejmoniwka ( Пантелеймонівка )
- 1 Village: Rjasne ( Рясне )
- 7 settlements: Hladossowe ( Гладосове ) Mychajliwka ( Михайлівка ) Oserjaniwka ( Озерянівка ) Pjatychatky ( П'ятихатки ) Stawky ( Ставки ) Fedoriwka ( Федорівка ) Schyroka Balka ( Широка Балка )
Population
Source: 1923-1979; 1989-2013
Personalities
- Yuriy Boyko (* 1958 in Gorlowka ), Ukrainian politicians
- Nikolai Kapustin Girschewitsch (* 1937 in Gorlowka ), Soviet composer and pianist
- Anatoli Yevtushenko ( b. 1934 in Gorlowka ), Russian handball coach and Olympian
- Najponk (born 1972 ), Czech jazz musicians
- Ruslan Ponomariov (* 1983 in Horlivka ), Ukrainian chess champion
- Sergei Rebrov (* 1974 in Horlivka ), Ukrainian football player
- Mark Ossipowitsch Travel (1895-1992), Soviet opera singer, born near Horlivka