Kobeliaky

Kobeljaky (Ukrainian Кобеляки; Russian Кобеляки / Kobeljaki, Polish Kobielaki ) is a city in central Ukraine Poltava Oblast. It is the center of the Rajons same name. Kobeljaky is located on the right bank of the river Vorskla, in which south of the center of Kobeljatschka opens. It is disputed whether the river gave the place the name, or vice versa.

History

The area around Kobeljaky belonged from the 11th to the 13th century, the Principality Principality Perejaslawl of Kievan Rus. The foundation of the present-day city was carried out by the Polish magnates Nemiroff. First documentary mention of the place can be found, but only on the maps of Y. Dankert ( Creation date 1620-1636 ) and F. Dewit (1632 ), which originated in the time of the Cossack state under Bohdan Khmelnytsky. Since 1649 Kobeljaky was the site of a Cossack hundred of Poltava Pulkes 1654 and received the status of a city. In 1768 the city was destroyed in the course of the 4th Russian -Turkish War of Crimean Tatars.

After Kobaljaky became in 1773 part of the province Jekaterinoslaw, it belonged from 1803 to Poltava Governorate and became the administrative center of a Ujesd. In the second half of the 19th century, the founding of many schools and cultural institutions was carried out. Between 1859 and 1897 the population grew from 7,999 to 10,487 inhabitants. The Ukrainians established in 1897 with 73.5 %, the largest population group. In addition, Jews ( 20.1 ), Russians (5.3% ) and Poland ( 0.4 % ) major ethnic groups.

This increase has continued, so that already lived in the approximately 1907 15.862 inhabitants in the city, the Jewish proportion was significantly increased to 29.5%. At that time there was in the place twelve stone, 181 wood and 1,501 clay, and 45 of small producers, 9 Water and 20 windmills, 6 dairies and 12 Smithing. In addition to a woman high school and an urban educational institution Kobeljaky had also a four elementary schools, a hospital and a pharmacy. At religious institutions, there were nine Orthodox churches, a synagogue and two Jewish houses of worship.

In the first half of the 20th century stagnated urban development. This was due not only to the Russian Civil War, the famine and the Second World War, but also the fact that the city is not on the 10 km north extending railway line Poltava - was connected Krementschuk. Indeed, regional industrial settlements were made rather on the railway line, as in Kobeljaky. In 1923 lived in the town of 12,192 inhabitants. 1966 Kobeljaky was connected to the gas network. Between 1979 and 1989, the population grew from 11,902 to 12,975 inhabitants, but on a declining trend since the beginning of the transition crisis. Since 1993 there has been twinned with the German town of Singen.

Economy and Transport

The industrial importance of the city is relatively low. It is only a few food processing companies. Kobeljaky is on the road T- 0404, which crosses the city with the E -577 16 km west. The nearest railway station is located 10 kilometers northern Bilyky.