Kryvyi Rih
Krivoy Rog (Ukrainian Кривий Ріг; Russian Кривой Рог / Krivoy Rog ) is a major city in southern Ukraine with 743,000 inhabitants ( 2013). It is named after the largest city of Dnipropetrovsk Dnipropetrovsk Oblast and the center of the agglomeration Krivoy Rog, a metropolitan area with mechanical engineering, food and chemical industry, Stahlverhüttung and the mining of iron ore and uranium. Based in the city is the third largest company in Ukraine, the steel producer Kryvorizhstal auction.
Krivoy Rog is the cultural center of the Krywbass with theaters, museums, universities, and founded in 2011 the National University of Krivoy Rog. In addition, Krivoy Rog administrative seat of the homonymous Rajons and a garrison town. The 17th Armoured Brigade of the Ukrainian armed forces here has their location.
Awareness in German-speaking gained the name of the city, among other things by the novel The Flag of Krivoy Rog by Otto Gotsche and his eponymous film.
- 6.1 television broadcasting mast Krivoy Rog
- 6.2 BAK Krivoy Rog
- 6.3 Transfiguration
Geography
Geographical location
The city is located in the west of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast in the middle of Krywbass, probably the most important iron ore region of Eastern Europe at the confluence of Saksahan and Inhulez. In the west the city is bordered by the 26.9 km ² Karatschuniwka reservoir and to the southeast by the South Reservoir (Ukrainian Южное водохранилище ), which is connected via the Dnepr Krivoy - Rog - channel with the Kachowkaer reservoir. Both reservoirs are used for drinking water supply of the city.
Krivoy Rog is located about 250 kilometers northeast of Odessa and 146 kilometers south-west of Dnipropetrovsk.
Traffic
The public transport of the city is handled by the tram Krivoy Rog and numerous trolley bus lines.
In Krivoy Rog intersect the national highways.
The main train station is an important railway junction in central Ukraine. Here the railway line Krivoy Rog - Komysch - Sorja begins ( about Apostolowe, Zaporizhia and Polohy ), the railway line Krivoy Rog - Jassynuwata ( about Werchiwzewe, Dniprodserschynsk, Dnipropetrovsk, Synelnykowe, Tschaplyne and Krasnoarmijsk ), the railway line Pomitschna - Krivoy Rog ( about Dolynska ) and the railway line Werchiwzewe - Krivoy Rog ( about Pjatychatky ).
The Krivoy Rog Airport is 17.5 kilometers north-west of the city center in the village Losuwatka.
Boroughs
Administratively, the city is divided into the following 7 Rajone: Rajon Dzerzhinsky, Rajon Dowhynzewe, Rajon Schowtnewe, Rajon Inhulez, Rajon Saksahan, Rajon Terny, Rajon Zentralne - Misto. The two villages Nowoiwaniwka ( Тернуватий Кут ) and the settlements Awanhard Kolomijzewe ( Коломійцеве ) and Stepne there are also ( Новоіванівка ) ⊙ and Ternuwatyj Kut ( Авангард ) Hirnyzke ( Гірницьке ), ( Степне ).
History
The city was founded by Zaporozhian Cossacks as a coaching inn in the 17th century. In 1860, Krivoy Rog got the status of a city in the province of Kherson. Since the start of production of iron ore in 1881, Krivoy Rog experienced a rapid economic recovery. The number of inhabitants increased rapidly.
Between 1941 and 1944 the city was occupied by the German Wehrmacht. From 1942 to 1943, in the city of the German POW camp Stalag 338 During the German occupation the city was also the capital of the county areas Krivoy Rog City and Krivoy Rog country of the Reich Commissariat Ukraine.
During the fighting with the troops of the Red Army suffered heavy damage Krivoy Rog of this during the retreat. As part of the Nikopol - Krywyj Riher operation, the city was finally liberated on 22 February 1944 of the 3rd Ukrainian Front of the Red Army.
After the end of the Second World War, the city was rebuilt and developed into an industrial center and transportation hub for the region.
Demographics
Sources: 1923-1939: 1959: 1970: 1979: 1989 to 2013:
(*) After incorporation of the city Inhulez in 2002
Climate
The city's climate is temperate continental with generally mild winters and warm (sometimes hot ) summers. The average annual temperature is 8.8 ° C. The lowest temperature is in January ( -5.0 ° C), the month with the highest temperature is July with 21.1 ° C.
Sports
The most famous sports club in the city is the football club FK Krywbas Krivoy Rog. The home of gambling in the Ukrainian Premjer - Liha association is the Metalurh Stadium, which can accommodate nearly 30,000 spectators.
Another successful sports club in the city is playing in the Basketball Super League Ukraine Basketball BK Kriwbasbasket.
Structures
Television transmitting mast Krivoy Rog
The " television broadcasting mast Krivoy Rog " is a 1960 erected, 185 m high guyed steel tube mast, which is equipped in 2 levels with 3 cross members, which lead from the mast structure to the guy ropes. In these beams, there is a provided with a railing catwalk and some smaller antennas.
BAK Krivoy Rog
In 1985, the city of Krivoy Rog, near Dolynska ( Kirovohrad Oblast ) with the " BAK Krivoy Rog " 48.09832532.695658333333, one of the world's largest industrial construction project at that time was about 55 km north-west began. The mining and processing combine Krivoy Rog ( FOC / ГОК ) should be established jointly by the USSR and several socialist countries in the CMEA, so that construction crews from Czechoslovakia, SR Romania, East Germany and Bulgaria co- VR .. The aim of the project was the construction of a large plant in which iron oxide ore with an iron content of about 40 % for a new technology should be treated. The planned final capacity of the plant was 33.7 million tons / year. After the political changes of the foreign construction crews finished their work around 1992, when the building was realized two-thirds. Its full completion was not achieved.
Transfiguration
The Transfiguration is a consecrated in 2003, 43 meters high cathedral in the style of Ukrainian Baroque. She's Episcopal seat of the Bishop of the Diocese of Krivoy Rog, Nikopol the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate.
Twinning
- Russia Nizhny Tagil, Russia
- People's Republic of China Handan, People's Republic of China
Sons and daughters of the town
- Helena Makowska (* 1893), Polish actress
- Hennadij Udovenko ( born 1931 ), Ukrainian politician and diplomat
- Petro Dyminskyj (born 1954 ), Ukrainian businessman and sports official
- Sergiy Fesenko ( born 1959 ), Ukrainian swimmer
- Vladimir Malakhov Anatoljevich (* 1968 ), Austrian dancer and artistic director
- Oleksandr Wilkul ( b. 1974 ), Ukrainian politicians
- Vitaly Markovich Malykin ( b. 1982 ), Ukrainian chess player
- Alyona Bondarenko ( born 1984 ), Ukrainian tennis player
- Kateryna Bondarenko ( born 1986 ), Ukrainian tennis player
- Yevhen Chytrow (* 1988), Ukrainian boxer
Rajon
The Rajon Krivoy Rog is managed by Krivoy Rog from which, however, is not a part of himself. The Rajon surrounding, apart from the south, the entire city area and has an area of 1347.24 km ². With its 44 972 inhabitants ( 2012) gives a population density of 33 inhabitants per km ².