Liubotyn

Ljubotyn (Ukrainian Люботин; Russian Люботин / Lyubotin ) is a city in Ukraine with about 20,000 inhabitants ( 2013). The town is a spa town and a railway junction in the Oblast Kharkiv.

Geography

Ljubotyn lies on the River Ljubotynka (Ukrainian Люботинка ), a tributary of the Udy, 24 km west of Oblastzentrums Kharkiv. In the north of the city clips the highway M 03, a section of European route 40, the urban area. On the railway line Borschschti -Kharkiv the Odeska Salisnyzja Ljubotyn is connected with a railway station.

For the municipality belongs next to the city nor village

  • Smorodske (Ukrainian Смородське )

And the three settlements name

  • Bajrak (Ukrainian Байрак )
  • Caravan (Ukrainian Караван )
  • Kowalenky (Ukrainian Коваленки )

History

Founded in the mid-50s of the seventeenth century on a river island, Ljubotyn received city status in 1938 and since 1993 has been a city of regional significance. Of 20 October 1941 to 29 August 1943, the city of troops of the Wehrmacht was occupied.

Demographics

Source: 1923-1970; , 1979; 1989-2013

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