Lozova
Losowa (Ukrainian Лозова; Russian Лозовая / Lozovaja ) is a town in the Ukraine in the Kharkiv Oblast with 56 910 inhabitants ( 2013), about 120 kilometers south of Kharkov.
It is the center of the Rajons Losowa and divided adjacent to the city proper or in the urban-type settlement Panjutyne ( Панютине ) and the villages Hersewaniwske ( Герсеванівське ) Dymytrowa ( Димитрова ) Domacha ( Домаха ) Lissiwske ( Лісівське ) and Chlibne ( Хлібне ).
History
Which was founded in 1639 municipal rights were granted in 1869. Already in 1869 a railway station on the route Sevastopol -Kharkiv was opened, later the opening of new lines, so the city became an important railway junction of the Oblast.
On 27 October 2008 there was an explosion at a depot of the military, but there were no injuries or deaths to mourn.
Population
Sources: 1923-1970; , 1979; 1989-2013
Sons and daughters of the town
- Olexandr Hladkyj (* 1987), Ukrainian football player
- Vladimir Alexeyevich Kucherenko (1909-1963), Soviet engineer and politician
- Anatol Rapoport (1911-2007), a central architects of the system sciences