Pervomaiskyi

Perwomajskyj (Ukrainian Первомайський; Russian Первомайский / Pervomaisky ) is the fifth largest city in the Kharkiv Oblast Ukrainian and the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons with about 30,000 inhabitants ( 2013).

The name of the city means May Day ( the Russian Perwoje Maja ), the international day of work. Near the town is the company Chym -Prom, one of the largest chemical factories of Ukraine.

Geography

Perwomajskyj is located in the middle of Rajon Perwomajskyj in the Kharkiv Oblast, 86 km south of Oblastzentrums Kharkiv on the railway line Moscow - Simferopol.

To town community numbered to 1994 near the town Perwomajskyj still the village Sywasch (Ukrainian Сиваш ), today it is only the unofficial name of the former local area. The size of the municipality is 30.8 km ².

History

As a supply station for the railroad named Lichatschewo 1869 at the newly built railway line Kursk - Kharkov - built Sevastopol, the village was renamed in 1952 in Perwomajskyj. The place was occupied on 20 October 1941 to 16 September 1943 by troops of the German Wehrmacht. With the construction of a chemical plant was started in 1964. Since 1965 Rajonszentrum, Perwomajskyj since 1991 has the status of a city and since 1992 the status of a city of regional significance.

Demographics

Source: 1927-1939, 1959, 1970, 1979, 1989-2012

Rajon

The of Perwomajskyj from managed Rajon Perwomajskyj has an area of 1,194 km ² and a population of 19 879 inhabitants. The population density in the sparsely populated Rajon is 17 inhabitants per km ².