Polohy

Polohy (Ukrainian Пологи; Russian Пологи / Pologi ) is a Ukrainian city in the Zaporizhia Oblast with 19,250 inhabitants ( 2013).

The city is a railway junction on the left bank of the river Kinská. It is the administrative and cultural center of the Rajons same name about 100 km southeast of Zaporizhia.

History

Polohy was founded in 1887 under its present name, the Ukrainian name means "birth". In 1923, the village in honor of the heads of government in Ukraine, Vlas Yakovlevich Chubar, renamed Tschubariwku and raised to the urban-type settlement. After Chubar fell during the Stalinist purges of favor, got the settlement in 1937 to its original name back in 1938 and received the status of a city. During the German occupation Polohy was the capital of the district Pologi within the Reich Commissariat Ukraine.

Population

Demographics

Source: 1939-1970: 1979: 1989-2013:

Personalities

  • Polina Semyonovna Zhemchuzhina (1897-1970), Soviet politician and wife of Vyacheslav Molotov
  • Alexander Petrovich Rudakov (1910-1966), Soviet politician
  • Volodymyr Kozak * 1959, Ukrainian politicians

Rajon

The of Polohy from managed Rajon Polohy has an area of 1340 km ² and a population of 41 827 inhabitants ( 2012), which corresponds to a population density of 31 inhabitants per km ².

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