Sverdlovsk, Ukraine
Sverdlovsk (Ukrainian Свердловськ; Russian Свердловск / Sverdlovsk ) is a city of regional importance in eastern Ukraine. It is the administrative center of Sverdlovsk Rajon, but itself is not part of this Rajons and with 65 269 inhabitants ( 2013) is the seventh largest city in the Luhansk Oblast.
The city is located in the eastern Donets Basin approximately 80 km south of Oblasthauptstadt Luhansk.
History
The town was founded in 1938 by the merger of several villages and is named after the Soviet Russian politician and statesman Yakov Sverdlov ( 1885-1919 ) named. In Sverdlovsk there was the prisoner of war camp for German prisoners of war number 470.
On 28 May 2009 a bill was in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine presented, in which it was planned to rename the city of Sverdlovsk in Dolschansk ( Должанск ). So far, however, nothing in this respect is further happened.
Population
Demographics
While the population of the city during the Soviet Union grew steadily she takes a similar degree from since the independence of Ukraine.
Sources: 1926-1939: 1959: 1970: 1979: 1989 to 2013:
Ethnic composition
According to the census of the population of Ukraine (2001) there are three major ethnic groups in the city:
- Ukrainians - 52.0 %
- Russians - 42.6 %
- Belorussians - 1.2%
Municipality
The municipality of Sverdlovsk (Ukrainian Свердловська міськрада ) has 98 436 inhabitants (1 September 2012) and an area of 84 km ². It is divided into two municipalities and five municipal council municipalities associated with the city of Sverdlovsk community.
At the township next to Sverdlovsk include the city
- Tscherwonopartysansk (Ukrainian Червонопартизанськ own municipality ) with a population of approximately 15,800 km ² to 6.91,
The settlements of urban type
- Kalininskyj (Ukrainian Калінінський, own settlement Council local ), (approx. 2,700 inhabitants, 2.19 km ²)
- Komsomolskyj (Ukrainian Комсомольський, own settlement Council local ), (approx. 3,100 inhabitants)
- Leninske (Ukrainian Ленінське, own settlement Council local ), (ca 3,400 inhabitants, 5.99 km ²)
- Pawliwka ( Павлівка, Residential Council local Volodarsk )
- Schachtarske (Ukrainian Шахтарське, own settlement Council local ), (approx. 3,600 inhabitants)
- Volodarsk (Ukrainian Володарськ, own settlement Council local ), (approx. 2,800 inhabitants, 8.79 km ²)
The two villages
- Kondrjutsche ( Кондрюче, Residential Council local Kalininskyj )
- Malowedmesche ( Маловедмеже, Residential Council local Leninske )
And the five settlements
- Khmelnitsky ( Хмельницький, Residential Council local Kalininskyj )
- Fedoriwka ( Федорівка, Residential Council local Leninske )
- Kysselewe ( Киселеве, Residential Council local Schachtarske )
- Prochladne ( Прохладне, Residential Council local Komsomolskyj )
- Ustyniwka ( Устинівка, Residential Council local Leninske )
. The settlements are located on former coal mines in 8 to 26 km away from the actual Sverdlovsk.
Rajon
Sverdlovsk is the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons, but is not itself a part of him. The Rajon Sverdlovsk (Ukrainian Свердловський район ) located south of the Luhansk Oblast and is bordered to the east and south for a distance of 84 km to the Russian Rostov Oblast. It has 12,073 inhabitants ( November 2012 ) and an area of 1131.9 km ². The population density is 11 inhabitants per km ².