Synelnykove

Synelnykowe (Ukrainian Синельникове; Russian Синельниково / Sinelnikovo ) is a Ukrainian town with 30,000 inhabitants (2013 ) and the administrative center of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Raion Synelnykowe in the. The town is a railroad junction.

Geography

Synelnykowe is located on Worona, a 28 km long tributary of the Dnieper River in the geographic center of the 48 km southeast of Rajon Dnipropetrovsk.

History

Synelnykowe was in the early nineteenth century as a village in the district Pavlograd in the province Jekaterinoslaw (today Dnipropetrovsk ) established by the General I. Sinelnikowu, who also gave the place its name. In the years 1868/1869 the station of Synelnykowe was built. The railroad gave impetus to the industrialization of the city. During the Civil War the city changed due to its location 14 times out of a hand of a war opponent in the other. In 1917 the Soviet power was established in Synelnykowe then and 1923 the town was the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons. From the autumn of 1941 until September 23, 1943, the city was occupied by the German Wehrmacht. In 1979 the town was granted the status of an independent city.

Population

Sources: 1897: Encyclopedia of Ukraine from 1923 to 1939, 1979: 1959: 1970: 1989 to 2013:

Rajon

The managed by Synelnykowe from Rajon Synelnykowe has an area of 1648 km ² and a population of 39 048 inhabitants ( 2012). The population density is 24 inhabitants per km ².