Tsiurupynsk
Cyurupinsk (Ukrainian Цюрупинськ; Russian Цюрупинск / Tsjurupinsk ) is a city in the southern Ukrainian Kherson Oblast with 25,300 inhabitants ( 2013). It lies on the left bank of Konka, a tributary of the Dnieper River in 20 km Distance to Oblastzentrum Kherson. Cyurupinsk is the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons. For the urban area and the village Sahy include (Ukrainian Саги ) and the settlement Cyurupinsk (Ukrainian Цюрупинськ ).
History
The city goes on a Cossack settlement, which Oleschkiwska Sich (Ukrainian: Олешківська Січ ) back, which was first mentioned in 1711. Later he was then the name Олешки / Oleschky (Ukrainian ) and Russian Алешки / Aleshki, 1876 was the place for the first time a city. Until 1897, the town had grown to 8,999 inhabitants, of whom 69.44 % Russians, Ukrainians 21.68 %, 8.19% Jews, 0.33 % Polish, 0.17% to 0.1 % Tatars and German. In the first half of the 20th century the development of the city by the Russian Civil War, the famine of 1932/33, and the Second World War has been greatly hindered. In 1928 she was renamed in honor of the Soviet parliamentarian Zjurupa, who was born in this settlement in Cyurupinsk / Tsjurupinsk. By 1956, the place was only grown to 11,700 inhabitants. After Cyurupinsk had lost in the meantime the city status, he was again awarded in 1959. In the following decades, the town grew rapidly, so that 2007 31.100 inhabitants lived in it, including 82 % Ukrainians.
Economy and Transport
The town, located on the street 97 between Kherson and Simferopol on the Crimean peninsula, which crosses north of Cyurupinsk the Dnepr.
People
- Birthplace of the Soviet parliamentarian Alexander Dmitrievich Zjurupa (1870-1928)