Kalanchak (Ukrainian: Каланчак, Russian: Каланчак) is a rural settlement in Skadovsk Raion, Kherson Oblast, southern Ukraine.[1] It hosts the administration of the Kalanchak settlement hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.[2] It has a population of 8,977 (2022 estimate).[3]
Kalanchak | |
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 Memorial to Holodomor victims | |
 Flag  Coat of arms | |
  Kalanchak  Kalanchak | |
| Coordinates: 46°15′08″N 33°17′26″E / 46.25222°N 33.29056°E | |
| Country |  Ukraine |
| Oblast | Kherson Oblast |
| Raion | Skadovsk Raion |
| Hromada | Kalanchak settlement hromada |
| Area | |
• Total | 21.706 km2 (8.381 sq mi) |
| Population (2022) | |
• Total |  8,977 |
| Postal code | 75800 |
| Area code | +380-5530 |
History
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In the Middle Ages, there was a fortification referred to as kale-kucuk (small fortress in Crimean Tatar). The settlement was founded in 1794 as a home for exiled participants in the Turbai uprising.[4]
During the Ukrainian War of Independence, from 1917 to 1920, it passed between various factions. Afterwards, it was administratively part of the Mykolaiv Governorate of Ukraine.[5]
Until 18 July 2020, Kalanchak was the administrative center of Kalanchak Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Kherson Oblast to five. The area of Kalanchak Raion was merged into Skadovsk Raion.[6][7]
Kalanchak became the site of the first attack on Ukraine during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, when Russian soldiers attacked an outpost in the town.[8]
On 25 February 2022, the second day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Kalanchak appeared in the Russian-controlled area on a map published by the Institute for the Study of War.[9]
Until 26 January 2024, Kalanchak was designated urban-type settlement. On this day, a new law entered into force which abolished this status, and Kalanchak became a rural settlement.[10]
Demographics
editAs of the 2001 Ukrainian census, Kalanchak had a population of 11,116 inhabitants, which was almost entirely ethnically Ukrainian. Small Russian, Armenian, Moldovan, Belarusian minorities also live in the town, as well as some Romani people. The native language composition was as follows:[11]
Transportation
editKalanchak railway station is located in Myrne approximately 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) east of the settlement. It is on the railway which used to connect Kherson with Dzhankoi; however, after the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014, the trains only run as far as Vadym, close to the border with Crimea. There is infrequent passenger traffic.
The settlement has access to Highway M17, which runs north to Kherson and south to the border with Crimea.
See also
editReferences
edit- ↑ "Главная страница Каланчацька селищна рада". kalanrada.ks.ua. Archived from the original on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2016-11-13.
- ↑ "Каланчацкая громада" (in Russian). Портал об'єднаних громад України.
- ↑ Чисельність наявного населення України на 1 січня 2022 [Number of Present Population of Ukraine, as of January 1, 2022] (PDF) (in Ukrainian and English). Kyiv: State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 July 2022.
- ↑ Volodymyr Kubijovyc (26 May 2016). Encyclopedia of Ukraine: Volume II: G-K. University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division. p. 1169. ISBN 978-1-4426-5118-0.
- ↑ С. Хургін (1922). Адміністраційна Мапа Української Соц. Рад. Республіки (Map). 1:1,680,000 (in Ukrainian). Kharkiv: Народний комісаріат внутрішніх справ.
- ↑ "Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ". Голос України (in Ukrainian). 2020-07-18. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
- ↑ "Нові райони: карти + склад" (in Ukrainian). Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України.
- ↑ "Ukraine-Russia conflict: First pictures from ground zero". WION. Retrieved 2022-08-10.
- ↑ "Institute for the Study of War". Institute for the Study of War. Archived from the original on 2022-05-08. Retrieved 2025-03-09.
- ↑ "Что изменится в Украине с 1 января". glavnoe.in.ua (in Russian). 1 January 2024.
- ↑ "Рідні мови в об'єднаних територіальних громадах України".