Chornomorsk
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Chornomorsk
Чорноморськ | |
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![]() Myru Avenue - one of the main streets of the city | |
UTC+3 (EEST) | |
Postal code | 68000—68090 |
Area code | +380 4868 |
Climate | Cfb |
Website | cmr.gov.ua |
Chornomorsk (Ukrainian: Чорноморськ, pronounced [t͡ʃornoˈmɔrsʲk] ), formerly Illichivsk (Ukrainian: Іллічівськ), is a city in Odesa Raion, Odesa Oblast, south-western Ukraine, dependent on the Port of Chornomorsk. It hosts the administration of Chornomorsk urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.[2] The city is located around the Sukhyi Estuary. Its population was given as 57,983 (2022 estimate).[1]
Originally, the city was established as a
Geography
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Chornomorsk is situated on the coast of the Black Sea, 12 miles (20 km) south from Odesa.
History
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Before the construction of a port with a city, the region was the site of a number of unorganized farmsteads and hamlets (
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In 1952 a port was established, and its surrounding territory was urbanized and converted into a city of Illichivsk. The city was
On 15 May 2015
Until 18 July 2020, Chornomorsk was incorporated as a
Demographics
According to the
Ethnicity | Proportion |
Ukrainians | 66.5% |
Russians | 28.5% |
Bulgarians | 1% |
Moldovans, Belarusians, Romanians, and other | 4% |
Economy
Train ferry service to Bulgaria
Chornomorsk was connected by freight train ferry line (426 km) to Varna in Bulgaria in 1978. Four train ferries two Soviet and two Bulgarian ones, named "Hero of Odesa", "Hero of Sevastopol" and "Hero of Schipka", "Hero of Pleven" which could take in three decks a total of 108 two bogie (four axle) Soviet freight cars. In the first ten-year period (1978–1988), these train ferries had transported 1,000,000 freight cars between Illichivsk and Varna. This train ferry service took 17 hours in both directions. The Bulgarians built break of gauge apparatus at Varna which made it possible to change bogies of 24 freight cars in one hour thirty minutes.
Industries
Chornomorsk's economy is largely oriented to the sea. The biggest employer is the Port of Chornomorsk. The headquarters and manufacturing facilities of "Antarctica" (Ukraine's largest fishing company) are located in the city, and other major maritime shipping companies have also chosen to open their offices there.
The city also has a freight railway station. The port is on one of the freight routes of China's proposed Eurasian Land Bridge (part of the "New Silk Road"), which would see an eastern link to China via ferry to Georgia, Azerbaijan and across the Caspian Sea, and a western link by train to western Europe.[7]
International relations
Twin towns – Sister cities
Chornomorsk is
Narva, Estonia
Beyoğlu, Istanbul, Turkey
Maardu, Estonia
Qaradağ raion, Baku, Azerbaijan
Tczew, Poland
Poti, Georgia
Boynton Beach, Florida, United States
Gallery
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Chornomorsk downtown
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Prymorskyi Park
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Night Club
References
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ "Черноморская громада" (in Russian). Портал об'єднаних громад України.
- Ukrayinska Pravda. 15 May 2015(14 April 2015)
Poroshenko signs laws on denouncing Communist, Nazi regimes, Interfax-Ukraine. 15 May 20
Goodbye, Lenin: Ukraine moves to ban communist symbols, BBC News - UNIAN. 4 February 2016.(in Ukrainian). Pravda.com.ua. 4 February 2016. Retrieved 4 February 2016.
"Rada de-communized Artemivsk as well as over a hundred cities and villages" - ^ "Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ" [About the formation and liquidation of districts. Resolution of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine No. 807-IX]. Голос України (in Ukrainian). 18 July 2020. Retrieved 3 October 2020.
- ^ "Нові райони: карти + склад" [New areas: maps + warehouse] (in Ukrainian). Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України. 17 July 2020.
- ^ Dyussembekova, Zhazira (21 January 2016). "Silk Road Renewed With Launch of New Commercial Transit Route". The Astana Times.
External links
Media related to Chornomorsk at Wikimedia Commons