Kremenchuk
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Kremenchuk
Кременчук | |
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City | |
UTC+3 (EEST) | |
Postcode district(s) | 39600-39689[1] |
Area code | 5366[2] |
Vehicle registration | BI[3] |
Website | www |
Kremenchuk (
Although not as large as some other oblast centers, Kremenchuk has a large industrial center in Ukraine and Eastern Europe. A
Originally established on the left bank, Kremenchuk eventually incorporated the city of Kriukiv on the right bank. The Kriukiv Railway Car Building Works is one of the oldest railway-repair and rail-car-building factories in Eastern Europe, dating from 1869.[7]
Kremenchuk's Ukrtatnafta oil refinery is the largest in Ukraine and for a while was the only one operating since the beginning of the conflict with Russia that left refineries in the Donbas inactive. Because of Russian attacks during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the refinery was out of operation in 2022.[8]
History
Kremenchuk was founded in 1571 as a fortress.[9][10] The name Kremenchuk is explained as deriving from the word "kremen" - flint (a mineral) because the city is located on a giant chert plate. An alternative explanation says that "Kremenchuk" is the Turkish for "small fortress".[citation needed]
In 1625, at
Following defeat in the Crimean War began the installation of a network of railroads in Russia, and in 1869 in Kryukiv were built small railcar repair shops, while in 1872 the city of Kriukiv was connected with Kremenchuk by a railroad bridge over the Dnieper. In 1870 in Kremenchuk a factory was built that produced and maintained agrarian equipment and iron cast products. In 1899 a network of tramway transportation was introduced in Kremenchuk that existed until the complete establishment of Soviet regime in Ukraine in 1921.
During the Russian February Revolution of 1917, power in the city was controlled by a council (soviet) of workers' deputies which was dominated by the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party and the head of the city council was the future Ukrainian Communist leader Yuriy Lapchynskyi . During the Ukrainian–Soviet War, on 26 January 1918, Russian Bolshevik troops secured the city, however already in February of the same year they had to withdraw due to the treaty of Brest-Litovsk and advance of German and Ukrainian armies. Following the World War I hostilities between the Bolshevik Russia and Ukraine renewed and on 1 February 1919 the Russian Red Army once again secured the city. However, in May of the same year Kremechuk was engulfed in the insurgency of Otaman Grigoriev who earlier sided with Bolsheviks and drove the international force of Triple Entante from Odesa. From July to December 1919 the city was occupied by the Russian "White Guard" troops of Anton Denikin. Following their withdrawal, the Denikin's troops blew up the railroad bridge.
In 1920–1922, the city was the administrative center of the short-lived Kremenchuk Governorate during a peasant insurgency (Kholodnyi Yar) near Chyhyryn (just west of the city). During the 1930s, Kremenchuk's industry was transformed, its Kriukiv railcar repair shops became a railcar manufacturing factory, while its factory in production of agrarian equipment changed to manufacturing road equipment.
During
During the Cold War, Kremenchuk became the headquarters for the 43rd Rocket Division of the 43rd Army of the Soviet
In 1975 the city of Kryukiv was merged with Kremenchuk, while Kremenchuk was divided in two raions in city.
In 2014 during the mass demolition of monuments to Vladimir Lenin in Ukraine, in the city were removed two monuments of the Russian Communist leader in the city center and near the Kryukiv Railcar Factory.
During the 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine security at the Kremenchuk Reservoir was heightened as it was seen as a possible target for saboteurs.[15]
Until 18 July 2020, Kremenchuk was designated as a city of oblast significance and did not belong to Kremenchuk Raion even though it was the center of the raion. As part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Poltava Oblast to four, the city was merged into Kremenchuk Raion.[16][17]
During the
Jewish community and Holocaust
Jews initially began to settle in the city in 1782, and by 1801, there were 454 registered taxpayers in Kremenchuk. As a result of Jewish emigration from further north in the Pale of Settlement, many Jews from northern provinces settled in the city in the mid-19th century. The community had grown sevenfold within a half decade to 3,475 by 1847.[22] The 1897 All-Russia Census recorded the Jewish population of Kremenchuk at 29,768, or at 47% of the total population.[23] Growth of the city's Jewish population stagnated, still hovering at 28,969 by 1926, around 50% of the population, later heavily falling to 19,880 by 1939.
Nazi forces occupied Kremenchuk on September 9, 1941, setting restrictions on Jewish purchases and forcing them to wear the Yellow Star of Jude. On September 27, 1941, they were exiled from the city, and forced to move into the Ghetto in Novo-Ivanovka.[uk][22] Many Jews who hid throughout the city were later caught and forced into the Ghettos as well. Between October 1941 and January 1942, a total of around 8,000 Jews were shot and killed in various instances of execution over the months, although the community was not entirely wiped out. The Ghetto and town were liberated September 29th, 1943 by the Red Army.[24] A Jewish community of over 5,000 remained in the city throughout the 1950s, although dwindled in the 1990s during migration to Israel.[22]
There are a few Jewish cemeteries from different parts of the 20th century in the area, with the last burials having occurred in Jewish Cemetery II in the 1990s.[25]
Population
Language
Distribution of the population by native language according to the 2001 census:[26]
Language | Percentage |
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Ukrainian | 75.48% |
Russian | 23.94% |
other/undecided | 0.58% |
Economy
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Kremenchuk is the economic center of the Poltava Oblast and one of the leading industrial centers of Ukraine. As of 2005[update], it contributed about 7 percent of the national economy and accounted for more than 50 percent of the industrial output in Poltava Oblast.[citation needed] The city is home to KrAZ, a truck-manufacturing company (one of the largest in Eastern Europe) as well as a major European oil refinery operated by Ukrtatnafta, the road-making machine works, Kremenchuk Automobile Assembly Plant , the Kryukivsky Car Manufacturing Plant, train railway rolling stock wagons, the wheel plant, the carbon black plant, the steel works and others.
The light industries of the city include tobacco (JTI), confectionery (Roshen), a knitting factory as well as milk and meat processing plants.
Kremenchuk is one of the most important railway junctions in Central Ukraine (thanks to its geographical position and a bridge over the Dnieper River) and a major river port on the main river of Ukraine.
Sport
Kremenchuk is home to
Beside FC Kremin, the city was also represented by number of other professional football clubs such as FC Adoms Kremenchuk, FC Naftokhimik Kremenchuk, and FC Vahonobudivnyk Kremenchuk.
The city has several sports schools, about six stadiums including Polytechnic Stadium (main city stadium), Kremin Stadium, and others, as well as couple of swimming pools and couple of athletic halls.
Gallery
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Former State Bank building
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Former zemstvo residence
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Churkin house
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Rabinovich house
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Historical building in Kremenchuk
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Former Bryansk regiment barracks
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Stalinist architecture in the city centre
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City Hall
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TV company office building
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A park in Kremenchuk
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Poltava railway department in Kremenchuk
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Sunset at Kremenchuk Reservoir
Notable people
- Fedor Opanasovich Chaika, great-grandfather of the composer Tchaikovsky[29][circular reference]
- Sobibor uprising[citation needed]
- Emmanuel Mané-Katz, artist[citation needed]
- Leo Ornstein, composer and pianist[citation needed]
- Avraham Shlonsky, Israeli poet and editor[citation needed]
- Dimitri Tiomkin, film composer[30]
- Anton Makarenko, educator, social worker and writer.[citation needed]
- Sergey Vashchenko, Balalaika virtuoso and conductor[citation needed]
- Vyacheslav Senchenko, World welterweight boxing champion[citation needed]
- Charles David Spivak, founder of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society
- Yehoshua Hankin, Zionist pioneer
Twin towns – sister cities
Kremenchuk is
- Svishtov, Bulgaria
- Wenzhou, China
- Bydgoszcz, Poland
- Berdiansk, Ukraine
- Bila Tserkva, Ukraine
- Kolomyia, Ukraine
- Jiayuguan, China
- Alytus, Lithuania
- Sidoarjo, Indonesia
- Michalovce, Slovakia
- Snina, Slovakia
- Providence, Rhode Island, United States
- Bitola, North Macedonia
- Rishon LeZion, Israel
See also
- Kremenchuk University
- Kremenchuk River Port
- Kremenchuk Steel Works
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- ^ "Кременчугская городская 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.
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- ^ a b "Occupying forces bomb the Kremenchuk Oil Refinery again: four "strikes"", Yahoo News, 12 May 2022
- ^ Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Aug. 2010, Kremenchuk. Accessed 27 June 2022.
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- ^ a b c "Kremenchug". www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org. Retrieved 2023-05-24.
- ^ "Community Finder - Kremenchuk". Jewishgen.org. Retrieved 24 May 2023.
- ^ "Untold Stories - Kremenchug". Yad Vashem. Retrieved 24 May 2023.
- ^ "KREMENCHUG | Ukraine | International Jewish Cemetery Project". IAJGS Cemetery Project. Retrieved 2023-05-24.
- ^ "Рідні мови в об'єднаних територіальних громадах України".
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- ^ "Dimitri Tiomkin biography". dimitritiomkin.com. Retrieved 2012-12-29.
- ^ "Sister cities of Kremenchuk". www.kremen.gov.ua (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on February 25, 2022.
External links
- (in Ukrainian) Official homepage of Kremenchuk
- (in Ukrainian and English) Today's photo of Kremenchuk
- Soviet topographic map 1:100,000
- The murder of the Jews of Kremenchuk during World War II, at Yad Vashem website.