Kolomak

Kolomak (Ukrainian: Коломак, Russian: Коломак) is an urban-type settlement in Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine. It serves as the administrative center of Kolomak Raion. Population: 2,723 (2020 est.)[1]

Kolomak Коломак
Urban-type settlement
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Kolomak
Coordinates: 49°50′31″N 35°18′29″E
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Kharkiv Oblast
Raion	Kolomak Raion
Population  (2020)
• Total	2,723
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)

Kolomak is located between Poltava and Kharkiv, on both banks of the Kolomak River, a major left tributary of the Vorskla in the drainage basin of the Dnieper.

History

It was a village in Valky uyezd of Kharkov Governorate of the Russian Empire.

During World War II it was under German occupation from October 1941 to September 1943.

In January 1989 the population was 4628 people.[2] In January 2013 the population was 3844 people.[3]

Economy

Transportation

The Highway M03, connecting Kyiv and Kharkiv via Poltava, runs about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) south of Kolonak, and the settlement has an easy access to it. There are local roads as well.

Kolomak railway station, on the Southern railway line connecting Kharkiv and Poltava,[4] is not located in Kolomak but in Shelestove, about 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) west of the settlement. There is a freight dead-end railway line to Kolomak from Vodiana railway station, on the same line connecting Kharkiv and Poltava.

References

1. "Чисельність наявного населення України (Actual population of Ukraine)" (PDF) (in Ukrainian). State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
2. Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989 г. Численность городского населения союзных республик, их территориальных единиц, городских поселений и городских районов по полу
3. Чисельність наявного населення України на 1 січня 2013 року. Державна служба статистики України. Київ, 2013. стор.99
4. Коломак // Большая Советская Энциклопедия. / под ред. А. М. Прохорова. 3-е изд. том 12. М., «Советская энциклопедия», 1973