Vilcha, Kharkiv Oblast
Vilcha Вільча | |||
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Vilcha Location of Vilcha in Ukraine | |||
Coordinates: 50°14′41″N 36°56′29″E / 50.24472°N 36.94139°ECoordinates: 50°14′41″N 36°56′29″E / 50.24472°N 36.94139°E | |||
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Founded | 1993[1] | ||
Government | |||
• Mayor | Mykola Lirskyj | ||
Area[1] | |||
• Land | 3.68 km2 (1.42 sq mi) | ||
Population (2001) | |||
• Total | 1,658 | ||
• Density | 451/km2 (1,170/sq mi) | ||
Postal code | 62507[1] | ||
Area code(s) | +380 5741 |
Vilcha (Ukrainian: Вільча, Russian: Вильча) is a Ukrainian urban-type settlement in Vovchansk Raion, Kharkiv Oblast.[1] Population: 1,748 (2017 est.)[2]
History
The town, sometimes named New Vilcha, was founded in 1993,[1] when the 2,000 residents of the Old Vilcha (709 km far, in Kiev Oblast), located 45 km from the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, moved here in the period 1993-1996. Immediately after the accident of 1986, the "Exclusion Zone" was recognized only in the area within a radius of 30 km from the nuclear plant.[3]
Geography
Located 6 km south of Vovchansk, and not too far from the borders with the Russian Oblast of Belgorod; Vilcha it is served by the provincial highway T2104, and by Harbuzivka railway station, on Belgorod-Kupiansk line.[4] The town is 20 km far from Bilyi Kolodiaz, 26 from Staryi Saltiv, 52 from Velykyi Burluk, 56 from Belgorod and 71 from Kharkiv.
See also
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 (in Ukrainian) Vilcha on Verkhovna Rada website
- ↑ "Чисельність наявного населення України (Actual population of Ukraine)" (in Ukrainian). State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Retrieved 26 August 2017.
- ↑ (in Ukrainian) "The anniversary of the Chernobyl accident: "live" and "dead" villages of Vilcha"
- ↑ 168175776 Vilcha on OpenStreetMap