Horlivka
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| Horlivka Горлівка |
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 Horlivka
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| Coordinates: 48°18′N 38°3′E / 48.3°N 38.05°ECoordinates: 48°18′N 38°3′E / 48.3°N 38.05°E | |||
| Country Oblast Raion |
Ukraine Donetsk Oblast Municipality |
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| • Total | 422 km2 (162.9 sq mi) | ||
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| • Total | 289,872 | ||
| • Density | 686.9/km2 (1,779.1/sq mi) | ||
Horlivka (Ukrainian: Горлівка Ukrainian pronunciation: [ˈɦɔrliu̯kɑ]; (Russian: Горловка, Gorlovka) is a city in the Donetsk Oblast (province) of eastern Ukraine. As of 2001, the city's population was 292,000. It is a coal mining and chemical industry centre. Gorlovka State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages has a two building campus in the center of town.
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[edit] History
The settlement was founded by Pyotr Gorlov in 1867, though it was little more than a series of mining camps until its rapid expansion in the 1930s.
During the Russian Revolution of 1905, it was the scene of an armed uprising.
In recent years many mines have closed, and the city's population fell by more than ten percent during the 1990s.
[edit] Famous people from Horlivka
- Alexander Volkov, Soviet-Russian cosmonaut
- Arkady Shevchenko, Soviet defector
- Nikolai Kapustin, Russian composer and pianist
- Ruslan Ponomariov, Ukrainian chess player
- Serhiy Rebrov, Ukrainian footballer
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[edit] Twin towns — Sister cities
Horlivka is twinned with:
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| Barnsley |  United Kingdom |
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| Pensacola, Florida |  United States |
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| Buffalo, New York | United States |
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