Vilcha, Kharkiv Oblast

Vilcha
Вільча
Urban-type settlement

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Vilcha

Location of Vilcha in Ukraine

Coordinates: 50°14′41″N 36°56′29″E / 50.24472°N 36.94139°E / 50.24472; 36.94139Coordinates: 50°14′41″N 36°56′29″E / 50.24472°N 36.94139°E / 50.24472; 36.94139
Country  Ukraine
Oblast  Kharkiv
Raion Vovchansk
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 town of the Vovchansk Raion, Kharkiv Oblast.[1] As of 2001, it had a population of 1,658.

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.[2]

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.[3] 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. 1 2 3 4 5 (Ukrainian) Vilcha on Verkhovna Rada website
  2. ↑ (Ukrainian) "The anniversary of the Chernobyl accident: "live" and "dead" villages of Vilcha"
  3. ↑ 168175776 Vilcha on OpenStreetMap

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