Zatyshshia

Zatyshshia
Затишшя
Zatyshshia

Location in Ukraine

Coordinates: 47°20′7″N 29°52′15″E / 47.33528°N 29.87083°E / 47.33528; 29.87083Coordinates: 47°20′7″N 29°52′15″E / 47.33528°N 29.87083°E / 47.33528; 29.87083
Country  Ukraine
Oblast  Odessa Oblast
Raion Frunzivka Raion
Founded 1865
Area
  Total 3.83 km2 (1.48 sq mi)
Population (2011)
  Total 3,470
  Density 910/km2 (2,300/sq mi)
Time zone +2 (UTC+3)
Postal code 66740
Area code(s) +380 4860
House of culture

Zatyshshia, translated as "Calm" (Ukrainian: Затишшя; Russian: Затишье) is a town in the Frunzivka Raion of the Odessa Oblast in Ukraine.

The town has a railway station on the line OdessaKyiv (stretch RozdilnaKotovsk).

The population was 3,542 in 2004 (5,683 in 1964).

On the territory of civil township, except Zatyshshia, yet eight villages are also located:

  • Andrusova (Андрусова)
  • Druzhelubivka (Дружелюбівка)
  • Hederymove Pershe (Гедеримове Перше)
  • Krasnopil' (Краснопіль)
  • Nova Hryhorivka (Нова Григорівка)
  • Skyneshory (Скинешори)
  • Vesela Balka (Весела Балка)
  • Zahir'ya(Загір'я).

The distance to Odessa is 72 miles, to Chișinău it is 53 miles.

History

Near the town are the remains of a late Paleolithic (40—13 thousands years ago) settlement, and burial mound from the Bronze Age (2nd millennium BC).

Old house

The town of Zatyshshia was founded in 1865, as a railway station, together with opening of the first railway in Ukraine, the OdessaBalta.

In the autumn of 1919, during the Russian Civil War, the White Army and the army of the Ukrainian People's Republic collided here.

School

References

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