Horlivka
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| Horlivka Горлівка |
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| Country Oblast Raion |
Ukraine Donetsk Oblast Municipality |
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| Area | |||
| - Total | 422 km² (162.9 sq mi) | ||
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| - Total | 289,872 | ||
| - Density | 686.9/km² (1,779.1/sq mi) | ||
"Gorlovka" redirects here. For the Gorlovka meteorite of 1974, see meteorite falls.
Horlivka (Ukrainian: Горлівка; Russian: Горловка) (until the 1996 — 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 center. Horlivka is twinned with Barnsley in England.
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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.
In 1905, it was the scene of an armed uprising.
In recent years many mines have closed, and the city's population reduced by more than 10% 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
[edit] Sister cities
| City | Country | Year of Signing |
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| Barnsley |  England |
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| Pensacola, Florida |  United States |
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| Buffalo, New York | United States |
2007 |
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