Kobeliaky (, ) is a

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in Poltava Raion,

Poltava Oblast Poltava Oblast (), also referred to as Poltavshchyna (), is an administrative divisions of Ukraine, oblast (province) of central Ukraine. The capital city, administrative center of the oblast is the city of Poltava. Most of its territory was par ...

, Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Kobeliaky urban hromada, one of the

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s of Ukraine. Population:

History

During

World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

, Kobeliaky was under German occupation from 15 September 1941 until 25 September 1943. Until 18 July 2020, Kobeliaky was the administrative center of Kobeliaky Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Poltava Oblast to four. The area of Kobeliaky Raion was merged into Poltava Raion.

Population

Language

Distribution of the population by native language according to the 2001 census:

Geography

Climate

Notable people

* Nikolai Timofeyevich Gres (1920–2003), soloist with the

Bolshoi Theatre The Bolshoi Theatre ( rus, Большо́й теа́тр, r=Bol'shoy teatr, p=bɐlʲˈʂoj tʲɪˈat(ə)r, t=Grand Theater) is a historic opera house in Moscow, Russia, originally designed by architect Joseph Bové. Before the October Revolutio ...

and the Alexandrov Ensemble * Alexander Davydov (1872–1944), opera singer * Alexey Ivakhnenko (1913–2007), academician, mathematician * Hryhory Kytasty (1907–1984), composer, conductor * Georgy Prokopenko (1937–2021), swimmer * Osip Rabinovich (1817–1869), writer * (1886–1973), actor * Myroslav Kuvaldin (born 1975), singer and founder of the band The VYO (born in Kamianske) * (born 1974), musician, founder and guitarist of the band The VYO

Gallery

File:Kobeliaky bank.JPG, Historical building in Kobeliaky File:SAM 2995Кобеляки.JPG, Bus station File:SAM 2996Кобеляки1.JPG, Shops in Kobeliaky File:Seal Kobeliali Pikeman Regiment 1795.png, Seal of Kobeliaky Company of the Dnieper Pikeman Regiment (Russian Empire) File:Stepan Shkurat.JPG, People's Actor of Ukraine Stepan Shkurat (from film "Chapayev", 1934)

References

External links

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Photogallery of the Kobeliaky city

History of Kobeliaky city (in Ukrainian language)

The murder of the Jews of Kobeliaky
during

, at

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