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Pidstepne
Pidstepne () is a village in southern Ukraine, located in Oleshky urban hromada, Kherson Raion, Kherson Oblast. The village was captured by Russian forces during the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. On the night of 17–18 October 2023, it was reported by Russian sources that Ukrainian forces, in a raid across the Dnipro river The Dnieper or Dnepr ( ), also called Dnipro ( ), is one of the major transboundary rivers of Europe, rising in the Valdai Hills near Smolensk, Russia, before flowing through Belarus and Ukraine to the Black Sea. Approximately long, with ..., had either captured or partially captured Pidstepne along with a couple other villages. References Villages in Kherson Raion Oleshky urban hromada {{Kherson-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oleshky Urban Hromada
Oleshky urban hromada () is a hromada (community) of Ukraine, in Kherson Raion, Kherson Oblast. Its administrative center is the city Oleshky. Extent and settlements Its area is and its population is 38,313 people, as of 2020. It includes the city of Oleshky, the villages Kozachi Laheri, Kostohryzove, Krynky, Pidstepne, Pishchanivka, Pody, Radensk, Sahy, Solontsi, and the rural settlements and Poima. History Oleshky urban hromada was created in 2020 in accordance with an edict by the Ukrainian government determining the territories of hromadas in the Kherson region, by uniting the Oleshky city municipality with various village councils in what was then Oleshky Raion. Russian invasion of Ukraine Starting in late February 2022, the hromada came under Russian occupation during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. According to then-hromada head Yevhen Ryshchuk, all of the hromada officials refused to collaborate with the occupation regime. Ryshchuk, in an interview, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pishchanivka
Pishchanivka () is a village in Kherson Raion, Kherson Oblast in southern Ukraine. It belongs to Oleshky urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Before 1955, it was part of the village Pidstepne. Geography It is located about southeast of the riverbank of the Dnipro. History Pishchanivka was captured by Russian forces during the Russian invasion of Ukraine that began in 2022. Early on 18 October 2023, it was reported that Ukrainian forces had reached the village during an incursion during the Dnipro campaign. Demographics In 2001 the settlement had 582 inhabitants, native language as of the Ukrainian Census of 2001: * Ukrainian – 95.02% *Russian – 4.30% *Belarusian – 0.34% *Romanian Romanian may refer to: *anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Romania **Romanians, an ethnic group **Romanian language, a Romance language ***Romanian dialects, variants of the Romanian language **Romanian cuisine, traditional ... (as " Moldovan") – 0.17% ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Village
A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighborhoods. Villages are normally permanent, with fixed dwellings; however, transient villages can occur. Further, the dwellings of a village are fairly close to one another, not scattered broadly over the landscape, as a dispersed settlement. In the past, villages were a usual form of community for societies that practice subsistence agriculture and also for some non-agricultural societies. In Great Britain, a hamlet earned the right to be called a village when it built a church.-4; we might wonder whether there's a point at which it's appropriate to talk of the beginnings of French, that is, when it wa ... ''village'', from Latin ''villāticus'', ultimately from Latin ''villa'' (English ''vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Invasion Of Ukraine
On 24 February 2022, , starting the largest and deadliest war in Europe since World War II, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, conflict between the two countries which began in 2014. The fighting has caused hundreds of thousands of Casualties of the Russo-Ukrainian War, military casualties and tens of thousands of Ukrainian Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, civilian casualties. As of 2025, Russian troops Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine, occupy about 20% of Ukraine. From a population of 41 million, about 8 million Ukrainians had been internally displaced and more than 8.2 million Ukrainian refugee crisis, had fled the country by April 2023, creating Europe's List of largest refugee crises, largest refugee crisis since World War II. In late 2021, Russia Prelude to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, massed troops near Ukraine's borders and December 2021 Russian ultimatum to NATO, issued demands to the Western world, West i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kherson
Kherson (Ukrainian language, Ukrainian and , , ) is a port city in southern Ukraine that serves as the administrative centre of Kherson Oblast. Located by the Black Sea and on the Dnieper, Dnieper River, Kherson is the home to a major ship-building industry and is a regional economic centre. At the beginning of 2022, its population was estimated at 279,131. From March to November 2022, the city was Russian occupation of Kherson Oblast, occupied by Russian forces during their Russian invasion of Ukraine, invasion of Ukraine. Armed forces of Ukraine, Ukrainian forces Liberation of Kherson, recaptured the city on 11 November 2022. In June 2023, the city was flooded following the Russian Destruction of the Kakhovka Dam, destruction of the nearby Kakhovka Dam. Etymology As the first new settlement in the Greek Plan, "Greek project" of Catherine the Great, Empress Catherine and her favourite Grigory Potemkin, it was named after the Heraclea Pontica, Heraclea Pontic colony of Cherson ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poima
Zaplava (), known in 2016–2024 as Poima () and before 2016 as Tsiurupynsk (), is a rural-type settlement in Ukraine, located in Oleshky urban hromada, Kherson Raion, Kherson Oblast. History In accordance with decommunization laws in Ukraine, Tsiurupynsk was renamed to Poima by the Ukrainian parliament in 2016. The previous name, Tsiurupynsk, was given in honour of former CPSU Central Committee member and Gosplan chairman Alexander Tsiurupa, born in nearby Oleshky. During the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, it was occupied by Russia. On 23 September 2023, the administration of Oleshky urban hromada began discussions on renaming Poima to Zaplava. This was as a result of a decision by the on 22 June, determining that the name of the settlement was not in line with state language standards, as it was a transliteration from Russian. Zaplava is the native Ukrainian equivalent of Poima. Poima was one of 43 settlements in Kherson Oblast recommended to be renamed in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Institute For The Study Of War
The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) is an American nonprofit research group and advocacy think tank founded in 2007 by military historian Kimberly Kagan and headquartered in Washington, D.C. ISW provides research and analysis of modern armed conflicts and foreign affairs. It has produced reports on the Syrian civil war, the War in Afghanistan, and the Iraq War, "focusing on military operations, enemy threats, and political trends in diverse conflict zones". ISW currently publishes daily updates on the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the Gaza war. ISW also published daily updates on Mahsa Amini protests in Iran. ISW was founded in response to the stagnation of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and core funding to the group is provided by US military contractors. Political stance and influence Journalists for ''Politico'', ''Time'', ''Wired'', ''Vox'' and ''The Guardian'' have described the group's orientation as " hawkish", while writers for NPR described its position as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
State Statistics Service Of Ukraine
State Statistics Committee of Ukraine (, ''Derzhavnyi Komitet Statystyky Ukrainy'') is the government agency responsible for collection and dissemination of statistics in Ukraine. For brevity, it was also referred to as ''Derzhkomstat''. In 2010, the committee was transformed into the State Service of Statistics under the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade. Institutions *Science and Research Institute of Statistics, keeps track of the Classification of objects of the administrative-territorial system of Ukraine See also *Ukrainian Census (2001), Censuses in Ukraine External links Official website (Ukrainian, Russian, English) (''Ukrainian'') |
Dnipro River
The Dnieper or Dnepr ( ), also called Dnipro ( ), is one of the major transboundary rivers of Europe, rising in the Valdai Hills near Smolensk, Russia, before flowing through Belarus and Ukraine to the Black Sea. Approximately long, with a drainage basin of , it is the longest river of Ukraine and Belarus and the fourth- longest river in Europe, after the Volga, Danube, and Ural rivers. In antiquity, the river was part of the Amber Road trade routes. During the Ruin in the later 17th century, the area was contested between the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Russia, dividing what is now Ukraine into areas described by its right and left banks. During the Soviet period, the river became noted for its major hydroelectric dams and large reservoirs. The 1986 Chernobyl disaster occurred on the Pripyat River, a tributary of the Dnieper, just upstream from its confluence with the Dnieper. The Dnieper is an important navigable waterway for the economy of Ukraine and is conne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the List of European countries by area, second-largest country in Europe after Russia, which Russia–Ukraine border, borders it to the east and northeast. Ukraine also borders Belarus to the north; Poland and Slovakia to the west; Hungary, Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov to the south and southeast. Kyiv is the nation's capital and List of cities in Ukraine, largest city, followed by Kharkiv, Odesa, and Dnipro. Ukraine's official language is Ukrainian language, Ukrainian. Humans have inhabited Ukraine since 32,000 BC. During the Middle Ages, it was the site of early Slavs, early Slavic expansion and later became a key centre of East Slavs, East Slavic culture under the state of Kievan Rus', which emerged in the 9th century. Kievan Rus' became the largest and most powerful realm in Europe in the 10th and 11th centuries, but gradually disintegrated into rival regional powers before being d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Occupation Of Kherson Oblast
The ongoing military occupation of Ukraine's Kherson Oblast () by Russian forces began on 24February 2022, when Russian forces Russian invasion of Ukraine, invaded Ukraine from Crimea. It was administrated under a Russian-controlled military-civilian administration until 30 September 2022, when the Russian government declared it had annexed the territory. Since then it administers it as an unrecognized federal subject of Russia. Russia Battle of Kherson, captured the city of Kherson on 1 March 2022. Kherson was the only regional capital that Russia has managed to capture in the invasion, though the cities of Donetsk and Luhansk had been controlled by Russian people's militias in Ukraine, Russian-backed separatists since 2014. Most of the rest of Kherson Oblast fell to Russian forces in the early months of the invasion. Russia laid the groundwork for annexation in the following months by introducing the Russian ruble as official currency and forcibly removing the hryvnia from ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2001 Ukrainian Census
The 2001 Ukrainian census is to date the only census of the population of independent Ukraine. It was conducted by the State Statistics Committee of Ukraine on 5 December 2001, twelve years after the last Soviet Union census in 1989.In 2021, there will most likely be no all-Ukrainian census - Minister (21 April 2020) The next Ukrainian census was planned to be held in 2011 but has been repeatedly postponed. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
