Karlivka (, ) is a city in

Poltava Raion Poltava Raion () is a raion (district) in Poltava Oblast of central Ukraine. The raion's administrative center is the city of Poltava. Population: On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Poltava ...

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. It hosts the administration of Karlivka urban hromada, one of the

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s of Ukraine. Population:

History

First settlers from the

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of Dnieper arrived on the site of modern Karlivka in the 1670s, founding the settlement of Orchyk, which was part of the first Poltava ''sotnia'' of the

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. In the first quarter of the 18th century, the lands of the Poltava Regiment between the Kolomak and Orchyk rivers were given to the general of the Russian army Johann Bernhard Weissbach. After Weisbach's death in 1735, Karlivka was gifted to

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Minikh, who named the settlement Minikhpol. Before the

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, Karlivka had more than 10,000 inhabitants and was classified as an

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. A hospital, a polyclinic, a high school, and a factory training school operated in the village. Karlivka was granted city status on 13 April 1957. Until 18 July 2020, Karlivka was the administrative center of Karlivka Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of

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s of Poltava Oblast to four. The area of Karlivka Raion was merged into Poltava Raion.

Economics

The economy of the city dominated by industrial and agricultural production. A number of industrial enterprises operates in the city, including , a mechanical factory, an alcohol plant, a furniture factory, a bakery, oil and gas deep drilling management expedition, a number of farms, ATP-15340 motor transport enterprise, and 4 repair and construction companies. Karlivsky Sugar Factory ceased operations in 2014 and was judicially liquidated in 2017. In April 2019, the construction of a cooperative factory of the Association of Milk Producers began, with 10 participants being the founders, and it is planned to be put into operation at the end of 2021. The first stage of the plant will allow processing approximately 500 tons of extra-class milk daily. Further capacity of the plant will be increased to 1000 tons.

Gallery

File:Karlivka2.jpg, Central part of Karlivka File:Karlivka3.jpg, A residental street in Karlivka File:Проходная машбуд - panoramio.jpg, Karlivka Machine-Building Plant File:Ukr Poltobl Karliwka Monument Shevchenko 1 2019 (SU-HS).jpg, Monument to Taras Shevchenko File:Ukr Poltobl Karliwka Mysk Rada 1 2019 (SU-HS).jpg, City Council File:Дорожный знак "Карловка".jpg, Welcome sign on the entrance to the city File:Ukr Poltobl Karliwka Building 1 2019 (SU-HS).jpg, House of Culture File:ЕПЛ9Т-015 на станції Карлівка.jpg, Railway station File:М.Карлівка Полтавська область, Карлівська гімназія імені Ніни Герасименко.jpg, Nina Herasimenko Lyceum File:Karlivka Mashynobudivnyk Stadium.jpg, Mashynobudivnyk Stadium

Education

* Karlivka Nina Herasimenko Lyceum * School №1 * School №3 * School №4 * House of children's and youth creativity * School of Arts * Karlivka Vocational School * Central District Hospital * House of Culture * Museum

Notable people

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(1898–1976), Soviet Ukrainian agrobiologist, promoter of the

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agricultural and heritability of acquired characteristics theories termed

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, which was official Soviet policy *

Nikolai Podgorny Nikolai Viktorovich Podgorny ( – 12 January 1983) was a Soviet statesman who served as the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, the head of state of the Soviet Union, from 1965 to 1977. Podgorny was born to a Ukrainian working-c ...

(1903–1983), Soviet politician, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (1965–1977) *

Mikhail Krichevsky Mikhail Yefimovich Krichevsky (, ; 25 February 1897 – 26 December 2008) was a History of the Jews in Ukraine, Jewish-Ukrainian supercentenarian and the last surviving World War I veteran who fought for the Russian Empire. Career Krichevsky wa ...

(1897–2008), last surviving Russian Army veteran of the First World War

References