Mahdalynivka (; ) is a

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. It hosts the administration of Mahdalynivka settlement hromada, one of the

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s of Ukraine. Population:

Description

Mahdalynivka is located on the Chaplynka River, a left tributary of the

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. Relief around the settlement is plain with unnoticed change in elevations since it is located in Dnieper Lowlands. Mahdalynivka is first mentioned under its current name in 1783 in connection with delimitation of lands of the former

Zaporizhian Sich The Zaporozhian Sich (, , ; also ) was a semi-autonomous polity and proto-state of Zaporozhian Cossacks that existed between the 16th to 18th centuries, for the latter part of that period as an autonomous stratocratic state within the Cossa ...

(Zaporizhia Free Lands).Ihor Kocherhin.
Mahdalynivka: establishment and beginning of development (Магдалинівка: заснування і початки розвитку)
'. "DniproKultura" Portal by Dnipropetrovsk Oblast versatile scientific library. 14 January 2019 According to " History of cities and villages of the Ukrainian SSR", the start of the settlement was given by 4 families who arrived from Poltava region (at that time

Poltava Governorate Poltava Governorate was an administrative-territorial unit (''guberniya'') of the Russian Empire. It was officially created in 1802 from the disbanded Little Russia Governorate (1796–1802), Little Russia Governorate and had its capital in Polt ...

). Mahdalynivka appeared on territory that during times of Zaporizhian Sich belonged to Provtocha Palanka, a territorial subdivision of Zaporizhian Sich. Researcher of regional studies L.M.Bezuhlyi in his book "Krai Mahdalynivskyi" (Land of Mahdalynivka) and authors of an essay "Mahdalynivshchyna" as the year of establishment of the village consider 1778. Such conclusion was made by them based on information that was provided by notable genealogist Vadym Modzalevskyi (a co-author of

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) and a data from "Mezhevaya kniga Azovskoi Gubernii" (Azov Governorate surveying book). Until the

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was abolished on 18 July 2020, Mahdalynivka was the administrative center of

Mahdalynivka Raion Mahdalynivka Raion () was a raion (district) of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, southeastern-central Ukraine. Its administrative centre was located at the urban-type settlement of Mahdalynivka. The raion was abolished on 18 July 2020 as part of the admini ...

. After that date, it was transferred to Novomoskovsk Raion (later renamed

). Until 26 January 2024, Mahdalynivka was designated

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. On this day, a new law entered into force which abolished this status, and Mahdalynivka became a rural settlement.

Economy

Transportation

Mahdalynivka is connected by roads with

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and Petrykivka (with further access over the bridge to

Kamianske Kamianske (, ; ), previously known as Dniprodzerzhynsk from 1936 to 2016, is an industrial city in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine, and a port on the Dnieper, Dnieper River. It serves as the administrative center of Kamianske Raion and Kamianske ...

). There are local roads as well. Distance between Mahdalynivka and Dnipro is . Suburban 10137 Dnipro - Mahdalynivka
/ref> The closest railway station is in Hubynykha, about east of Mahdalynivka, on the railway line connecting

and

Kharkiv Kharkiv, also known as Kharkov, is the second-largest List of cities in Ukraine, city in Ukraine.

Industry

* Mahdalynivka butter plant; * Brick factory; * Bakery plant; * Municipal company; * Private agricultural companies.

References

External links

* Kulakov, D.T., Kulykovskyi, B.H.
Mahdalynivka, Mahdalynivka Raion, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (Магдалинівка, Магдалинівський район, Дніпропетровська область)
'. History of cities and villages of the Ukrainian SSR {{Authority control Rural settlements in Samar Raion