Novovolynsk (, ) is a

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Volyn Oblast Volyn Oblast () or simply Volyn (), is an administrative divisions of Ukraine, oblast (province) in northwestern Ukraine. It borders Rivne Oblast to the east, Lviv Oblast to the south, Poland to the west and Belarus to the north. Its Capital city ...

, Ukraine. Novovolynsk, together with the rural settlement of Blahodatne and six villages, is incorporated into Novovolynsk urban hromada. Population: Located within the Lviv-Volyn coal basin until recently, Novovolynsk was a major coal mining center of the region. The city has a few factories: a ferroconcrete plant, brickworks, a plant for mining equipment maintenance, a meatpacking and bread factory, and a woodworking plant.

History

Novovolynsk was built in 1950 as a mining town in the

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. It obtained city status in 1957. The word "Novovolynsk" is a morphological blend, meaning "a new town in the

". There is a monument to a Ukrainian poet and artist

Taras Shevchenko Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko (; ; 9 March 1814 – 10 March 1861) was a Ukrainian poet, writer, artist, public and political figure, folklorist, and ethnographer. He was a fellow of the Imperial Academy of Arts and a member of the Brotherhood o ...

in Novovolynsk.

Geography

Novovolynsk is situated in the southwest of

in the far north-west of Ukraine. The city area is about 17 square kilometers. The state border to Poland runs 15 km to the West from the city; 92 km to the North from Novovolynsk there is the state border to Belarus. The city is well-situated. The distance to the national highway H22 Ustyluh – Lutsk – Rivne is only 18 km. The distance to the international highway E373 (coincides with national M07) Warsaw – Lublin – Kovel – Sarny – Korosten – Kyiv is only 76 km.

Notable people

Artem Fedetskyi Artem Andriyovych Fedetskyi (; born 26 April 1985) is a former Ukrainian football right defender. Biography Fedetskyi was born in a mining city of Novovolynsk, near the border with Poland, in a footballer family. He finished his 10th grad ...

(born 1985), footballer

Twin towns – sister cities

Novovolynsk is twinned with: *

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Gallery

File:Нововолинськ.JPG, Central square File:Нововолинськ, 2022, 03.jpg File:Нововолинськ, 2021, 02.jpg File:Стадіон спортивно-оздоровчого комплексу Шахтар, Нововолинськ.jpg, Stadium File:Clay quarry (800x600).jpg, Old clay quarry

References

Sources

Олександр Цинкаловський. Стара Волинь і Волинське Полісся. Краєзнавчий словник — від найдавніших часів до 1914 року
– V. 1.

External links

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Information portal of Novovolynsk

Novovolynsk, Google maps
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