Shcholkine ( uk, Щолкіне, translit=Shcholkine, ; russian: Щёлкино, translit=Shcholkino; crh, Şçolkino), also commonly known as Shchelkino or Shchyolkino by its Russian name, is a town in the

Lenine Raion Lenine Raion (russian: Ленинский район, uk, Ленінський район, crh, Yedi Quyu rayonı) is one of the 25 regions of the Crimea, Russia. It is located in the eastern part of the peninsula. The population of the distric ...

Crimea Crimea, crh, Къырым, Qırım, grc, Κιμμερία / Ταυρική, translit=Kimmería / Taurikḗ ( ) is a peninsula in Ukraine, on the northern coast of the Black Sea, that has been occupied by Russia since 2014. It has a p ...

. Geographically, Shcholkine is located near the headland of Kazantyp, on a peninsula jutting northward out into the

Sea of Azov The Sea of Azov ( Crimean Tatar: ''Azaq deñizi''; russian: Азовское море, Azovskoye more; uk, Азовське море, Azovs'ke more) is a sea in Eastern Europe connected to the Black Sea by the narrow (about ) Strait of Ker ...

from the Crimean mainland. Population: 11,677 (2001);

History

Shcholkine is named after

Kirill Shchelkin Kirill Ivanovich Shchelkin (russian: Кирилл Иванович Щёлкин ) (17 May 1911 – 8 November 1968) was a Soviet physicist born in Georgia, with armenian origin, the former Soviet program of nuclear weapons who made theoretical ...

, a

Soviet The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...

physicist. Originally the town was constructed in 1978 to house workers of the Crimean Atomic Energy Station ( nuclear power plant). The station was inspected following the

Chernobyl disaster The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the No. 4 nuclear reactor, reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near the city of Pripyat in the north of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Ukrainia ...

of 1986, and was found to be located on a geologically volatile site. Construction of the facility was summarily abandoned. Shcholkine is known for being an increasingly popular

tourist Tourism is travel for pleasure or business; also the theory and practice of touring, the business of attracting, accommodating, and entertaining tourists, and the business of operating tours. The World Tourism Organization defines tourism ...

destination and

dacha A dacha ( rus, дача, p=ˈdatɕə, a=ru-dacha.ogg) is a seasonal or year-round second home, often located in the exurbs of post-Soviet countries, including Russia. A cottage (, ') or shack serving as a family's main or only home, or an out ...

site. Shcholkine's beach has boat and surfboard rental facilities. Nearby Kazantyp is home to several attractions including a local fairground and

paintball Paintball is a competitive team shooting sport in which players eliminate opponents from play by hitting them with spherical dye-filled gelatin capsules called paintballs that break upon impact. Paintballs are usually shot using low-energy ...

competitions. The town itself has a central market, many cafes and stores, and entertainment facilities including a

movie theater A movie theater (American English), cinema (British English), or cinema hall (Indian English), also known as a movie house, picture house, the movies, the pictures, picture theater, the silver screen, the big screen, or simply theater is a ...

and an

internet cafe The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices. It is a ''internetworking, network of networks'' that consists ...

. The town's main attraction is considered to be its beach, a kilometer-long sandbar sandwiched between cliffs jutting out over the Sea of Azov to the south and Kazantyp to the northwest. Between 1993 and 1999 Kazantyp was the site of the KaZantip music festival, which later (2001-2013) moved to the little village of Popivka near

Yevpatoria Yevpatoria ( uk, Євпаторія, Yevpatoriia; russian: Евпатория, Yevpatoriya; crh, , , gr, Ευπατορία) is a city of regional significance in Western Crimea, north of Kalamita Bay. Yevpatoria serves as the administrativ ...

Demographics

The

2001 Ukrainian Census The Ukrainian Census of 2001 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.

recorded the population of Shcholkine as 11,677 persons. Ethnically the population is predominantly

Russian Russian(s) refers to anything related to Russia, including: *Russians (, ''russkiye''), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries *Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and peo ...

Ukrainian Ukrainian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Ukraine * Something relating to Ukrainians, an East Slavic people from Eastern Europe * Something relating to demographics of Ukraine in terms of demography and population of Ukraine * Som ...

, and Crimean Tatar. Major religions can be assumed to include

atheism Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities. Less broadly, atheism is a rejection of the belief that any deities exist. In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there no ...

agnosticism Agnosticism is the view or belief that the existence of God, of the divine or the supernatural is unknown or unknowable. (page 56 in 1967 edition) Another definition provided is the view that "human reason is incapable of providing sufficie ...

Eastern Orthodox Christianity Eastern Orthodoxy, also known as Eastern Orthodox Christianity, is one of the three main branches of Chalcedonian Christianity, alongside Catholicism and Protestantism. Like the Pentarchy of the first millennium, the mainstream (or " canoni ...

, and Islam, although there is only one church in Shcholkine's immediate vicinity. Languages spoken are mostly

and Crimean Tatar; the use of the

Ukrainian language Ukrainian ( uk, украї́нська мо́ва, translit=ukrainska mova, label=native name, ) is an East Slavic language of the Indo-European language family. It is the native language of about 40 million people and the official state lang ...

is mainly restricted to tourists from other regions of Ukraine and on schools. The Crimean census of 2014 recorded the population at 15,450 persons, around 5,000 of which were refugees the Crimean Tatar population mostly fled to mainland Ukraine.

References

External links

Shcholkine
(Russian)

(English) {{Authority control 1978 establishments in Ukraine Cities in Crimea Lenine Raion Cities of district significance in Ukraine Populated places established in 1978 Populated places established in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic