Sofiivka ( uk, Софіївка; russian: Софиевка) is an

urban-type settlement Urban-type settlementrussian: посёлок городско́го ти́па, translit=posyolok gorodskogo tipa, abbreviated: russian: п.г.т., translit=p.g.t.; ua, селище міського типу, translit=selyshche mis'koho typu, ab ...

Kryvyi Rih Kryvyi Rih ( uk, Криви́й Ріг , lit. "Curved Bend" or "Crooked Horn"), also known as Krivoy Rog (Russian: Кривой Рог) is the largest city in central Ukraine, the 7th most populous city in Ukraine and the 2nd largest by area. Kr ...

Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Dnipropetrovsk Oblast ( uk, Дніпропетро́вська о́бласть, translit=Dnipropetrovska oblast), also referred to as Dnipropetrovshchyna ( uk, Дніпропетро́вщина), is an administrative divisions of Ukraine, obla ...

Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...

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

hromada A hromada ( uk, територіальна громада, lit=territorial community, translit=terytorialna hromada) is a basic unit of administrative division in Ukraine, similar to a municipality. It was established by the Government of Ukra ...

s of Ukraine. Population: Sofiivka is located on the banks of the

Kamianka river Kamianka ( uk, Кам'янка) may refer to: Ukraine Populated places Cities * Kamianka, Cherkasy Oblast, a city in Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine. * Kamianka-Buzka, a city in Lviv Oblast, Ukraine * Kamianka-Dniprovska, a city in Zaporizhia Oblast, Ukr ...

, a right tributary of the

Bazavluk The Bazavluk () is a river in Ukraine and a right tributary of the Dnieper } The Dnieper () or Dnipro (); , ; . is one of the major transboundary rivers of Europe, rising in the Valdai Hills near Smolensk, Russia, before flowing through ...

in the basin of the

Dnieper } The Dnieper () or 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. It is the longest river of Ukraine and B ...

. Until 18 July 2020, Sofiivka was the administrative center of

Sofiivka Raion Sofiivka Raion ( uk, Софіївський район) was a raion (district) of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, southeastern-central Ukraine. Its administrative centre was located at the urban-type settlement of Sofiivka. The raion was abolished on 18 Ju ...

. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast to seven. The area of Sofiivka Raion was merged into Kryvyi Rih Raion.

Economy

Transportation

Sofiivka is on the H11 highway which connects

Dnipro Dnipro, previously called Dnipropetrovsk from 1926 until May 2016, is Ukraine's fourth-largest city, with about one million inhabitants. It is located in the eastern part of Ukraine, southeast of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on the Dnieper Rive ...

and

. It also have road access to

Apostolove Apostolove ( , russian: Апо́столово) is a city in Kryvyi Rih Raion, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (province) of Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Apostolove urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population: In 2001, the populat ...

in the south and

Piatykhatky Piatykhatky ( uk, П'ятихатки) can refer to * Piatykhatky, a city in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast * Piatykhatky, a historic neighborhood in Kharkiv Kharkiv ( uk, wikt:Харків, Ха́рків, ), also known as Kharkov (russian: Хар ...

in the north. The closest railway station is in Devladove, about northwest of Sofiivka, on the railway connecting Dnipro and Kryvyi Rih.

References

{{Authority control Urban-type settlements in Kryvyi Rih Raion Yekaterinoslav Governorate