Oleshky

Oleshky Цюрупинськ
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Oleshky Location o Oleshky Oleshky Oleshky (Kherson Oblast)
Coordinates: 46°38′0″N 32°35′0″E
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Kherson Oblast
settlement	1784
city	1802
Govrenment
• Heid o Ceety Cooncil	Hanna Vasylivna Grybovska (PR)
Area
• Total	15.7 km2 (6.1 sq mi)
Population  (2004)
• Total	30,300
• Density	1929/km2 (5,000/sq mi)
Postal code	75100
Area code(s)	+380 5542
Website	http://www.oleshki.org.ua/

Oleshky (Ukrainian: Олешки) is a ceety in Kherson Oblast (province) o Ukraine that frae 1928 tae 2016 wis cried Tsiurupynsk. It is the auldest ceety o the oblast an ane o the auldest in the soothren Ukraine. Population o it is 30,123 (2001).

It wis namit efter Alexander Tsiurupa, the umwhile Soviet Trade Meenister an the chief o Gosplan. Tsiurupa wis born in the ceety which wis renamit efter he dee'd in 1928.

History

• 1084 Oleshia, medieval port-ceety, becomes pairt o Kievan Rus
• 1711-1728 Oleshky Host wis locatit on territory o modren ceety
• 1784 the dounset o Oleshky wis established that in 1790 became pairt o the Kinburn palanka o Black-sea Cossacks.
• 1802 the dounset obtained the ceety richts an became the centre o the Dnipro uyezd (povit) o the Taurida Govrenorate.
• In 1925 town wis renamit tae Oleshky frae Oleshky, its oreeginal name
• On 21 November 2007 the ceety cooncil acceptit the decision (#296) tae rename the ceety back tae Oleshky. The deputies o the ceety an the distrct cooncils as well as the local cossacks wrote a letter tae the Preses o Ukraine requestin for the decision tae be carriet oot.

Geografie

• River Konka goes throu the toun an falls in tae Dnieper
• Oleshky is on the left bank o Dniper
• Oleshky Sands in a close proximity

Freemit airtins

• Brief history profile Archived 2020-02-19 at the Wayback Machine (in Ukrainian)
• Information aboot the ceety cooncil Archived 2012-02-28 at the Wayback Machine