Horlivka

"Gorlovka" redirects here. For the Gorlovka meteorite of 1974, see meteorite falls.

Horlivka Горлівка
Flag Coat of arms
Horlivka Location of Horlivka
Coordinates: 48°18′N 38°3′E / 48.3°N 38.05°E / 48.3; 38.05Coordinates: 48°18′N 38°3′E / 48.3°N 38.05°E / 48.3; 38.05
Country Oblast Raion	Ukraine Donetsk Oblast Municipality
Area
– Total	422 km2 (162.9 sq mi)
Population
– Total	289,872
– Density	686.9/km2 (1,779.1/sq mi)

Horlivka (Ukrainian: Горлівка Ukrainian pronunciation: [ˈɦɔrliu̯kɑ]; (Russian: Горловка (Gorlovka)) is a city in the Donetsk Oblast (province) of eastern Ukraine. As of 2001, the city's population was 292,000. It is a coal mining and chemical industry centre. Gorlovka State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages has a two building campus in the center of town.

History

The settlement was founded by Pyotr Gorlov in 1867, though it was little more than a series of mining camps until its rapid expansion in the 1930s.

During the Russian Revolution of 1905, it was the scene of an armed uprising.

In recent years many mines have closed, and the city's population fell by more than ten percent during the 1990s.

Famous people from Horlivka

• Alexander Volkov, Soviet-Russian cosmonaut
• Arkady Shevchenko, Soviet defector
• Nikolai Kapustin, Russian composer and pianist
• Ruslan Ponomariov, Ukrainian chess player
• Serhiy Rebrov, Ukrainian footballer

International relations

See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in Ukraine

Twin towns — Sister cities

Horlivka is twinned with:

City	Country	Year of Signing
Barnsley	United Kingdom
Pensacola, Florida	United States
Buffalo, New York	United States	2007

Links

• Gorlovka Portal
• www.gorlovka-vedi.com.ua
• Dating Horlovka
• www.glove.org.ua
• Video of Gorlovka