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| Schowti Wody | ||
| Oblast | Dnepropetrovsk Oblast | |
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| Residents | 44.766 (2018) | |
| height | 149 m | |
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Schowti Wody (Ukrainian Жо́вті Во́ди; Russian Жёлтые Воды/Scholtyje Vody, in German "yellow water") is a city in the center of Ukraine.
background
The area of Shovti Vody became famous through the battle of Shovti Vody and the resulting victory of the Ukrainian Zaporozhian Cossacks under Bohdan Khmelnyzkyj over the Polish-Lithuanian troops under Stefan Potocki at the beginning of the Khmelnytskyi uprising on May 16, 1648 In the 1950s, uranium ore was found in magnetite deposits within the urban area, which was commercially mined from 1951 and further processed on site a short time later.
getting there
| Distances | |
| Kiev | 380 km |
|---|---|
| Dnipro | 135 km |
| Kryvyi Rih | 70 km |
By plane
By train
Journeys by train from Germany take about 36 hours. There is a train connection from Berlin to Warsaw, from there to Kiev and finally from Kiev to "Pjatychatky". "Pyatychatky" train station is about 12 km outside the city. For more information, see Travel by train in Ukraine.
By bus
From the bus station in Kiev buses regularly run several times a day to the bus station in Shovti Vody in the north-west of the city.
In the street
The city is a good ten kilometers south of the European route 50 (Ukrainian trunk road M 04), which leads west to Snamyanka and from there as trunk road N 01 to Kiev.
mobility
Dynamic cardsIn the city center there is, in addition to individual transport, local public transport, consisting of several bus lines with which you can cover a distance in the city for a price of 3 UAH, as well as numerous taxis. Long-distance traffic is handled via the Shovti Vody bus station (Ukrainian: Автовокзал Жовті Води) in the north-west of the city, from which direct connections with coaches several times a day to, among others, Kiev, Dnipropetrovsk, Olexandrija, Krywyj Rih and the so-called cross-country buses, as well as with small buses , to neighboring towns, such as hourly at the price of 7.87 UAH to the station in Pyatychatky for onward travel by train.
Tourist Attractions
Buildings
The "Palace of Culture" was put into operation in 1957 and is the central building for cultural events in the city with a 720-seat concert hall. The designer is the Russian architect Alexey Aleksandrov Muscovite. Given its uniqueness, the “palace” was included in the list of architectural monuments of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast in 1985.
Monuments
The monument “The Heroes of the War of Liberation of the Ukrainian People 1648–1654”, which depicts the three Cossacks Maksym Krywonis, Bohdan Khmelnyzkyj and Ivan Bohun, who led the Khmelnyzkyj uprising against the aristocratic republic of Poland-Lithuania, was erected in 1992. The sculptors were A. Ju. Bilostozkyj and O. O. Suprun, the architect was Vasyl Heorhijowytsch Hnjesdylow.
There are also the following monuments:
- Monument to the truck "GAZ-AA", in the east of the city.
- Lenin monument in front of the "Palace of Culture"
- Monument "55 years of uranium mining", in Schowti Vody.
- Monument in front of the Scythian Kurgan
- Monument to the hetman Bogdan Khmelnytskyi, at the southern end of Khmelnitsky Street.
- Monument to the poet Pushkin, at the northern end of Khmelnytskyi Street.
- Memorial to the fallen soldiers of the "Great Patriotic War"
- Memorial to the memory of the Holodomor
- Monument commemorating the people killed by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster
Museums
There has been a history museum in the city since 1985 that exhibits thousands of exhibits from local history.
Parks
The "Ehrenpark" (Ukrainian парк Слави; Russian парк славы) is an approximately 20 hectare city park in the center of Shovti Vody that was laid out in 1957 and houses a few fountains, a café and an area for dance events, the largest sights and most of the monuments of the city such as the “Palace of Culture” and the monument “The Heroes of the Liberation War”. To commemorate the fallen soldiers of the Great Patriotic War there is a monument and the “Eternal Flame” in the park, as well as a memorial to the Holodomor, a famine in 1932 and 1933, a memorial to commemorate the people killed by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and the Lenin Monument inaugurated in 1967.
accommodation
There are currently only two hotels in the city.
Cheap
medium
- Hotel "Ювілейний", вул. Паркова 9. Price: 280-420 UAH / daily.
Upscale
There are no upscale hotels in the city.
Learn
Schowti Wody is due to the regional city university located here "Institute of Business Strategy" (Ukrainian: Інститут підприємництва "Стратегія") [1] University City. The university, founded in 1992, has over 1,600 students and 200 lecturers. In addition, the city is a university location with four resident universities such as a branch of the "Pedagogical Institute Krywyj Rih" (Ukrainian: Жовотоводське училище Криворізьского державного педагогічного університету) for the training of primary school teachers and educators.[2]
Practical advice
The city's zip code is 52290 and the phone code is 380 5652
trips
Web links
- http://zhv.gov.ua/ - Official website of Schowti Wody
- Schowti Wody on Commons
Individual evidence
- ↑Regional Municipal University 'Institute of Business Strategy' on osvita.com.ua (Ukrainian)
- ↑Universities in Schowti Vody on osvita.com.ua (Ukrainian)
