Kryvyi Rih

Kryvyi Rih
Кривий Ріг
City
From upper left: Historical centre, Kryvyi Rih-Main railway station, ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih, Quarter 95, the boat station on the Saksahan, a landscape of the Inhulets from Eagle's Nest
Flag of Kryvyi Rih
Flag
Coat of Arms of Kryvyi Rih
Coat of arms
Official logo of Kryvyi Rih
Brandmark
Motto: 
Life-long city[citation needed]
Anthem: Anthem of Kryvyi Rih
Kryvyi Rih is located in Ukraine
Kryvyi Rih
Kryvyi Rih
Location of Kryvyi Rih in Ukraine
Kryvyi Rih is located in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
Kryvyi Rih
Kryvyi Rih
Location of Kryvyi Rih in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
Coordinates: 47°55′N 33°23′E / 47.91°N 33.39°E / 47.91; 33.39
CountryUkraine
OblastDnipropetrovsk Oblast
RaionKryvyi Rih Raion
HromadaKryvyi Rih urban hromada
Historic GovernorateZaporizhzhian Sich (1734 – 1774)

Azov Governorate (1775 – 1781)
Yekaterinoslav Viceroyalty (1782 – 1795)
Novorossiya Gov. (1796 – 1801)
Kherson Gov. (1802 – 1918)

Yekaterinoslav Gov. (1919)
Founded1775 (249 years ago)
Town charter1860
City status1919
Administrative HQKryvyi Rih City Hall,
Ploshcha (Square) Molodizhna
RaionsList of 7 districts
  1. Ternivskyi District
  2. Pokrovskyi District
  3. Saksahanskyi District
  4. Tsentralno-Miskyi District
  5. Dovhyntsivskyi District
  6. Metalurhiinyi District
  7. Inhuletskyi District
Government
 • TypeCity council, regional
 • MayorCity council secretary Yuri Vilkul (Mayor Konstantyn Pavlov [de; uk; ru] died on 15 August 2021, since then his powers are temporarily exercised by the city council secretary)[1]
 • Governing bodyKryvyi Rih City Council
 • Head of military administrationOleksandr Vilkul[2]
Area
 • City431 km2 (166 sq mi)
 • Rank2nd, UA
Elevation
[3]
84 m (276 ft)
Population
 (2022)
 • City603,904
 • Rank8th, UA
 • Density1,400/km2 (3,600/sq mi)
 • Metro
1,170,953
 (2019)
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code
50000-50479
Area code+380 56(4)
Websitekrmisto.gov.ua

Kryvyi Rih (/ˈkrɪviː ˈriː/; Ukrainian: Кривий Ріг, IPA: [krɪwɪj ˈr⁽ʲ⁾iɦ] ⓘ), also known as Krivoy Rog (Russian: Кривой Рог [krʲɪˈvoj ˈrok]),[4] is a city in central Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Kryvyi Rih Raion and its subordinate Kryvyi Rih urban hromada in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.[5] The city is part of the Kryvyi Rih Metropolitan Region. Its population is estimated at 603,904 (2022 estimate),[6] making it the seventh-most populous city in Ukraine and the second largest by area. Kryvyi Rih is claimed to be the longest city in Europe.[7][8]

Located at the confluence of the Saksahan and Inhulets rivers, Kryvyi Rih was founded as a military staging post in 1775. Urban-industrial growth followed Belgian, French and British investment in the exploitation of the area's rich iron-ore deposits, generally called Kryvbas, in the 1880s. Kryvyi Rih gained city status after the October Revolution in 1919.

Stalin-era industrialisation built Kryvorizhstal in 1934, the largest integrated metallurgical works in the Soviet Union. After a brutal German occupation in World War II, Kryvyi Rih experienced renewed growth through to the 1970s. The economic dislocation associated with the break-up of the Soviet Union contributed to high unemployment and a large-scale exodus from the city in the 1990s. The privatization of Kryvorizhstal in 2005 was followed by increased foreign and private investment which helped finance urban regeneration. Beginning in 2017, there were major labour protests and strikes.

Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Kryvyi Rih has been the target of frequent Russian missile strikes. It was a focus of the southern Ukraine campaign, but the closest ground advance by Russia stalled some 50 kilometres (31 mi) to the south of the city before it was turned back in March 2022.

  1. ^ (in Ukrainian) Ex-mayor of Kryvyi Rih Vilkul will rule the city again Archived 2021-08-25 at the Wayback Machine, Ukrainska Pravda (25 August 2021)
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference 20220227Vikul1429610 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "Kryvyi Rih (Ternopil Oblast, Kryvyi Rih Raion)". weather.in.ua. Archived from the original on 5 May 2022. Retrieved 27 February 2012.
  4. ^ "Ukraine RD: Krivoy Rog". www.jewishgen.org. Archived from the original on 2022-11-23. Retrieved 2022-11-23.
  5. ^ "Криворожская городская громада" (in Russian). Портал об'єднаних громад України. Archived from the original on 2022-02-20. Retrieved 2021-05-08.
  6. ^ Чисельність наявного населення України на 1 січня 2022 [Number of Present Population of Ukraine, as of January 1, 2022] (PDF) (in Ukrainian and English). Kyiv: State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 July 2022.
  7. ^ "Kryvyi Rih - the Steel Heart of Ukraine". Arnika. September 9, 2017. Archived from the original on November 15, 2022. Retrieved November 15, 2022.
  8. ^ (in Ukrainian) "The official written response from The City Council Executive Committee to an information request regarding the geometric parameters of the city" (PDF). Доступ до правди (in Ukrainian). Криворізька міська рада. 29 Dec 2017. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 Nov 2019. Retrieved 6 Nov 2019.