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Volnovakha
Волноваха | |
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 Palace of Culture | |
 Flag  Seal | |
  Volnovakha  Volnovakha | |
| Coordinates: 47°36′08″N 37°29′31″E / 47.60222°N 37.49194°E | |
| Country |  Ukraine |
| Oblast |  Donetsk |
| Raion |  Volnovakha |
| Hromada | Volnovakha urban |
| Founded | 1881 |
| City status | 1938 |
| Area | |
| • Total | 21 km2 (8 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 271 m (889 ft) |
| Population (2022) | |
| • Total | 21,166 |
| Website | www.volnovaha.net (archive) |
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Volnovakha (Ukrainian and Russian: Волноваха, Ukrainian: [woɫnoˈwɑxɐ] , Russian: [vəɫnɐˈvaxə]; Greek: Βολνοβάχα) is a city in Donetsk Oblast, eastern Ukraine. It serves as the administrative center of Volnovakha Raion within the oblast. As of January 2022, it had a population of 21,166.[1][2]
The train station is a railway hub. It serves the only onshore rail line between Donetsk and Russia to the north-east and east, and Zaporizhzhia Oblast and Crimea to the west and south-west, and the only rail line south to Mariupol.
In February and March 2022, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, many of its buildings were damaged or destroyed. The governor of the region, Pavlo Kyrylenko, said that 90% of the city's critical infrastructure was destroyed.[3]
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Ukraine: UN expert says war against multi-ethnic population must stop, calls for protection of all minorities". OHCHR. 16 March 2022. Archived from the original on 26 February 2023.
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