Kremenchuk

Kremenchuk is a city of regional subordination, which is located in central Ukraine, in the Poltava region. Biggest part of the city lies on the left bank of the Dnipro river, and only a small part of it, namely Kryukov, lies on the right bank.
According to the results of the main department of statistics, the population of the city is 224,997 people, and the population density is 2460 people/square kilometer.
The official date of the foundation of Kremenchuk falls on 1571. The Polish king Sigismund II signed a wagon in which he indicated that it was necessary to build a fortress in order to protect the Dnipro region from constant attacks by the Crimean Tatars. The city’s name is taken from the Turkish word “Kremenchuk” and means “Small fortress”.
Today in the city on the Dnipro there are machine-building and processing enterprises: 11 factories that specialize in the production of wagons, cars, oil refining, wheels, bakery and alcoholic products, meat, milk, etc.; leather and saddlery combine; confectionery factories etc.

The city has a large port, an airfield, and the Kremenchuk hydroelectric power station. There are two railway stations in Kremenchuk: “Kryukov-on-Dnepr” and “Kremenchuk” – one of the largest stations of the Southern Railway. Kremenchuk has a direct railway connection with Kharkiv, Odesa, Kyiv, Dnipro, Lviv, Moscow and other cities.

  1. There are many attractions in Kremenchuk:
  2. Museums;
  3. Art and picture galleries;
  4. Various monuments;
  5. Rock “Granite benchmark”;
  6. Obelisk of the dead;
  7. Stele in honor of the 400th anniversary of the city;
  8. Pushkin Boulevard;
  9. Garden “Alpine Hill”;
  10. Pike from Kremenchuk and many others.

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