Kobeliaky

City in Poltava Oblast, Ukraine

Place in Poltava Oblast, Ukraine

Kobeliaky Кобеляки
Church in Kobeliaky
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49°08′00″N 34°12′00″E / 49.13333°N 34.20000°E / 49.13333; 34.20000
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Poltava Oblast
Raion	Poltava Raion
Founded	1620
Area
• Total	1.21 km² (0.47 sq mi)
Elevation	80 m (260 ft)
Population (2022)
• Total	9,465
• Density	7,800/km² (20,000/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code	39200—39204^[1]
Vehicle registration	BI^[2]

Kobeliaky (Ukrainian: Кобеля́ки, pronounced [kobeˈlʲɑkɪ]) is a city in Poltava Raion, Poltava Oblast, Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Kobeliaky urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.^[3] Population: 9,465 (2022 estimate).^[4]

History

During World War II, Kobeliaky was under German occupation from 15 September 1941 until 25 September 1943.

Until 18 July 2020, Kobeliaky was the administrative center of Kobeliaky Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Poltava Oblast to four. The area of Kobeliaky Raion was merged into Poltava Raion.^[5]^[6]

Population

Language

Distribution of the population by native language according to the 2001 census:^[7]

Language	Percentage
Ukrainian	95.66%
Russian	3.84%
other/undecided	0.5%

Geography

Climate

Climate data for Kobeliaky (1981–2010)
Month	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Year
Mean daily maximum °C (°F)	−1.0 (30.2)	−0.1 (31.8)	5.9 (42.6)	15.1 (59.2)	21.9 (71.4)	25.3 (77.5)	27.6 (81.7)	27.0 (80.6)	20.9 (69.6)	13.4 (56.1)	4.8 (40.6)	0.1 (32.2)	13.4 (56.1)
Daily mean °C (°F)	−3.8 (25.2)	−3.5 (25.7)	1.7 (35.1)	9.6 (49.3)	15.9 (60.6)	19.5 (67.1)	21.5 (70.7)	20.7 (69.3)	15.0 (59.0)	8.6 (47.5)	1.7 (35.1)	−2.5 (27.5)	8.7 (47.7)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F)	−6.5 (20.3)	−6.5 (20.3)	−1.8 (28.8)	4.9 (40.8)	10.3 (50.5)	14.1 (57.4)	16.0 (60.8)	15.0 (59.0)	10.0 (50.0)	4.6 (40.3)	−0.9 (30.4)	−5.1 (22.8)	4.5 (40.1)
Average precipitation mm (inches)	40.1 (1.58)	34.3 (1.35)	35.4 (1.39)	35.8 (1.41)	48.5 (1.91)	57.3 (2.26)	57.0 (2.24)	41.2 (1.62)	52.2 (2.06)	39.4 (1.55)	41.3 (1.63)	39.0 (1.54)	521.5 (20.53)
Average precipitation days (≥ 1.0 mm)	8.1	7.1	7.5	6.1	6.9	7.9	6.7	5.3	6.0	5.8	7.0	7.6	82.0
Average relative humidity (%)	84.7	81.3	75.9	65.4	61.9	66.4	65.8	62.9	69.8	76.3	84.5	85.7	73.4
Source: World Meteorological Organization^[8]

Notable people

Nikolai Timofeyevich Gres, soloist with the Bolshoi Theatre and the Alexandrov Ensemble
Alexander Davydov, opera singer
Alexey Ivakhnenko, academician, mathematician
Hryhory Kytasty, composer, conductor
Georgy Prokopenko (1937–2021), swimmer
Osip Rabinovich, writer
Stepan Shkurat [uk] (1886-1973), actor

Gallery

Historical building in Kobeliaky
Bus station
Shops in Kobeliaky
Seal of Kobeliaky Company of the Dnieper Pikeman Regiment (Russian Empire)
People's Actor of Ukraine Stepan Shkurat (from film "Chapayev", 1934)

References

^ Ukrainian Zip Codes
^ Как расшифровываются новые номера
^ "Кобеляцкая городская громада" (in Russian). Портал об'єднаних громад України.
^ 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.
^ "Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ". Голос України (in Ukrainian). 2020-07-18. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
^ "Нові райони: карти + склад" (in Ukrainian). Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України.
^ https://socialdata.org.ua/projects/mova-2001/
^ "World Meteorological Organization Climate Normals for 1981–2010". World Meteorological Organization. Archived from the original on 17 July 2021. Retrieved 17 July 2021.