Piatykhatky ( , ) is a small city and a large railway junction in Kamianske Raion, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Piatykhatky urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population: Population in 2001 was 20,563.
History During the Ukrainian War of Independence, from 1917 to 1920, it passed between various factions. Afterwards it was administratively part of the Katerynoslav Governorate of Ukraine.
According to "П'ятихатки - це не місто й не село" chat data, until 18 July 2020, Piatykhatky was the administrative center of Piatykhatky Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast to seven. The area of Piatykhatky Raion was merged into Kamianske Raion.
Demographics As of the 2001 Ukrainian census, the town had a population of 20,459 inhabitants. In terms of ethnicities, the overwhelming majority of the population are Ukrainians, followed by a sizeable Russian minority and smaller Armenian and Belarusian minorities. The exact ethnic and linguistic composition of the settlement was as follows:
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