Novovolynsk (, ) is a city in Volyn Oblast, Ukraine. Novovolynsk, together with the rural settlement of Blahodatne and six villages, is incorporated into Novovolynsk urban hromada. Population:
Located within the Lviv-Volyn coal basin until recently, Novovolynsk was a major coal mining center of the region. The city has a few factories: a ferroconcrete plant, brickworks, a plant for mining equipment maintenance, a meatpacking and bread factory, and a woodworking plant.
History Novovolynsk was built in 1950 as a mining town in the USSR. It obtained city status in 1957. The word "Novovolynsk" is a morphological blend, meaning "a new town in the Volyn Oblast".
There is a monument to a Ukrainian poet and artist Taras Shevchenko in Novovolynsk.
Geography Novovolynsk is situated in the southwest of Volyn Oblast in the far north-west of Ukraine. The city area is about 17 square kilometers. The state border to Poland runs 15 km to the West from the city; 92 km to the North from Novovolynsk there is the state border to Belarus.
The city is well-situated. The distance to the national highway H22 Ustyluh – Lutsk – Rivne is only 18 km. The distance to the international highway E373 (coincides with national M07) Warsaw – Lublin – Kovel – Sarny – Korosten – Kyiv is only 76 km.
Demographics As of the 2001 Ukrainian census, Novovolynsk had a population of 58,558 inhabitants. The ethnic and linguitic composition of the population at the time of the census was as follows:
Notable people Artem Fedetskyi (born 1985), footballer
Twin towns – sister cities Novovolynsk is twinned with:
Biłgoraj, Poland Bílina, Czech Republic Hrubieszów County, Poland Jaraczewo, Poland Kelmė, Lithuania Otwock County, Poland Rymanów, Poland Stropkov, Slovakia Edegem, Belgium
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References
Sources Олександр Цинкаловський. Стара Волинь і Волинське Полісся. Краєзнавчий словник — від найдавніших часів до 1914 року. – V. 1.
External links
Information portal of Novovolynsk Novovolynsk, Google maps