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href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melit%C3%B3pol" title="Melitópol – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Melitópol" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melitopol" title="Melitopol – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Melitopol" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%BE%D9%88%D9%84" title="ملیتوپول – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="ملیتوپول" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D1%8D%D0%BB%D1%96%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C" title="Мэлітопаль – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Мэлітопаль" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D1%8D%D0%BB%D1%96%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C" title="Мэлітопаль – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Мэлітопаль" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BB" title="Мелитопол – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Мелитопол" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melit%C3%B2pol" title="Melitòpol – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Melitòpol" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ceb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melitopol%27" title="Melitopol' – Cebuano" lang="ceb" hreflang="ceb" data-title="Melitopol'" data-language-autonym="Cebuano" data-language-local-name="Cebuano" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cebuano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melitopol" title="Melitopol – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Melitopol" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melitopol" title="Melitopol – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Melitopol" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melitopol" title="Melitopol – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Melitopol" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melitopol" title="Melitopol – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Melitopol" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9C%CE%B5%CE%BB%CE%B9%CF%84%CF%8C%CF%80%CE%BF%CE%BB%CE%B7" title="Μελιτόπολη – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Μελιτόπολη" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melit%C3%B3pol" title="Melitópol – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Melitópol" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melitopolo" title="Melitopolo – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Melitopolo" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melitopol" title="Melitopol – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Melitopol" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%BE%D9%88%D9%84" title="ملیتوپول – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="ملیتوپول" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melitopol" title="Melitopol – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Melitopol" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gv mw-list-item"><a href="https://gv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melitopol" title="Melitopol – Manx" lang="gv" hreflang="gv" data-title="Melitopol" data-language-autonym="Gaelg" data-language-local-name="Manx" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaelg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gd mw-list-item"><a href="https://gd.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melitopol" title="Melitopol – Scottish Gaelic" lang="gd" hreflang="gd" data-title="Melitopol" data-language-autonym="Gàidhlig" data-language-local-name="Scottish Gaelic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gàidhlig</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A9%9C%EB%A6%AC%ED%86%A0%ED%8F%B4" title="멜리토폴 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="멜리토폴" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%84%D5%A5%D5%AC%D5%AB%D5%BF%D5%B8%D5%BA%D5%B8%D5%AC" title="Մելիտոպոլ – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Մելիտոպոլ" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hsb mw-list-item"><a href="https://hsb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melitopol" title="Melitopol – Upper Sorbian" lang="hsb" hreflang="hsb" data-title="Melitopol" data-language-autonym="Hornjoserbsce" data-language-local-name="Upper Sorbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hornjoserbsce</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melitopol" title="Melitopol – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Melitopol" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-os mw-list-item"><a href="https://os.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C" title="Мелитополь – Ossetic" lang="os" hreflang="os" data-title="Мелитополь" data-language-autonym="Ирон" data-language-local-name="Ossetic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ирон</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melitopol%27" title="Melitopol' – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Melitopol'" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%98%D7%95%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%9C" title="מליטופול – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="מליטופול" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%9B%E1%83%94%E1%83%9A%E1%83%98%E1%83%A2%E1%83%9D%E1%83%9E%E1%83%9D%E1%83%9A%E1%83%98" title="მელიტოპოლი – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="მელიტოპოლი" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melitopol" title="Melitopol – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="Melitopol" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kiswahili</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melitopolis" title="Melitopolis – Latin" 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dd:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dt:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dd:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dt:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li li:first-child::before{content:" (";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd li:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt li:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li li:last-child::after{content:")";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol{counter-reset:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li{counter-increment:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li::before{content:" "counter(listitem)"\a0 "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li ol>li:first-child::before{content:" ("counter(listitem)"\a0 "}</style><div class="hlist"><ul><li> <ul><li>Statue of <a href="/wiki/Taras_Shevchenko" title="Taras Shevchenko">Taras Shevchenko</a> at the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Peremohy_Square,_Melitopol&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Peremohy Square, Melitopol (page does not exist)">Peremohy Square, Melitopol</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%89%D0%B0_%D0%9F%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%B8_(%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%96%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C)" class="extiw" title="uk:Площа Перемоги (Мелітополь)">uk</a>]</span></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Saint_Sava_the_Sanctified_Monastery&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Saint Sava the Sanctified Monastery (page does not exist)">Saint Sava the Sanctified Monastery</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%80_%D1%81%D0%B2%D1%8F%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE_%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B2%D0%B8_%D0%9E%D1%81%D0%B2%D1%8F%D1%89%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE" class="extiw" title="uk:Монастир святого Савви Освященного">uk</a>]</span></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Saint_Alexander_Nevsky_cathedral,_Melitopol&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Saint Alexander Nevsky cathedral, Melitopol (page does not exist)">Saint Alexander Nevsky cathedral, Melitopol</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%BE-%D0%9D%D0%B5%D0%B2%D1%81%D1%8C%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%BE%D1%80_(%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%96%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C)" class="extiw" title="uk:Олександро-Невський собор (Мелітополь)">uk</a>]</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melitopol_railway_station" title="Melitopol railway station">Melitopol railway station</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Dmytro_Motornyi_Tavria_State_Agrotechnological_University&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Dmytro Motornyi Tavria State Agrotechnological University (page does not exist)">Dmytro Motornyi Tavria State Agrotechnological University</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%80%D1%96%D0%B9%D1%81%D1%8C%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B6%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%B0%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%85%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B3%D1%96%D1%87%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D1%83%D0%BD%D1%96%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%82_%D1%96%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%96_%D0%94%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0_%D0%9C%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE" class="extiw" title="uk:Таврійський державний агротехнологічний університет імені Дмитра Моторного">uk</a>]</span></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Melitopol_City_Council&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Melitopol City Council (page does not exist)">Melitopol City Council</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%96%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%81%D1%8C%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%BC%D1%96%D1%81%D1%8C%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B0" class="extiw" title="uk:Мелітопольська міська рада">uk</a>]</span></li> <li>Statue of <a href="/wiki/Maxim_Gorky" title="Maxim Gorky">Maxim Gorky</a> in <a href="/w/index.php?title=Novooleksandrivskyi_Park&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Novooleksandrivskyi Park (page does not exist)">Novooleksandrivskyi Park</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B4%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B9_%D0%BF%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA_%D0%BA%D1%83%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%82%D1%83%D1%80%D1%8B_%D0%B8_%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B4%D1%8B%D1%85%D0%B0_%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B0_%D0%93%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%8C%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE" class="extiw" title="uk:Мелитопольский городской парк культуры и отдыха имени Максима Горького">uk</a>]</span></li></ul> </li></ul></div></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data maptable"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1028600610">.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-cols{text-align:center;display:table;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-cols-row{display:table-row}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-cols-cell{display:table-cell;vertical-align:middle}.mw-parser-output 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class="mw-file-description" title="Official seal of Melitopol"><img alt="Official seal of Melitopol" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Coat_of_arms_Melitopol.svg/84px-Coat_of_arms_Melitopol.svg.png" decoding="async" width="84" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Coat_of_arms_Melitopol.svg/125px-Coat_of_arms_Melitopol.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Coat_of_arms_Melitopol.svg/167px-Coat_of_arms_Melitopol.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="612" /></a></span><div class="ib-settlement-caption-link">Seal</div></div></div></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><div class="switcher-container"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238443738">.mw-parser-output .locmap .od{position:absolute}.mw-parser-output .locmap .id{position:absolute;line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .locmap 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div{background:transparent!important}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .locmap{filter:grayscale(0.6)}html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .od,html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .od .pv>div,html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .od .pl>div,html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .od .pr>div{background:white!important;color:#000!important}html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data .locmap div{background:transparent!important}}</style><div class="center"><div class="locmap" style="width:250px;float:none;clear:both;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto"><div style="width:250px;padding:0"><div style="position:relative;width:250px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Zaporizhzhia_province_physical_map.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Melitopol is located in Zaporizhzhia Oblast"><img alt="Melitopol is located in Zaporizhzhia Oblast" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Zaporizhzhia_province_physical_map.svg/250px-Zaporizhzhia_province_physical_map.svg.png" decoding="async" width="250" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Zaporizhzhia_province_physical_map.svg/375px-Zaporizhzhia_province_physical_map.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Zaporizhzhia_province_physical_map.svg/500px-Zaporizhzhia_province_physical_map.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="531" data-file-height="467" /></a></span><div class="od notheme" style="top:66.453%;left:40.512%;font-size:91%"><div class="id" style="left:-3px;top:-3px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Melitopol"><img alt="Melitopol" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/6px-Red_pog.svg.png" decoding="async" width="6" height="6" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/9px-Red_pog.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/12px-Red_pog.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="64" data-file-height="64" /></span></span></div><div class="pr" style="width:6em;left:4px"><div>Melitopol</div></div></div></div><div style="padding-top:0.2em">Location of Melitopol in Ukraine</div><span class="switcher-label" style="display:none">Show map of Zaporizhzhia Oblast</span></div></div></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238443738" /><div class="center"><div class="locmap" style="width:250px;float:none;clear:both;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto"><div style="width:250px;padding:0"><div style="position:relative;width:250px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Reliefkarte_Ukraine_2022.png" class="mw-file-description" title="Melitopol is located in Ukraine"><img alt="Melitopol is located in Ukraine" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Reliefkarte_Ukraine_2022.png/250px-Reliefkarte_Ukraine_2022.png" decoding="async" width="250" height="170" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Reliefkarte_Ukraine_2022.png/500px-Reliefkarte_Ukraine_2022.png 1.5x" data-file-width="2876" data-file-height="1954" /></a></span><div class="od notheme" style="top:68.036%;left:72.227%;font-size:91%"><div class="id" style="left:-3px;top:-3px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Melitopol"><img alt="Melitopol" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/6px-Red_pog.svg.png" decoding="async" width="6" height="6" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/9px-Red_pog.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/12px-Red_pog.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="64" data-file-height="64" /></span></span></div><div class="pl" style="width:6em;right:4px"><div>Melitopol</div></div></div></div><div style="padding-top:0.2em">Melitopol (Ukraine)</div><span class="switcher-label" style="display:none">Show map of Ukraine</span></div></div></div></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedbottomrow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">Coordinates: <span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Melitopol&params=46_50_56_N_35_22_03_E_region:UA_type:city(148851)"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">46°50′56″N</span> <span class="longitude">35°22′03″E</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">46.84889°N 35.36750°E</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">46.84889; 35.36750</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states" title="List of sovereign states">Country</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Ukraine" title="Ukraine"><img alt="Ukraine" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Flag_of_Ukraine.svg/23px-Flag_of_Ukraine.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Flag_of_Ukraine.svg/35px-Flag_of_Ukraine.svg.png 1.5x, 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hromada</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Established</th><td class="infobox-data">1784</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/City_rights" class="mw-redirect" title="City rights">City rights</a></th><td class="infobox-data">1842</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Government<div class="ib-settlement-fn"></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Mayor</th><td class="infobox-data"><i>Vacant</i></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Area<div class="ib-settlement-fn"></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="white-space:nowrap;"> • Total</div></th><td class="infobox-data">51 km<sup>2</sup> (20 sq mi)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Population<div class="ib-settlement-fn"><span class="nowrap"> </span>(2022)</div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="white-space:nowrap;"> • Total</div></th><td class="infobox-data">148,851</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Postal Index</th><td class="infobox-data adr"><div class="postal-code">72300</div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/K%C3%B6ppen_climate_classification" title="Köppen climate classification">Climate</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Humid_subtropical_climate" title="Humid subtropical climate">Cfa</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.mlt.gov.ua">www<wbr />.mlt<wbr />.gov<wbr />.ua</a></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data maptable"><a class="mw-kartographer-map notheme mw-kartographer-container center" style="width: 270px; height: 300px;" data-mw-kartographer="mapframe" data-style="osm-intl" data-width="270" data-height="300" data-zoom="11" data-overlays="["_a9915c126bb19ee3f7503f1d843454bacde60918"]"><img src="https://maps.wikimedia.org/img/osm-intl,11,a,a,270x300.png?lang=en&domain=en.wikipedia.org&title=Melitopol&revid=1279565375&groups=_a9915c126bb19ee3f7503f1d843454bacde60918" width="270" height="300" decoding="async" srcset="https://maps.wikimedia.org/img/osm-intl,11,a,a,270x300@2x.png?lang=en&domain=en.wikipedia.org&title=Melitopol&revid=1279565375&groups=_a9915c126bb19ee3f7503f1d843454bacde60918 2x" alt="Map" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Melitopol</b><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is a <a href="/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Ukraine" title="List of cities in Ukraine">city</a> and <a href="/wiki/List_of_hromadas_of_Ukraine" title="List of hromadas of Ukraine">municipality</a> in <a href="/wiki/Zaporizhzhia_Oblast" title="Zaporizhzhia Oblast">Zaporizhzhia Oblast</a>, southeastern <a href="/wiki/Ukraine" title="Ukraine">Ukraine</a>. It is situated on the <a href="/wiki/Molochna_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Molochna River">Molochna River</a>, which flows through the eastern edge of the city into the <a href="/wiki/Molochnyi_Lyman" title="Molochnyi Lyman">Molochnyi Lyman</a> estuary. Melitopol is the second-largest city in the oblast after <a href="/wiki/Zaporizhzhia" title="Zaporizhzhia">Zaporizhzhia</a> and serves as the administrative centre of <a href="/wiki/Melitopol_Raion" title="Melitopol Raion">Melitopol Raion</a>. As of January 2022, Melitopol's population was estimated to be <span class="nowrap">148,851.</span><sup id="cite_ref-ua2022estimate_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ua2022estimate-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Melitopol has been under <a href="/wiki/Russian_occupation_of_Zaporizhzhia_Oblast" title="Russian occupation of Zaporizhzhia Oblast">Russian control</a> since March 2022. On September 30, 2022, the city was formally annexed by the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Federation" class="mw-redirect" title="Russian Federation">Russian Federation</a>; however, it remains internationally recognized as sovereign territory of Ukraine. </p><p>The city is located at the crossing of two major European highways: <a href="/wiki/European_route_E58" title="European route E58">E58 Vienna – Uzhhorod – Kyiv – Rostov-on-Don</a> and <a href="/wiki/European_route_E105" title="European route E105">E105 Kirkenes – St. Petersburg – Moscow – Kyiv – Yalta</a>. An electrified railway line of international importance goes through Melitopol. The city was once known as "the gateway to <a href="/wiki/Crimea" title="Crimea">the Crimea</a>"; prior to the 2014 <a href="/wiki/Annexation_of_Crimea_by_the_Russian_Federation" title="Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation">Russian annexation of Crimea</a> 80% of passenger trains heading to the peninsula passed through it and during the summer, road traffic reached 45,000 vehicles per day. </p> <div style="clear:left;" class=""></div> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Etymology">Etymology</h2></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Native_names">Native names</h3></div> <p>Both Ukrainian and Russian names are based on the <a href="/wiki/Greek_language" title="Greek language">Greek</a> name <i><span title="Greek-language text"><span lang="el">Μελιτόπολις</span></span></i>, <abbr style="font-size:85%" title="literal translation">lit.</abbr><span style="white-space: nowrap;"> </span><span class="gloss-quot">'</span><span class="gloss-text">honey city</span><span class="gloss-quot">'</span>. </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_language" title="Ukrainian language">Ukrainian</a>: <span lang="uk">Мелітополь</span>; <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1177148991">.mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}</style><span class="IPA-label IPA-label-small">IPA:</span> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="uk-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Ukrainian" title="Help:IPA/Ukrainian">[mel⁽ʲ⁾iˈtɔpolʲ]</a></span> <span class="ext-phonos"><span data-nosnippet="" id="ooui-php-1" class="noexcerpt ext-phonos-PhonosButton ext-phonos-PhonosButton-emptylabel oo-ui-widget oo-ui-widget-enabled oo-ui-buttonElement oo-ui-buttonElement-frameless oo-ui-iconElement oo-ui-buttonWidget" data-ooui="{"_":"mw.Phonos.PhonosButton","href":"\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/transcoded\/7\/7f\/Uk-%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%96%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C.ogg\/Uk-%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%96%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C.ogg.mp3","rel":["nofollow"],"framed":false,"icon":"volumeUp","data":{"ipa":"","text":"","lang":"en","wikibase":"","file":"Uk-\u041c\u0435\u043b\u0456\u0442\u043e\u043f\u043e\u043b\u044c.ogg"},"classes":["noexcerpt","ext-phonos-PhonosButton","ext-phonos-PhonosButton-emptylabel"]}"><a role="button" tabindex="0" href="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/7f/Uk-%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%96%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C.ogg/Uk-%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%96%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C.ogg.mp3" rel="nofollow" aria-label="Play audio" title="Play audio" class="oo-ui-buttonElement-button"><span class="oo-ui-iconElement-icon oo-ui-icon-volumeUp"></span><span class="oo-ui-labelElement-label"></span><span class="oo-ui-indicatorElement-indicator oo-ui-indicatorElement-noIndicator"></span></a></span><sup class="ext-phonos-attribution noexcerpt navigation-not-searchable"><a href="/wiki/File:Uk-%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%96%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C.ogg" title="File:Uk-Мелітополь.ogg">ⓘ</a></sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Russian_language" title="Russian language">Russian</a>: <span lang="ru">Мелитополь</span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Historical_names">Historical names</h3></div> <p>The city was called <i>Kyz-Yar</i> (<a href="/wiki/Crimean_Tatar_language" title="Crimean Tatar language">Crimean Tatar</a>: <i><span title="Crimean Tatar-language text" lang="crh-Latn">Qız Yar</span></i>; Ukrainian: <span lang="uk">Киз-Яр</span>), and <i>Novooleksandrivka</i> (Ukrainian: <span lang="uk">Новоолександрівка</span>) before 1815 and 1842 respectively. It was renamed to the current name after on. In addition, the traditional Ukrainian names <i>Melitopil</i> (Мелітопіль)<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <i>Melytopil</i> (Мелитопіль)<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> were also used but no longer after the <a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_orthography_of_1933" title="Ukrainian orthography of 1933">Ukrainian language was oppressed by the Soviet authorities</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2></div> <p>In July 1769, Russian military commanders built a <a href="/wiki/Redoubt" title="Redoubt">redoubt</a> there, and <a href="/wiki/Cossacks" title="Cossacks">Zaporizhia Cossacks</a> carried out their duty service there. On 2 February 1784, <a href="/wiki/Catherine_II" class="mw-redirect" title="Catherine II">Catherine II</a> issued the decree to create the <a href="/wiki/Taurida_Oblast" title="Taurida Oblast">Taurida Oblast</a> on the lands that had been won. The deputy of <a href="/wiki/Novorossiya" title="Novorossiya">Novorossiya</a> <a href="/wiki/Grigory_Potemkin" title="Grigory Potemkin">Grigory Potemkin</a> signed the relation to establish a town that very year – and Cossacks' families and those of retired soldiers of Suvorov settled on the right bank of the Molochna River. Among others, Germans were encouraged to settle in the new province, and some villages in this area were for many years German-speaking, such as Heidelberg (now Pryshyb) some 50 km (31 mi) to the north of Melitopol.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1034237262">.mw-parser-output .stack{box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .stack>div{margin:1px;overflow:hidden}@media all and (min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .stack-clear-left{float:left;clear:left}.mw-parser-output .stack-clear-right{float:right;clear:right}.mw-parser-output .stack-left{float:left}.mw-parser-output .stack-right{float:right}.mw-parser-output .stack-margin-clear-left{float:left;clear:left;margin-right:1em}.mw-parser-output .stack-margin-clear-right{float:right;clear:right;margin-left:1em}.mw-parser-output .stack-margin-left{float:left;margin-right:1em}.mw-parser-output .stack-margin-right{float:right;margin-left:1em}}</style><div class="stack mw-stack stack-right"><div><figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Novoalexandrovskaya_sloboda.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Novoalexandrovskaya_sloboda.jpg/220px-Novoalexandrovskaya_sloboda.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="127" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e9/Novoalexandrovskaya_sloboda.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="173" /></a><figcaption>Novoalexandrovskaya sloboda, Redin and Fomin painting</figcaption></figure></div></div> <p>In 1816, the settlement got the name <i><a href="/wiki/Sloboda_(settlement)" class="mw-redirect" title="Sloboda (settlement)">sloboda</a></i> <i>of Novoalexandrovka</i>. Its population was increasing due to the importation of peasants from the northern provinces of Ukraine and Russia. On 7 January 1842, the sloboda was recognized as a town and received the new name of Melitopol after a port city of Melita (from Greek <i>Μέλι</i> (meli) – "honey") which had been situated on the mouth of the Molochna River. At the end of the 19th century, the "Honey-city"<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> had been developed as a trade center – there were some banks, credit organizations and wholesale stores. The largest enterprises in the city at the time were the iron foundry and the Brothers Klassen's machinery construction factory (1886), the railroad depot and the workshops. </p><p>Further development of the city was closely connected with trade, iron and engineering industries, and railway service in the Crimean direction. In the early twentieth century there were fifteen thousand people living in Melitopol. 30 factories and 350 shops operated in the city at that time. In the second half of the twentieth century there was a strong economic growth of the city: new factories, plants, and housing estates were constructed. Sixteen Melitopol business enterprises received All-Soviet Union significance status. Industrial products were exported to more than 50 countries. </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1034237262" /><div class="stack mw-stack stack-right"><div><figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Old_Alexander_Nevsky_Cathedral_Melitopol.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Old_Alexander_Nevsky_Cathedral_Melitopol.jpg/220px-Old_Alexander_Nevsky_Cathedral_Melitopol.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="195" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Old_Alexander_Nevsky_Cathedral_Melitopol.jpg/330px-Old_Alexander_Nevsky_Cathedral_Melitopol.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Old_Alexander_Nevsky_Cathedral_Melitopol.jpg/440px-Old_Alexander_Nevsky_Cathedral_Melitopol.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="710" /></a><figcaption>The Old Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Melitopol, destroyed by the Bolsheviks in the 1930s</figcaption></figure></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="World_War_II">World War II</h3></div> <p>In 1941, the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a> was attacked by <a href="/wiki/Nazi_Germany" title="Nazi Germany">Germany</a>. The city became strategically important due to its location. The <a href="/wiki/Red_Army" title="Red Army">Red Army</a> was not ready for the war and had to retreat. The German <a href="/wiki/Wehrmacht" title="Wehrmacht">Wehrmacht</a> occupied Melitopol on 6 October 1941. Within one week the entire remaining <a href="/wiki/Jews" title="Jews">Jewish</a> population of Melitopol (2,000 men, women and children) were murdered by <a href="/wiki/Einsatzgruppe" class="mw-redirect" title="Einsatzgruppe">Einsatzgruppen</a>, which was actively supported by the Wehrmacht. The Germans operated a Nazi prison in the city.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="The_Wotan_Line_Battle">The Wotan Line Battle</h4></div> <p>After breaking through on the Mius River and defeating Axis troops in the Donbas and Taganrog, the Soviet Southern Front army pursuing the retreating enemy came to the <a href="/wiki/Molochna_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Molochna River">Molochna River</a> on 22 September 1943. Here, in the basin of the Milk River, German troops had begun to build a strong long-term defence which they called the <a href="/wiki/Panther-Wotan_line" class="mw-redirect" title="Panther-Wotan line">Panther-Wotan line</a>. It was on this line that the fate of the Crimean peninsula and the whole course of offensive operations in the southern Soviet Union were decided. </p><p>The German defense consisted of four lines, covered with solid anti-tank ditches and land mines. The first attempt of the Soviet Southern Front army to break through was unsuccessful. Soviet commanders decided to prepare thoroughly a new attempt: the so-called “Melitopol operation”, which was carried out successfully from 26 September to 5 November 1943. </p><p>Fighting lasted long, as the Germans introduced fresh reserves in order to keep Melitopol. Finally, after many days of heavy street fighting against vastly superior numbers of men and equipment, German resistance was broken and on 23 October the Red Army took complete control of the city. By decrees of the <a href="/wiki/Presidium_of_the_USSR_Supreme_Soviet" class="mw-redirect" title="Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet">Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet</a>, 87 Red soldiers and airmen were awarded the title of "Hero of the Soviet Union" for their actions in the reconquest of Melitopol. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Russo-Ukrainian_War">Russo-Ukrainian War</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444" /><table class="box-Update plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Update" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Ambox_current_red_Americas.svg/42px-Ambox_current_red_Americas.svg.png" decoding="async" width="42" height="34" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Ambox_current_red_Americas.svg/63px-Ambox_current_red_Americas.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Ambox_current_red_Americas.svg/84px-Ambox_current_red_Americas.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="360" data-file-height="290" /></span></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section needs to be <b>updated</b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">February 2024</span>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Melitopol" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Melitopol">Battle of Melitopol</a> and <a href="/wiki/Russian_occupation_of_Zaporizhzhia_Oblast#History" title="Russian occupation of Zaporizhzhia Oblast">Russian occupation of Zaporizhzhia Oblast § History</a></div> <p>During the <a href="/wiki/Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine" title="Russian invasion of Ukraine">Russian invasion of Ukraine</a>, Melitopol was attacked by the Russian forces on 25 February 2022, and captured after heavy fighting by 1 March. Mayor <a href="/wiki/Ivan_Fedorov_(politician)" title="Ivan Fedorov (politician)">Ivan Fedorov</a> pledged non-cooperation, and locals took to the streets to protest the Russian occupation.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 11 March Fedorov was abducted by the Russian military and released five days later as part of a prisoner swap.<sup id="cite_ref-cnn-melitopol_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cnn-melitopol-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the meantime, the Russian forces had attempted to install former councilor <a href="/wiki/Halyna_Danylchenko" class="mw-redirect" title="Halyna Danylchenko">Halyna Danylchenko</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Opposition_Bloc_(2019)" title="Opposition Bloc (2019)">Opposition Bloc</a> party as acting mayor. The Melitopol City Council declared that this was an attempt to "illegally create an occupation administration"<sup id="cite_ref-0313PRAVDA_17330955_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-0313PRAVDA_17330955-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and appealed to the <a href="/wiki/Prosecutor_General_of_Ukraine" title="Prosecutor General of Ukraine">Prosecutor General of Ukraine</a> to launch a pre-trial investigation into Danylchenko and her party.<sup id="cite_ref-0313PRAVDA_17330955_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-0313PRAVDA_17330955-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 23 March 2022, now-exiled Mayor Fedorov reported that the city was experiencing problems with food, medication, and fuel supplies, and that the Russian military was seizing businesses, intimidating the local population, and holding several journalists in custody.<sup id="cite_ref-cnn-melitopol_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cnn-melitopol-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 30 May, a bomb exploded in central Melitopol during a humanitarian aid transfer between local residents and Russian personnel, injuring at least three people, according to the Russian investigative committee's website which referenced "Ukrainian saboteurs" as the possible perpetrators. In a statement from exile, Ivan Fedorov alluded to the possibility that the bombing was connected to local Ukrainian resistance fighters.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 30 September, in a move unrecognized internationally, the city was annexed by Russia as part of the <a href="/wiki/Russian_annexation_of_Donetsk,_Kherson,_Luhansk_and_Zaporizhzhia_oblasts" title="Russian annexation of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia oblasts">Russian annexation of Zaporizhzhia oblast</a>. </p><p>Russian occupation authorities instituted a policy of re-<a href="/wiki/Sovietization" title="Sovietization">Sovietization</a> of the city, including restoring Soviet names to Melitopol's streets, these names were introduced by the Bolsheviks in the 1920s.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 27 April 2023, the police chief defector Oleksandr Mishchenko was killed in a bomb blast at his apartment block. His assassin(s) were Ukrainian partisans.<sup id="cite_ref-bbc27_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbc27-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Demographics">Demographics</h2></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1261442011">.mw-parser-output .abbr-header{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .caption-purple{border:1px #a2a9b1 solid;border-bottom:none;background-color:lavender}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .caption-purple{background:inherit!important}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .caption-purple{background:inherit!important}}.mw-parser-output .table-pale{border:1px #a2a9b1 solid;border-top:none;background-color:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa);padding:5px}@media screen and (max-width:640px){.mw-parser-output .table-pale{border-top:1px #a2a9b1 solid!important}.mw-parser-output .caption-purple{border:none}}</style><table class="table-pale" style="width:15em;border-top-width:0;border-spacing: 0;float:right;clear:right;margin:0.5em 0 1em 0.5em;"><caption class="caption-purple" style="padding:0.25em;font-weight:bold">Historical population</caption><tbody><tr style="font-size:95%"><th style="border-bottom:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);padding:1px;width:3em">Year</th><th style="border-bottom:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);padding:1px 2px;text-align:right"><abbr title="Population" class="abbr-header">Pop.</abbr></th><th style="border-bottom:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);padding:1px;text-align:right"><abbr title="Percent change" class="abbr-header">±%</abbr></th></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1897</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">15,489</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">—    </td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1926</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">25,249</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+63.0%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1939</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">75,748</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+200.0%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1959</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">94,670</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+25.0%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">1970</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">136,860</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">+44.6%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1979</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">160,664</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+17.4%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1989</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">173,385</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+7.9%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">2001</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">160,657</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">−7.3%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">2011</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">157,141</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">−2.2%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">2022</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">148,851</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">−5.3%</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);font-size:85%;text-align:left">Source: <sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr></tbody></table><p>According to the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Empire_census" title="Russian Empire census">1897 census</a>, <a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Ukraine" title="History of the Jews in Ukraine">Jews</a> made up 42% of the total population.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to the <a href="/wiki/2001_Ukrainian_census" title="2001 Ukrainian census">2001 Ukrainian census</a>, the population of the city was 160,352. Ukrainians made up 55.2% of the city's population, Russians 38.9%, and <a href="/wiki/Bulgarians_in_Ukraine" title="Bulgarians in Ukraine">Bulgarians</a> 1.8%. The exact ethnic composition was as follows:<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table style="margin:0; border:none;"><tbody><tr><td style="border:none; padding:0;"><div class="barbox" style="overflow-x: auto;"> <div style="border:1px solid silver; font-size:88%; padding:0.4em; width:auto; background: var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,white); color: var(--color-base,black)"> <table style="text-align:left; border-collapse:collapse; width:100%;"> <tbody><tr style="background:#ddd"><th style="text-align:center;" colspan="5">Ethnic groups in Melitopol</th></tr> <tr style="font-size:88%; height:4px;"> <td colspan="2" style="padding:0 4px; text-align:left;"></td> <td style="width:100px; text-align:left;"></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding:0 4px; width:1em; text-align:right;">percent</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><a href="/wiki/Ukrainians" title="Ukrainians">Ukrainians</a></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:dodgerblue; width:55.15%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">55.15%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><a href="/wiki/Russians_in_Ukraine" title="Russians in Ukraine">Russians</a></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:purple; width:38.89%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">38.89%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><a href="/wiki/Bulgarians" title="Bulgarians">Bulgarians</a></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:turquoise; width:1.81%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">1.81%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><a href="/wiki/Tatars" title="Tatars">Tatars</a></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:olive; width:0.80%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">0.80%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><a href="/wiki/Belarusians_in_Ukraine" title="Belarusians in Ukraine">Belarusians</a></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:red; width:0.76%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">0.76%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><a href="/wiki/Ashkenazi_Jews" title="Ashkenazi Jews">Jews</a></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:olive; width:0.30%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">0.30%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><a href="/wiki/Armenians" title="Armenians">Armenians</a></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:brown; width:0.27%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">0.27%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><a href="/wiki/Germans" title="Germans">Germans</a></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:blue; width:0.20%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">0.20%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><a href="/wiki/Azerbaijanis" title="Azerbaijanis">Azerbaijanis</a></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:green; width:0.17%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">0.17%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><a href="/wiki/Georgians" title="Georgians">Georgians</a></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:orange; width:0.08%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">0.08%</td> </tr> </tbody></table> </div> </div></td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Geography">Geography</h2></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Climate">Climate</h3></div> <p>Melitopol has a <a href="/wiki/Humid_continental_climate" title="Humid continental climate">humid continental climate</a> that borders on a <a href="/wiki/Humid_subtropical_climate" title="Humid subtropical climate">humid subtropical climate</a> (<i>Dfa</i> bordering on <i>Cfa</i> within the <a href="/wiki/K%C3%B6ppen_climate_classification" title="Köppen climate classification">Köppen climate classification</a>). The temperature is slightly below freezing in winter and hot in summer. January is the coolest month, having a mean of −1.8 °C (28.8 °F) and an average low of −4.5 °C (23.9 °F). February has a lower average low of −4.7 °C (23.5 °F). July is the warmest month, with a mean of 23.6 °C (74.5 °F) and an average high of 30.0 °C (86.0 °F). </p><p>Melitopol receives 488.8 millimetres (19.24 in) of precipitation annually. Precipitation is distributed evenly year-round, with no wet or dry season, although some months are wetter or have more precipitation days than others. June is the wettest month, receiving 57.5 millimetres (2.26 in) of rain on average. October is the driest month, receiving 32.9 millimetres (1.30 in) of rainfall. There are a similar amount of precipitation days each month. August has the least, with 4.3 days. December and January have the most, with 7.5 days. Melitopol has 75.2 precipitation days annually on average. Humidity is higher in winter than in summer. August is the least humid month. December is the most humid. </p> <div> <table class="wikitable mw-collapsible" style="width:auto; text-align:center; line-height:1.2em;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="14">Climate data for Melitopol (1981–2010 normals) </th></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Month </th> <th scope="col">Jan </th> <th scope="col">Feb </th> <th scope="col">Mar </th> <th scope="col">Apr </th> <th scope="col">May </th> <th scope="col">Jun </th> <th scope="col">Jul </th> <th scope="col">Aug </th> <th scope="col">Sep </th> <th scope="col">Oct </th> <th scope="col">Nov </th> <th scope="col">Dec </th> <th scope="col" style="border-left-width:medium">Year </th></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean daily maximum °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #EDEDFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">1.3<br />(34.3) </td> <td style="background: #F2F2FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">2.2<br />(36.0) </td> <td style="background: #FFE8D1; color:#000000;" class="notheme">7.8<br />(46.0) </td> <td style="background: #FFAF5F; color:#000000;" class="notheme">16.1<br />(61.0) </td> <td style="background: #FF8104; color:#000000;" class="notheme">22.7<br />(72.9) </td> <td style="background: #FF6400; color:#000000;" class="notheme">26.9<br />(80.4) </td> <td style="background: #FF4F00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">30.0<br />(86.0) </td> <td style="background: #FF5300; color:#000000;" class="notheme">29.4<br />(84.9) </td> <td style="background: #FF7E00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">23.2<br />(73.8) </td> <td style="background: #FFB164; color:#000000;" class="notheme">15.7<br />(60.3) </td> <td style="background: #FFEAD5; color:#000000;" class="notheme">7.5<br />(45.5) </td> <td style="background: #F3F3FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">2.4<br />(36.3) </td> <td style="background: #FFB368; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">15.4<br />(59.7) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Daily mean °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #DDDDFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−1.8<br />(28.8) </td> <td style="background: #DEDEFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−1.6<br />(29.1) </td> <td style="background: #F7F7FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">3.1<br />(37.6) </td> <td style="background: #FFD6AD; color:#000000;" class="notheme">10.4<br />(50.7) </td> <td style="background: #FFAC5A; color:#000000;" class="notheme">16.4<br />(61.5) </td> <td style="background: #FF8E1E; color:#000000;" class="notheme">20.8<br />(69.4) </td> <td style="background: #FF7B00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">23.6<br />(74.5) </td> <td style="background: #FF8104; color:#000000;" class="notheme">22.7<br />(72.9) </td> <td style="background: #FFA954; color:#000000;" class="notheme">16.9<br />(62.4) </td> <td style="background: #FFD6AD; color:#000000;" class="notheme">10.4<br />(50.7) </td> <td style="background: #FBFBFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">3.8<br />(38.8) </td> <td style="background: #E4E4FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−0.5<br />(31.1) </td> <td style="background: #FFD6AD; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">10.4<br />(50.7) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean daily minimum °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #CECEFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−4.5<br />(23.9) </td> <td style="background: #CDCDFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−4.7<br />(23.5) </td> <td style="background: #E4E4FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−0.4<br />(31.3) </td> <td style="background: #FFF7EF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">5.6<br />(42.1) </td> <td style="background: #FFD2A6; color:#000000;" class="notheme">10.9<br />(51.6) </td> <td style="background: #FFB46A; color:#000000;" class="notheme">15.3<br />(59.5) </td> <td style="background: #FFA449; color:#000000;" class="notheme">17.7<br />(63.9) </td> <td style="background: #FFA954; color:#000000;" class="notheme">16.9<br />(62.4) </td> <td style="background: #FFCD9B; color:#000000;" class="notheme">11.7<br />(53.1) </td> <td style="background: #FFF2E6; color:#000000;" class="notheme">6.3<br />(43.3) </td> <td style="background: #EBEBFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.9<br />(33.6) </td> <td style="background: #D5D5FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−3.1<br />(26.4) </td> <td style="background: #FFF3E8; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">6.1<br />(43.0) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Average <a href="/wiki/Precipitation" title="Precipitation">precipitation</a> mm (inches) </th> <td style="background: #C7FFC7; color:#000000;" class="notheme">37.1<br />(1.46) </td> <td style="background: #C4FFC4; color:#000000;" class="notheme">35.8<br />(1.41) </td> <td style="background: #CAFFCA; color:#000000;" class="notheme">35.4<br />(1.39) </td> <td style="background: #C6FFC6; color:#000000;" class="notheme">36.5<br />(1.44) </td> <td style="background: #BBFFBB; color:#000000;" class="notheme">45.5<br />(1.79) </td> <td style="background: #A6FFA6; color:#000000;" class="notheme">57.5<br />(2.26) </td> <td style="background: #BBFFBB; color:#000000;" class="notheme">45.2<br />(1.78) </td> <td style="background: #C6FFC6; color:#000000;" class="notheme">37.9<br />(1.49) </td> <td style="background: #C6FFC6; color:#000000;" class="notheme">37.0<br />(1.46) </td> <td style="background: #CDFFCD; color:#000000;" class="notheme">32.9<br />(1.30) </td> <td style="background: #BEFFBE; color:#000000;" class="notheme">42.0<br />(1.65) </td> <td style="background: #BAFFBA; color:#000000;" class="notheme">46.0<br />(1.81) </td> <td style="background: #C1FFC1; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">488.8<br />(19.24) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Average precipitation days <span style="font-size:90%;" class="nowrap">(≥ 1.0 mm)</span> </th> <td style="background: #A2A2FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">7.5 </td> <td style="background: #A2A2FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">6.8 </td> <td style="background: #A8A8FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">7.0 </td> <td style="background: #AEAEFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">6.3 </td> <td style="background: #A9A9FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">6.9 </td> <td style="background: #A4A4FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">7.1 </td> <td style="background: #BCBCFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">5.4 </td> <td style="background: #C9C9FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">4.3 </td> <td style="background: #C1C1FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">4.8 </td> <td style="background: #C5C5FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">4.7 </td> <td style="background: #A7A7FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">6.9 </td> <td style="background: #A2A2FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">7.5 </td> <td style="background: #B0B0FF; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">75.2 </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Average <a href="/wiki/Relative_humidity" class="mw-redirect" title="Relative humidity">relative humidity</a> (%) </th> <td style="background: #0000B6; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">85.7 </td> <td style="background: #0000C2; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">82.6 </td> <td style="background: #0000D4; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">77.7 </td> <td style="background: #0000F8; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">68.4 </td> <td style="background: #0808FF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">64.5 </td> <td style="background: #0505FF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">65.3 </td> <td style="background: #1515FF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">61.0 </td> <td style="background: #1A1AFF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">59.8 </td> <td style="background: #0000FB; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">67.5 </td> <td style="background: #0000DB; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">75.9 </td> <td style="background: #0000B7; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">85.3 </td> <td style="background: #0000B1; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">86.9 </td> <td style="background: #0000E5; color:#FFFFFF; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">73.4 </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="14" style="text-align:center;font-size:95%;">Source: <a href="/wiki/NCEI" class="mw-redirect" title="NCEI">NCEI</a><sup id="cite_ref-WMOCLINO_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WMOCLINO-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Culture">Culture</h2></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Melitopol_City_Hall.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Melitopol_City_Hall.JPG/250px-Melitopol_City_Hall.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="168" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Melitopol_City_Hall.JPG/330px-Melitopol_City_Hall.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Melitopol_City_Hall.JPG/500px-Melitopol_City_Hall.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3669" data-file-height="2809" /></a><figcaption>Melitopol City Hall</figcaption></figure> <p>There is a design project of the Intercultural Park, prepared by a group of European architects and designers led by Mark Glaudemans – Director of the European Laboratory for urban planning, the Dean of the Academy of Architecture and Urbanism (city of Tilburg, Netherlands).<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In Melitopol removed first short film in 2015, "The Zone". </p><p>Melitopol has 38 monuments, memorials and statues registered.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> One of them is the statue of <a href="/wiki/Bohdan_Khmelnytsky" title="Bohdan Khmelnytsky">Bohdan Khmelnytsky</a>, the famous <a href="/wiki/Hetman" title="Hetman">hetman</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Zaporozhian_Host" title="Zaporozhian Host">Zaporozhian Host</a>. His images are printed on Ukrainian 5 <a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_hryvnia" title="Ukrainian hryvnia">hryvnia's</a> banknotes. The other one represents Ostap Bender a hero of the book of <a href="/wiki/Ilf_and_Petrov" title="Ilf and Petrov">Ilf and Petrov</a> <i><a href="/wiki/The_Twelve_Chairs" title="The Twelve Chairs">The Twelve Chairs</a></i>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Melitopol_Monument_of_Bogdan_Khmelnitskyi_2006.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/76/Melitopol_Monument_of_Bogdan_Khmelnitskyi_2006.jpg/160px-Melitopol_Monument_of_Bogdan_Khmelnitskyi_2006.jpg" decoding="async" width="160" height="231" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/76/Melitopol_Monument_of_Bogdan_Khmelnitskyi_2006.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="238" data-file-height="343" /></a><figcaption>Statue of <a href="/wiki/Bohdan_Khmelnytsky" title="Bohdan Khmelnytsky">Bohdan Khmelnytsky</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Melitopol has a number of museums, including the <a href="/wiki/Melitopol_Museum_of_Local_History" title="Melitopol Museum of Local History">Melitopol Museum of Local History</a>, which holds a collection of 60,000 objects relating to the history, culture and environment of the city.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 10 March 2022, after the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Melitopol" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Melitopol">Russian attack on the city</a>, the director of the museum, Leila Ibragimova, was arrested at her home by Russian forces, was interrogated in an unknown location and later released.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Stone_Grave">The Stone Grave</h3></div> <p>There is the unique relic of <a href="/wiki/Kamyana_Mohyla" title="Kamyana Mohyla">the Stone Grave</a> (<a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_language" title="Ukrainian language">Ukrainian</a>: <span lang="uk">Кам'яна могила</span>, <a href="/wiki/Romanization_of_Ukrainian" title="Romanization of Ukrainian">translit.</a> <i>Kamyana mohyla</i>, <a href="/wiki/Russian_language" title="Russian language">Russian</a>: <span lang="ru">Каменная могила</span>) 12 km (7 mi) north of Melitopol. It is a relic of sandstone from the Sarmatian epoch of the <a href="/wiki/Tertiary_period" class="mw-redirect" title="Tertiary period">Tertiary period</a>. Its exact coordinates are <span class="geo-inline"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818" /><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Melitopol&params=46_56_59.33_N_35_28_11.59_E_"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">46°56′59.33″N</span> <span class="longitude">35°28′11.59″E</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">46.9498139°N 35.4698861°E</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">46.9498139; 35.4698861</span></span></span></a></span></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Melitopol_honey">Melitopol honey</h3></div> <p>The city actively created its own brand as a "city of honey", which is the translation of the Greek word "melitos". The city formed a cluster of honey producers, prepared investment projects for the establishment of an apitherapy center (treatment with the help of bee products) and encourages the creation of souvenir products made from honey.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Commemorative_silver_coin">Commemorative silver coin</h3></div> <p>In October 2013, the <a href="/wiki/National_Bank_of_Ukraine" title="National Bank of Ukraine">National Bank of Ukraine</a> introduced a new commemorative silver coin on the 70th anniversary of the Melitopol offensive against German troops and the liberation of the city of Melitopol on 23 October 1943. The new coin was called "The Breakthrough of Soviet Troops Against the German <a href="/wiki/Panther%E2%80%93Wotan_line" title="Panther–Wotan line">Defence Line Wotan</a> and liberation of Melitopol" and each of the 30,000 limited-edition coins was worth the equivalent of US-$ 5.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C_(%D0%B1%D1%83%D0%BA%D0%B2%D1%8B).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="The entrance to Melitopol"><img alt="The entrance to Melitopol" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C_%28%D0%B1%D1%83%D0%BA%D0%B2%D1%8B%29.jpg/120px-%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C_%28%D0%B1%D1%83%D0%BA%D0%B2%D1%8B%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C_%28%D0%B1%D1%83%D0%BA%D0%B2%D1%8B%29.jpg/180px-%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C_%28%D0%B1%D1%83%D0%BA%D0%B2%D1%8B%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C_%28%D0%B1%D1%83%D0%BA%D0%B2%D1%8B%29.jpg/240px-%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C_%28%D0%B1%D1%83%D0%BA%D0%B2%D1%8B%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2269" data-file-height="1518" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">The entrance to Melitopol</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:%D0%A4%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%B2_%D0%BF%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B5_%D0%93%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%8C%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Gorky park in Melitopol"><img alt="Gorky park in Melitopol" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/%D0%A4%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%B2_%D0%BF%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B5_%D0%93%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%8C%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE.jpg/120px-%D0%A4%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%B2_%D0%BF%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B5_%D0%93%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%8C%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/%D0%A4%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%B2_%D0%BF%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B5_%D0%93%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%8C%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE.jpg/180px-%D0%A4%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%B2_%D0%BF%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B5_%D0%93%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%8C%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/%D0%A4%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%B2_%D0%BF%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B5_%D0%93%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%8C%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE.jpg/240px-%D0%A4%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%B2_%D0%BF%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B5_%D0%93%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%8C%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2444" data-file-height="1636" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Gorky park in Melitopol</div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Economy">Economy</h2></div> <p>There is a well-developed, internationally important <a href="/wiki/Engine" title="Engine">engine</a>-constructing industry. Thanks to the rich historical heritage, economic and geographical situation and enterprising citizens the city has developed mechanical engineering, light and food industry. The city's development is driven by engineering industries, that have received new impulse with the establishment of more than 100 new small and medium engineering business enterprises, united in the cluster "AgroBOOM". </p><p>Machine engineering complex of the city is represented by 8 large plants and more than 100 small and medium-sized enterprises formed after 1991. Mechanical engineers of the city mainly produce goods for the agricultural sector. </p><p>Enterprises include: </p> <ul><li>The plant BIOL makes dishes,</li> <li>The PLANT OF INNOVATION TECHNOLOGIES is manufactures high-tech electronic equipment, software, high-frequency generators, equipment for ground handling of airliners (Airbus, Bombardier, Boeng, AN, Il, Tu), frequency converters for railway, urban transport, subway.</li> <li>The plant TALCO collaborates with General Motors and Festo.</li> <li>The plant AUTOPRIVOD is produces YaMZ engines.</li> <li>The only plant in Ukraine that produces engines for cars is AvtoZAZ-MOTOR.</li> <li>The plant AVTOTSVETLIT is the only plant in Ukraine that produces five types of complex castings (steel, cast iron, magnesium, and aluminium); it also produces shock absorbers for VAZ.</li> <li>The company ROSTA performs the commercialisation of research in agricultural machinery and irrigation systems.</li> <li>The plant MzTK is a unique enterprise that produces turbines for mobile equipment.</li> <li>The plant TERMOLIT induction furnaces for foundry operations and other products of metal processing.</li></ul> <p>The following companies can be called the basis of light industry in the city: </p> <ul><li>Melitopol Sewing Production Enterprise exports its goods. The factory has "dressed" the Air France and Polaris French railway employees, Dutch police and firefighters, and Italian tax police.</li> <li>Melitopol Knitting Factory Nadezhda is a manufacturer of knitwear products.</li> <li>Furniture production is well developed; more than 20 small and medium enterprises are working in this field, distributing its products throughout Ukraine.</li></ul> <p>Thanks to the proximity of the agricultural areas and raw materials of the <a href="/wiki/Zaporizhzhia" title="Zaporizhzhia">Zaporizhzhia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mykolaiv" title="Mykolaiv">Mykolaiv</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kherson" title="Kherson">Kherson</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Dnipropetrovsk" class="mw-redirect" title="Dnipropetrovsk">Dnipropetrovsk</a> regions, the food industry is well represented in the city. The main enterprises of the food industry are: </p> <ul><li>Melitopol Meat Processing Plant produces sausages.</li> <li>Melitopol Milk Plant and Oil Extraction Plant are enterprises that belong to a major food-holding, Olkom.</li> <li>Melitopol grain elevator.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Education">Education</h2></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Intellect_of_Ukraine7.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Intellect_of_Ukraine7.jpg/220px-Intellect_of_Ukraine7.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="144" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Intellect_of_Ukraine7.jpg/330px-Intellect_of_Ukraine7.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Intellect_of_Ukraine7.jpg/440px-Intellect_of_Ukraine7.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="524" /></a><figcaption>Students in Melitopol in 2016</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1874, a technical school was founded in the city which, after a series of reforms and transformations, became Tavria State Agrotechnological University. </p><p>The city now has two public universities − Tavria State Agrotechnological Academy<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Bohdan_Khmelnytsky_Melitopol_State_Pedagogical_University" title="Bohdan Khmelnytsky Melitopol State Pedagogical University">Bohdan Khmelnytsky Melitopol State Pedagogical University</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as well as a private institute – <a href="/wiki/Zaporozhye_Institute_of_Economics_and_Information_Technologies" class="mw-redirect" title="Zaporozhye Institute of Economics and Information Technologies">Zaporizhzhia Institute of Economics and Information Technologies</a>. </p><p>A long history of universities and schools is one of the reasons that Melitopol is called "the city of students". More than 10% of its citizens are students. </p><p>The strong system of education is represented by different types of educational institutions at all levels of accreditation: two universities, four branches of different universities in Ukraine, seven professional schools, and three colleges. </p><p>26 pre-schools are operating in the city, in which 6,000 young citizens are being educated. For more than 500 children with special needs under the age of seven years, there are rehabilitation programs to provide the needed services. </p><p>Educational services for 14,000 students are provided by 23 secondary schools. There is a center of labor training and professional orientation for young people. A network of six non-school institutions are the following: the Centre of Ecological-Naturalistic Art for Youth, the Center of Tourist and Local Lore Creativity for Youth, the Station of Young Technicians, the Vodvudenko Palace for Children and Teenagers Creativity, Small Academy of Sciences, and the Center of Children and Teenagers. Other creative centers unite nine communal hobby clubs. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Transportation">Transportation</h2></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Melitopol_Station_(Zaporizhia_Oblast,_Ukraine)_2.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Melitopol_Station_%28Zaporizhia_Oblast%2C_Ukraine%29_2.JPG/220px-Melitopol_Station_%28Zaporizhia_Oblast%2C_Ukraine%29_2.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="163" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Melitopol_Station_%28Zaporizhia_Oblast%2C_Ukraine%29_2.JPG/330px-Melitopol_Station_%28Zaporizhia_Oblast%2C_Ukraine%29_2.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Melitopol_Station_%28Zaporizhia_Oblast%2C_Ukraine%29_2.JPG/440px-Melitopol_Station_%28Zaporizhia_Oblast%2C_Ukraine%29_2.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3932" data-file-height="2910" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Melitopol_railway_station" title="Melitopol railway station">Melitopol railway station</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Aerodrome" title="Aerodrome">aerodrome</a> close to the city, where the <a href="/wiki/25th_Transport_Aviation_Brigade" title="25th Transport Aviation Brigade">25th Transport Aviation Brigade</a> is based, is not used for passenger services. </p><p>The two main highways leading through Melitopol are the M14 Odesa-Novoazovsk Highway and the M26 Kharkiv-Simferopol National Highway. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Melitopol_railway_station" title="Melitopol railway station">Melitopol railway station</a> acts as the transit point for passengers travelling between <a href="/wiki/Moscow" title="Moscow">Moscow</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Crimea" title="Crimea">Crimea</a>. The city is called the "gateway to the Crimea". </p><p>Melitopol has two bus stations, the older one operates local services, whereas buses from the newer station form part of the national bus service. The <a href="/wiki/Marshrutka" title="Marshrutka">marshrutkas</a>, which operate on 34 routes throughout the city, are the main type of public transport used. During the Soviet period, bus companies, including <a href="/wiki/Ikarus_Bus" class="mw-redirect" title="Ikarus Bus">Ikarus</a>, <a href="/wiki/LiAZ" class="mw-redirect" title="LiAZ">LiAZ</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lviv_Bus_Factory" title="Lviv Bus Factory">LAZ</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Pavlovo_Bus_Factory" title="Pavlovo Bus Factory">PAZ</a>, ran around 15 routes. </p><p>Melitopol's road network is 333 km (207 mi) long. 70% of the city's roads are of inadequate quality. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Twin_towns_–_sister_cities"><span id="Twin_towns_.E2.80.93_sister_cities"></span>Twin towns – sister cities</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_twin_towns_and_sister_cities_in_Ukraine" title="List of twin towns and sister cities in Ukraine">List of twin towns and sister cities in Ukraine</a></div> <p>Melitopol is <a href="/wiki/Twin_towns_and_sister_cities" class="mw-redirect" title="Twin towns and sister cities">twinned</a> with: </p> <ul><li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/France" title="France"><img alt="France" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/40px-Flag_of_France.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/60px-Flag_of_France.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Brive-la-Gaillarde" title="Brive-la-Gaillarde">Brive-la-Gaillarde</a>, <a href="/wiki/France" title="France">France</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Belarus" title="Belarus"><img alt="Belarus" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Flag_of_Belarus.svg/40px-Flag_of_Belarus.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Flag_of_Belarus.svg/60px-Flag_of_Belarus.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Barysaw" title="Barysaw">Barysaw</a>, <a href="/wiki/Belarus" title="Belarus">Belarus</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Belarus" title="Belarus"><img alt="Belarus" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Flag_of_Belarus.svg/40px-Flag_of_Belarus.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Flag_of_Belarus.svg/60px-Flag_of_Belarus.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Pukhavichy_Raion" class="mw-redirect" title="Pukhavichy Raion">Pukhavichy Raion</a>, Belarus</li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Lithuania" title="Lithuania"><img alt="Lithuania" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Flag_of_Lithuania.svg/40px-Flag_of_Lithuania.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Flag_of_Lithuania.svg/60px-Flag_of_Lithuania.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/K%C4%97dainiai" title="Kėdainiai">Kėdainiai</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lithuania" title="Lithuania">Lithuania</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Bulgaria" title="Bulgaria"><img alt="Bulgaria" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg/23px-Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg/35px-Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg/46px-Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Sliven" title="Sliven">Sliven</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bulgaria" title="Bulgaria">Bulgaria</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notable_people">Notable people</h2></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dmytro_Dontsov" title="Dmytro Dontsov">Dmytro Dontsov</a>, who influenced the establishment of the <a href="/wiki/Organization_of_Ukrainian_Nationalists" class="mw-redirect" title="Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists">Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists</a>, a right-wing group that strove for Ukrainian independence from the Soviet Union during the 1930s</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Lifshitz" title="Mikhail Lifshitz">Mikhail Lifshitz</a>, Soviet <a href="/wiki/Aesthetics" title="Aesthetics">philosopher of art</a> and <a href="/wiki/Literary_criticism" title="Literary criticism">literary critic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pavel_Sudoplatov" title="Pavel Sudoplatov">Pavel Sudoplatov</a>, Soviet <a href="/wiki/Intelligence_officer" title="Intelligence officer">intelligence officer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grigory_Chukhray" title="Grigory Chukhray">Grigory Chukhray</a>, Soviet <a href="/wiki/Film_director" title="Film director">film director</a> and <a href="/wiki/Screenwriter" title="Screenwriter">screenwriter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yevhen_Khacheridi" title="Yevhen Khacheridi">Yevhen Khacheridi</a>, professional footballer (born 1987)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shishi_Masaru" title="Shishi Masaru">Shishi Masaru</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sumo" title="Sumo">sumo</a> wrestler, first Ukrainian in the history of the sport to reach the status of <i><a href="/wiki/Sekitori" title="Sekitori">sekitori</a></i></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output 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class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">See the <a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Etymology">§Etymology</a> section for native and historical names</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626" /><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-ua2022estimate-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-ua2022estimate_2-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free 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.id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation book cs1 cs1-prop-script cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://db.ukrcensus.gov.ua/PXWEB2007/ukr/publ_new1/2022/zb_%D0%A1huselnist.pdf"><bdi lang="uk">Чисельність наявного населення України на 1 січня 2022</bdi></a> [<i>Number of Present Population of Ukraine, as of January 1, 2022</i>] <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span> (in Ukrainian and English). Kyiv: <a href="/wiki/State_Statistics_Service_of_Ukraine" title="State Statistics Service of Ukraine">State Statistics Service of Ukraine</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220704164521/https://ukrstat.gov.ua/druk/publicat/kat_u/2022/zb/05/zb_%D0%A1huselnist.pdf">Archived</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span> from the original on 4 July 2022.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=%D0%A7%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D1%96%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8C+%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE+%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D1%8F+%D0%A3%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%97%D0%BD%D0%B8+%D0%BD%D0%B0+1+%D1%81%D1%96%D1%87%D0%BD%D1%8F+2022&rft.place=Kyiv&rft.pub=State+Statistics+Service+of+Ukraine&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fdb.ukrcensus.gov.ua%2FPXWEB2007%2Fukr%2Fpubl_new1%2F2022%2Fzb_%25D0%25A1huselnist.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMelitopol" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Stepan_Lvovych_Rudnytskyi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Stepan Lvovych Rudnytskyi (page does not exist)">Stepan Lvovych Rudnytskyi</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%86%D1%8C%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%A1%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%9B%D1%8C%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87" class="extiw" title="uk:Рудницький Степан Львович">uk</a>]</span> «<a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_Ukraine,_1918.png" class="extiw" title="c:File:Map of Ukraine, 1918.png">Карта України</a>» (<abbr title="translation">transl.</abbr> 'Map of Ukraine'). — Vienna: Freytag and Berndt, 1918.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Administrative_map_of_the_Ukrainian_Socialist_Soviet_Republic,_1927.png" class="extiw" title="c:File:Administrative map of the Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic, 1927.png">Administrative map of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1927</a>. Territorial division under a three-tier system of governance. Administrative boundaries on March 1, 1927. Scale 1:1,250,000. ‒ M.: Publication of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs of the USSR and the State Publishing House of Ukraine [1927].</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Administrative_map_of_the_Ukrainian_Socialist_Soviet_Republic,_1922.png" class="extiw" title="c:File:Administrative map of the Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic, 1922.png">Administrative map of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1922</a>: January 1922 r./ People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs Affairs; structure. S. Hurgin. — 1:1 680 000; 40 c. in 1 inch. — <a href="/wiki/Kharkiv" title="Kharkiv">Kharkiv</a>. — 1 p.: color., tab. Adm. division, stamp</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/GermanRussian/2000-10/0971922660">"Richard Konkel, genealogist"</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Richard+Konkel%2C+genealogist&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Farchiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com%2Fth%2Fread%2FGermanRussian%2F2000-10%2F0971922660&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMelitopol" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">i.e. <b>Meli</b>to<b>pol</b>, this is how Melitopol sometimes is referred in the local mass-media</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bundesarchiv.de/zwangsarbeit/haftstaetten/index.php?action=2.2&tab=7&id=770">"Gefängnis Melitopol'<span class="cs1-kern-right"></span>"</a>. <i>Bundesarchiv.de</i> (in German)<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">26 February</span> 2022</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Bundesarchiv.de&rft.atitle=Gef%C3%A4ngnis+Melitopol%27&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bundesarchiv.de%2Fzwangsarbeit%2Fhaftstaetten%2Findex.php%3Faction%3D2.2%26tab%3D7%26id%3D770&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMelitopol" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60670173">"<span class="cs1-kern-left"></span>'We are not co-operating': Life in occupied Ukraine"</a>. <i>BBC News</i>. 9 March 2022<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">23 March</span> 2022</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=BBC+News&rft.atitle=%27We+are+not+co-operating%27%3A+Life+in+occupied+Ukraine&rft.date=2022-03-09&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.com%2Fnews%2Fworld-europe-60670173&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMelitopol" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-cnn-melitopol-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-cnn-melitopol_10-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-cnn-melitopol_10-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://edition.cnn.com/europe/live-news/ukraine-russia-putin-news-03-23-22/h_bbb8ed2b3b46186e9a66afb142f12c70">"Melitopol mayor accuses Russians of seizing businesses in the city"</a>. CNN. 23 March 2022<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">23 March</span> 2022</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Melitopol+mayor+accuses+Russians+of+seizing+businesses+in+the+city&rft.date=2022-03-23&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fedition.cnn.com%2Feurope%2Flive-news%2Fukraine-russia-putin-news-03-23-22%2Fh_bbb8ed2b3b46186e9a66afb142f12c70&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMelitopol" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-0313PRAVDA_17330955-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-0313PRAVDA_17330955_11-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-0313PRAVDA_17330955_11-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation news cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2022/03/13/7330955/">"Міськрада Мелітополя називає в.о мера від окупантів державною зрадницею"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%97%D0%BD%D1%81%D1%8C%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B4%D0%B0" class="mw-redirect" title="Українська правда">Українська правда</a></i> (in Ukrainian). 13 March 2022<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">13 March</span> 2022</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=%D0%A3%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%97%D0%BD%D1%81%D1%8C%D0%BA%D0%B0+%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B4%D0%B0&rft.atitle=%D0%9C%D1%96%D1%81%D1%8C%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B0+%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%96%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8F+%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%94+%D0%B2.%D0%BE+%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B0+%D0%B2%D1%96%D0%B4+%D0%BE%D0%BA%D1%83%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%82%D1%96%D0%B2+%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B6%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%8E+%D0%B7%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%86%D0%B5%D1%8E&rft.date=2022-03-13&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pravda.com.ua%2Fnews%2F2022%2F03%2F13%2F7330955%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMelitopol" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/bomb-hits-russian-occupied-ukraine-city-melitopol-russian-ukraine-officials-2022-05-30/">"Bomb hits Russian-occupied Ukraine city of Melitopol - Russian, Ukraine officials"</a>. <i>Reuters</i>. 30 May 2022<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">3 June</span> 2022</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Reuters&rft.atitle=Bomb+hits+Russian-occupied+Ukraine+city+of+Melitopol+-+Russian%2C+Ukraine+officials&rft.date=2022-05-30&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Fworld%2Feurope%2Fbomb-hits-russian-occupied-ukraine-city-melitopol-russian-ukraine-officials-2022-05-30%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMelitopol" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.svoboda.org/amp/okkupatsionnye-vlasti-melitopolya-vernuli-ulitsam-sovetskie-nazvaniya-/32247030.html">"Оккупационные власти Мелитополя вернули улицам советские названия"</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-bbc27-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-bbc27_14-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFGreenall2023" class="citation news cs1">Greenall, Robert (27 April 2023). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65414836">"Ukraine war: Partisan attack kills police chief in Russian-occupied Melitopol"</a>. BBC.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Ukraine+war%3A+Partisan+attack+kills+police+chief+in+Russian-occupied+Melitopol&rft.date=2023-04-27&rft.aulast=Greenall&rft.aufirst=Robert&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.com%2Fnews%2Fworld-europe-65414836&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMelitopol" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://pop-stat.mashke.org/ukraine-cities.htm">"Cities & Towns of Ukraine"</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Cities+%26+Towns+of+Ukraine&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fpop-stat.mashke.org%2Fukraine-cities.htm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMelitopol" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.esjf-cemeteries.org/survey/melitopil-jewish-cemetery/">"Melitopil Jewish Cemetery"</a>. European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative. 10 May 2021.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Melitopil+Jewish+Cemetery&rft.pub=European+Jewish+Cemeteries+Initiative&rft.date=2021-05-10&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.esjf-cemeteries.org%2Fsurvey%2Fmelitopil-jewish-cemetery%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMelitopol" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://datatowel.in.ua/pop-composition/ethnic-cities">"Національний склад міст"</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=%D0%9D%D0%B0%D1%86%D1%96%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B9+%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B4+%D0%BC%D1%96%D1%81%D1%82&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fdatatowel.in.ua%2Fpop-composition%2Fethnic-cities&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMelitopol" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-WMOCLINO-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-WMOCLINO_18-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210717143555/https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/normals/WMO/1981-2010/RA-VI/Ukraine/12.6.%20WMO_Normals_Excel_Template%20%282%29.xls">"World Meteorological Organization Climate Normals for 1981–2010"</a>. National Centers for Environmental Information. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/normals/WMO/1981-2010/RA-VI/Ukraine/12.6.%20WMO_Normals_Excel_Template%20(2).xls">the original</a> <span class="cs1-format">(XLS)</span> on 17 July 2021<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">18 July</span> 2021</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=World+Meteorological+Organization+Climate+Normals+for+1981%E2%80%932010&rft.pub=National+Centers+for+Environmental+Information&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncei.noaa.gov%2Fpub%2Fdata%2Fnormals%2FWMO%2F1981-2010%2FRA-VI%2FUkraine%2F12.6.%2520WMO_Normals_Excel_Template%2520%282%29.xls&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMelitopol" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121030095442/http://invest-melitopol.org/">"Melitopol investment portal"</a>. <i>invest-melitopol.org</i>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://invest-melitopol.org">the original</a> on 2012-10-30.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=invest-melitopol.org&rft.atitle=Melitopol+investment+portal&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Finvest-melitopol.org&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMelitopol" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The data from Melitopol's official site – <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://mlt.gov.ua/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=555&Itemid=44">mlt.gov.ua (uk.)</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111004105247/http://mlt.gov.ua/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=555&Itemid=44">Archived</a> 2011-10-04 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-:0-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-:0_21-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.mgk.zp.ua/material/12.html">"Мелитопольский городской краеведческий музей - MGK Мелитополь"</a>. <i>mgk.zp.ua</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2022-03-10</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=mgk.zp.ua&rft.atitle=%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9+%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B4%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B9+%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%B4%D1%87%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9+%D0%BC%D1%83%D0%B7%D0%B5%D0%B9+-+MGK+%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mgk.zp.ua%2Fmaterial%2F12.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMelitopol" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-22">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220310163923/https://rubryka.com/en/2022/03/10/u-okupovanomu-melitopoli-zagarbnyky-vykraly-deputata-oblrady/">"In occupied Melitopol, invaders kidnapped a deputy of regional council"</a>. <i>Rubryka</i>. 2022-03-10. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://rubryka.com/en/2022/03/10/u-okupovanomu-melitopoli-zagarbnyky-vykraly-deputata-oblrady/">the original</a> on 2022-03-10<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Cistran Finance. 21 October 2013. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://cistranfinance.com/national-bank-of-ukraine-issues-commemorative-coin/">the original</a> on 29 October 2013<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">25 October</span> 2013</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=National+Bank+of+Ukraine+issues+commemorative+coin&rft.pub=Cistran+Finance&rft.date=2013-10-21&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fcistranfinance.com%2Fnational-bank-of-ukraine-issues-commemorative-coin%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMelitopol" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-25">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.tsaa.org.ua">Tavria State Agrotechnological Academy</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140209123257/http://www.tsaa.org.ua/">Archived</a> 2014-02-09 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> official site</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-26">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.mdpu.org.ua">Melitopol State Pedagogical University</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220225055123/https://mdpu.org.ua/">Archived</a> 2022-02-25 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> official site</span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2></div> <ul><li><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Commons-logo.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/20px-Commons-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/40px-Commons-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="1376" /></a></span> Media related to <a 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title="Lviv">Lviv</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kryvyi_Rih" title="Kryvyi Rih">Kryvyi Rih</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">200,000-500,000</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mykolaiv" title="Mykolaiv">Mykolaiv</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mariupol" title="Mariupol">Mariupol</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Luhansk" title="Luhansk">Luhansk</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Makiivka" title="Makiivka">Makiivka</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vinnytsia" title="Vinnytsia">Vinnytsia</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Simferopol" title="Simferopol">Simferopol</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sevastopol" title="Sevastopol">Sevastopol</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kherson" title="Kherson">Kherson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Poltava" title="Poltava">Poltava</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chernihiv" title="Chernihiv">Chernihiv</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cherkasy" title="Cherkasy">Cherkasy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sumy" title="Sumy">Sumy</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Horlivka" title="Horlivka">Horlivka</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zhytomyr" title="Zhytomyr">Zhytomyr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kamianske,_Kamianske_Raion" class="mw-redirect" title="Kamianske, Kamianske Raion">Kamianske</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kropyvnytskyi" title="Kropyvnytskyi">Kropyvnytskyi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khmelnytskyi" title="Khmelnytskyi">Khmelnytskyi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rivne" title="Rivne">Rivne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chernivtsi" title="Chernivtsi">Chernivtsi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kremenchuk" title="Kremenchuk">Kremenchuk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ternopil" title="Ternopil">Ternopil</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ivano-Frankivsk" title="Ivano-Frankivsk">Ivano-Frankivsk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lutsk" title="Lutsk">Lutsk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bila_Tserkva" title="Bila Tserkva">Bila Tserkva</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">100,000-200,000</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kramatorsk" title="Kramatorsk">Kramatorsk</a></li> <li><i><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Melitopol</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Kerch" title="Kerch">Kerch</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nikopol,_Ukraine" title="Nikopol, Ukraine">Nikopol</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sloviansk" title="Sloviansk">Sloviansk</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Berdiansk" title="Berdiansk">Berdiansk</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sievierodonetsk" title="Sievierodonetsk">Sievierodonetsk</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Alchevsk" title="Alchevsk">Alchevsk</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pavlohrad" title="Pavlohrad">Pavlohrad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uzhhorod" title="Uzhhorod">Uzhhorod</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brovary" title="Brovary">Brovary</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Yevpatoria" title="Yevpatoria">Yevpatoria</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div> <ul><li><i>Cities located in <a href="/wiki/Russian-occupied_territories_of_Ukraine" title="Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine">Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374" /><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235" /></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Administrative_divisions_of_Zaporizhzhia_Oblast271" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" 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Oblast</a></div></th></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div><a href="/wiki/Administrative_centre" title="Administrative centre">Administrative center</a>: <b><a href="/wiki/Zaporizhzhia" title="Zaporizhzhia">Zaporizhzhia</a></b></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Raions_of_Ukraine" title="Raions of Ukraine">Raions</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Berdiansk_Raion" title="Berdiansk Raion">Berdiansk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melitopol_Raion" title="Melitopol Raion">Melitopol</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polohy_Raion" title="Polohy Raion">Polohy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vasylivka_Raion" title="Vasylivka Raion">Vasylivka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zaporizhzhia_Raion" title="Zaporizhzhia Raion">Zaporizhzhia</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_hromadas_of_Ukraine" title="List of hromadas of Ukraine">Hromadas</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Andriivka_settlement_hromada" title="Andriivka settlement hromada">Andriivka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrivka_rural_hromada" title="Andrivka rural hromada">Andrivka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Berdiansk_urban_hromada" title="Berdiansk urban hromada">Berdiansk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Berestove_rural_hromada" title="Berestove rural hromada">Berestove</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bilenke_rural_hromada" title="Bilenke rural hromada">Bilenke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blahovishchenka_rural_hromada" title="Blahovishchenka rural hromada">Blahovishchenka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chernihivka_settlement_hromada" title="Chernihivka settlement hromada">Chernihivka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chkalove_rural_hromada,_Zaporizhzhia_Oblast" title="Chkalove rural hromada, Zaporizhzhia Oblast">Chkalove</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dniprorudne_urban_hromada" title="Dniprorudne urban hromada">Dniprorudne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dolynske_rural_hromada,_Zaporizhzhia_Oblast" title="Dolynske rural hromada, Zaporizhzhia Oblast">Dolynske</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Enerhodar_urban_hromada" class="mw-redirect" title="Enerhodar urban hromada">Enerhodar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fedorivka_rural_hromada" title="Fedorivka rural hromada">Fedorivka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Huliaipole_urban_hromada" title="Huliaipole urban hromada">Huliaipole</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kamianka_settlement_hromada" title="Kamianka settlement hromada">Kamianka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kamianka-Dniprovska_urban_hromada" title="Kamianka-Dniprovska urban hromada">Kamianka-Dniprovska</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Komysh-Zoria_settlement_hromada" title="Komysh-Zoria settlement hromada">Komysh-Zoria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Komyshuvakha_settlement_hromada" title="Komyshuvakha settlement hromada">Komyshuvakha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kostiantynivka_rural_hromada,_Zaporizhzhia_Oblast" title="Kostiantynivka rural hromada, Zaporizhzhia Oblast">Kostiantynivka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kushuhum_settlement_hromada" title="Kushuhum settlement hromada">Kushuhum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kyrylivka_settlement_hromada" title="Kyrylivka settlement hromada">Kyrylivka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mala_Bilozerka_rural_hromada" title="Mala Bilozerka rural hromada">Mala Bilozerka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mala_Tokmachka_rural_hromada" title="Mala Tokmachka rural hromada">Mala Tokmachka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malynivka_rural_hromada" title="Malynivka rural hromada">Malynivka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Matviivka_rural_hromada" title="Matviivka rural hromada">Matviivka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melitopol_urban_hromada" class="mw-redirect" title="Melitopol urban hromada">Melitopol</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Molochansk_urban_hromada" title="Molochansk urban hromada">Molochansk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mykhailivka_rural_hromada,_Zaporizhzhia_Oblast" title="Mykhailivka rural hromada, Zaporizhzhia Oblast">Mykhailivka rural</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mykhailivka_settlement_hromada" title="Mykhailivka settlement hromada">Mykhailivka settlement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mykhailo-Lukasheve_rural_hromada" title="Mykhailo-Lukasheve rural hromada">Mykhailo-Lukasheve</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Myrne_settlement_hromada,_Zaporizhzhia_Oblast" title="Myrne settlement hromada, Zaporizhzhia Oblast">Myrne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nove_rural_hromada,_Zaporizhzhia_Oblast" title="Nove rural hromada, Zaporizhzhia Oblast">Nove</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Novobohdanivka_rural_hromada" title="Novobohdanivka rural hromada">Novobohdanivka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Novomykolaivka_settlement_hromada" title="Novomykolaivka settlement hromada">Novomykolaivka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Novooleksandrivka_rural_hromada" title="Novooleksandrivka rural hromada">Novooleksandrivka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Novouspenivka_rural_hromada" title="Novouspenivka rural hromada">Novouspenivka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Novovasylivka_settlement_hromada" title="Novovasylivka settlement hromada">Novovasylivka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oleksandrivka_rural_hromada" title="Oleksandrivka rural hromada">Oleksandrivka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orikhiv_urban_hromada" title="Orikhiv urban hromada">Orikhiv</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Osypenko_rural_hromada" title="Osypenko rural hromada">Osypenko</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pavlivske_rural_hromada" title="Pavlivske rural hromada">Pavlivske</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Petro-Mykhailivka_rural_hromada" title="Petro-Mykhailivka rural hromada">Petro-Mykhailivka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Plodorodne_rural_hromada" title="Plodorodne rural hromada">Plodorodne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polohy_urban_hromada" title="Polohy urban hromada">Polohy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Preobrazhenka_rural_hromada" title="Preobrazhenka rural hromada">Preobrazhenka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pryazovske_settlement_hromada" title="Pryazovske settlement hromada">Pryazovske</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prymorsk_urban_hromada" title="Prymorsk urban hromada">Prymorsk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rozdol_rural_hromada" title="Rozdol rural hromada">Rozdol</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rozivka_settlement_hromada" title="Rozivka settlement hromada">Rozivka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Semenivka_rural_hromada" title="Semenivka rural hromada">Semenivka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shyroke_rural_hromada,_Zaporizhzhia_Oblast" title="Shyroke rural hromada, Zaporizhzhia Oblast">Shyroke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Smyrnove_rural_hromada" title="Smyrnove rural hromada">Smyrnove</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sofiivka_rural_hromada" title="Sofiivka rural hromada">Sofiivka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stepne_rural_hromada,_Zaporizhzhia_Oblast" title="Stepne rural hromada, Zaporizhzhia Oblast">Stepne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stepnohirsk_settlement_hromada" title="Stepnohirsk settlement hromada">Stepnohirsk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tavriiske_rural_hromada" title="Tavriiske rural hromada">Tavriiske</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ternuvate_settlement_hromada" title="Ternuvate settlement hromada">Ternuvate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Terpinnia_rural_hromada" title="Terpinnia rural hromada">Terpinnia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tokmak_urban_hromada" title="Tokmak urban hromada">Tokmak</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vasylivka_urban_hromada" title="Vasylivka urban hromada">Vasylivka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Velyka_Bilozerka_rural_hromada" title="Velyka Bilozerka rural hromada">Velyka Bilozerka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vesele_settlement_hromada" title="Vesele settlement hromada">Vesele</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vilniansk_urban_hromada" title="Vilniansk urban hromada">Vilniansk</a></li> <li><a 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