باشتانكا

Bashtanka Баштанка
City
House of Culture in Bashtanka House of Culture in Bashtanka
علم Bashtanka Flag
Bashtanka Location of Bashtanka Bashtanka Bashtanka (Mykolaiv Oblast)
الإحداثيات: 47°24′20″N 32°26′15″E
Country	أوكرانيا
Oblast	Mykolaiv Oblast
Raion	Bashtanka Raion
Hromada	Bashtanka urban hromada
Founded	1806
City rights	1987
الحكومة
• Mayor	Volodymyr Rybachenko
المساحة
• الإجمالي	7٫14 كم² (2٫76 ميل²)
التعداد  (2022)
• الإجمالي	12٬180
• الكثافة	1٬700/km2 (4٬400/sq mi)
Postal code	56100-56109
مفتاح الهاتف	+380-5158

Bashtanka (أوكرانية: Баштанка, تـُنطق [bɐʃˈtɑnkɐ]) is a city in Mykolaiv Oblast, Ukraine. It is the administrative center of Bashtanka Raion. Bashtanka hosts the administration of Bashtanka urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population: 12,180 (2022 estimate). In 2001, population was 13,146.

History

Originally known as Poltavka, Bashtanka was granted urban-type settlement status in 1963.

During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, on 1 March, 600 Russian soldiers in a column of about 250-300 military vehicles with the letter Z launched an offensive on Bashtanka after passing through Yavkyne. The Ukrainian Territorial Defense and local residents fired on the convoy, which retreated in disarray after entering the center of the city. Over the next few days, 28 Russian soldiers were found in and around Bashtanka hiding in basements and nearby villages.

Bashtanka was shelled with Grad missiles after the Russian retreat. One of the most serious bombardments, which involved cluster munitions, took place on the morning of 13 March 2022.

As of April 2022, 176 houses in the Bashtanka urban hromada had been destroyed, and only about 30% of the pre-war population remained in the city.

On 20 April, a hospital was reportedly hit by a Russian missile.

Demographics

As of the 2001 Ukrainian census, Bashtanka had a population of 13,072, which decreased to 12,180 in early 2022. The population is ethnically overwhelmingly Ukrainian, but also contains small minority groups from the Post-Soviet Realm. The exact ethnic and linguitic composition was as follows:

Ethnic groups in Bashtanka percent Ukrainians    93.67% Russians    4.30% Belarusians    0.86% Moldovans    0.40% Armenians    0.27% Bulgarians    0.10% others    0.40%

First languages (2001) percent Ukrainian    95.0% Russian    4.1% Moldovan    0.3% Armenian    0.2% Belarusian    0.2% others    0.1%