Chornomorsk, Odesa Oblast, Ukraine

Geography | History | Economy : Train ferry service to Bulgaria | Industries

🇺🇦 Chornomorsk (Чорномо́рськ), formerly Illichivsk is a city in the Odesa Raion, Odessa Oblast of south-western Ukraine, dependent on the Port of Chornomorsk. The city is located around the Sukhyi Estuary.

Originally, the city was established as a satellite town of Odesa.

Geography Chornomorsk is situated on the coast of the Black Sea, 12 miles (20 km) south from Odesa.

History Before the construction of a port with a city, the region was the site of a number of unorganized farmsteads and hamlets (khutir) that were collectively known as Buhovi khutory (Ukrainian: Бугові Хутори) that were located on agricultural lots of a local landowner Andriy Buhovyi. After establishing of the Soviet regime and "nationalization" and collectivization of the area, in 1927 the settlement was renamed into Illichivskyi Khutir.

In 1952 a port was established, and its surrounding territory was urbanized and converted into a city of Illichivsk. The city was designed to become a new home for the Black Sea Shipping Company (then the largest passenger and commercial vessel operator in the world). Originally a builder's trailer village, Chornomorsk has expanded to become Ukraine's most prosperous town by income per capita. Residents are mostly employed by the port (one of the largest ports of Europe) and the maritime industry. Residents of Odesa have recently begun relocating to lower-cost but higher-income Chornomorsk.

On 15 May 2015 President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko signed a bill into law which began a six months period for the removal of communist monuments and the mandatory renaming of settlements with names related to Communism. On 12 November 2015, the city council decided to rename the city to Chornomorsk (after the Black Sea coast upon which the city is found). The decision was confirmed by the Verkhovna Rada (the Ukrainian parliament) on 4 February 2016. The city was originally named after Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Soviet Union.

Until 18 July 2020, Chornomorsk was incorporated as a city of oblast significance and the centre of Illichivsk Municipality. The municipality was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Odesa Oblast to seven. The area of Illichivsk Municipality was merged into Odesa Raion.

Economy: Train ferry service to Bulgaria Chornomorsk was connected by freight train ferry line (426 km) to Varna in Bulgaria in 1978. Four train ferries two Soviet and two Bulgarian ones, named "Hero of Odesa", "Hero of Sevastopol" and "Hero of Schipka", "Hero of Pleven" which could take in three decks a total of 108 two bogie (four axle) Soviet freight cars. In the first ten-year period (1978–1988), these train ferries had transported 1,000,000 freight cars between Illichivsk and Varna. This train ferry service took 17 hours in both directions. The Bulgarians built break of gauge apparatus at Varna which made it possible to change bogies of 24 freight cars in one hour thirty minutes.

Industries Chornomorsk's economy is largely oriented to the sea. The biggest employer is the Port of Chornomorsk. The headquarters and manufacturing facilities of "Antarctica" (Ukraine's largest fishing company) are located in the city, and other major maritime shipping companies have also chosen to open their offices there.

The city also has a freight railway station. The port is on one of the freight routes of China's proposed Eurasian Land Bridge (part of the "New Silk Road"), which would see an eastern link to China via ferry to Georgia, Azerbaijan and across the Caspian Sea, and a western link by train to western Europe.

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Chornomorsk has a population of over 58,520 people. Chornomorsk also forms one of the centres of the wider Odessa metropolitan area which has a population of over 2,377,230 people.

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Twin Towns, Sister Cities Chornomorsk has links with:

🇹🇷 Beyoğlu, Turkey 🇨🇳 Haikou, China 🇪🇪 Maardu, Estonia 🇮🇹 Municipio XV, Italy 🇬🇪 Poti, Georgia 🇨🇳 Siming District, China 🇷🇴 Sinaia, Romania 🇬🇪 Sukhumi, Georgia 🇵🇱 Tczew, Poland 🇨🇳 Xiamen, China
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Antipodal to Chornomorsk is: -149.345,-46.304

Locations Near: Chornomorsk 30.6552,46.3038

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