October 28th, 2025

Melitopol Wikipedia

The aerodrome close to the city, where the 25th Transport Aviation Brigade is based, is not used for passenger services. The city now has two public universities − Tavria State Agrotechnological Academy25 and Bohdan patyicivil.hu Khmelnytsky Melitopol State Pedagogical University,26 as well as a private institute – Zaporizhzhia Institute of Economics and Information Technologies. Both Ukrainian and Russian names are based on the Greek name Μελιτόπολις, lit.

Zaporozhian Sich centers and locations

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. Some of those who were not accepted to the host formed gangs of their own, and also claimed to be Cossacks. However, after the Khmelnytsky Uprising these formations largely disappeared and were integrated mainly into Hetmanate society. The Zaporozhian Sicha or Zaporizhian Sich,b also known as the Free lands of the Zaporozhian Host the Lower,c was a semi-autonomous polity and proto-state12 of Zaporozhian Cossacks that existed between the 16th to 18th centuries. For the latter part of that period, it was an autonomous stratocratic state within the Cossack Hetmanate.131415 The lands of Zaporozhian Sich were centred around the Great Meadow region of Ukraine, spanning the lower Dnieper river. In different periods the area came under the sovereignty of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Ottoman Empire, the Tsardom of Russia, and the Russian Empire.

• He was aided by a head secretary (pysar), head judge, and head archivist.
• The Cossack officer class was incorporated into the Russian nobility (Dvoryanstvo).
• Mechanical engineers of the city mainly produce goods for the agricultural sector.
• Their campaigns were targeted at rich settlements on the Black Sea shores of the Ottoman Empire, and several times took them as far as Constantinople30 and Trabzon (formerly Trebizond).

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 Μέλι (meli) – “honey”) which had been situated on the mouth of the Molochna River. At the end of the 19th century, the “Honey-city”6 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. There is a well-developed, internationally important engine-constructing industry.

Melitopol honey

The area was also known under the historical term Wild Fields. The term Zaporozhian Sich can also refer metonymically and informally to the whole military-administrative organisation of the Zaporozhian Cossack host. On 5 October 1941, as a result of the German offensive, Soviet troops fled the city and it was occupied by the Wehrmacht.1112 On 16 September 1943, it was liberated by the Soviet troops of the Southern Front during the Donbas strategic offensive. From 1884 until the First World War, Zemstvo exhibitions and auctions of agricultural and industrial products took place in Huliaipole every three years. Along with industrial enterprises, in the village there were a dozen small, semi-artisanal productions – a crew workshop, several potters, as well as oil mills, smithies, carpentry and other workshops.

A Cossack military court severely punished violence and stealing among compatriots, the bringing of women to the Sich, the consumption of alcohol in periods of conflict, and other offenses. The administration of the Sich provided Orthodox churches and schools for the religious and secular education of children. From the middle of the 19th to the beginning of the 20th century, the village of Huliaipole was transformed into a commercial and industrial town.

There were two agricultural machinery factories, four distilleries and one brewery in Huliaipole. There were three steam mills in Huliaipole and dozens more in the surrounding villages and economies that were part of Huliaipole parish. Besides them, there were a large number of peasant “windmills” around. In addition, there were two brick and tile factories in Huliaipole and twelve in villages and hamlets. Melitopol railway station acts as the transit point for passengers travelling between Moscow and the Crimea. Fighting lasted long, as the Germans introduced fresh reserves in order to keep Melitopol.