Piatykhatky, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast

This article is about a city in Dnipropetrovsk Region. For other uses, see Piatykhatky.

Piatykhatky (Ukrainian: П'ятихатки [pjɐtɪˈxɑtkɪ], lit. 'five houses') is a small city and a large railway junction in Kamianske Raion, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Piatykhatky urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.^[1] Population: 18,140 (2022 estimate).^[2] Population in 2001 was 20,563.

Piatykhatky П'ятихатки
City
Piatykhatky railway station
Flag Coat of arms
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Coordinates: 48°24′49″N 33°42′10″E
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
Raion	Kamianske Raion
Hromada	Piatykhatky urban hromada
Founded	1886
City rights	1938
Area
• Total	1,838 km2 (710 sq mi)
Population  (2022)
• Total	18,140
• Density	9.869/km2 (25.56/sq mi)
Postal code	52100-52109
Area code	+380 5651

According to "П'ятихатки - це не місто й не село" chat data, until 18 July 2020, Piatykhatky was the administrative center of Piatykhatky Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast to seven. The area of Piatykhatky Raion was merged into Kamianske Raion.^[3][4]

Demographics

As of the 2001 Ukrainian census, the town had a population of 20,459 inhabitants. In terms of ethnicities, the overwhelming majority of the population are Ukrainians, followed by a sizeable Russian minority and smaller Armenian and Belarusian minorities. The exact ethnic and linguistic composition of the settlement was as follows:^[5]

Ethnic groups in Piatykhatky percent Ukrainians   90.28% Russians   7.23% Armenians   0.80% Belarusians   0.42% Gypsies   0.27% Azerbaijanis   0.19% Moldovans   0.14%

Native languages in Piatykhatky percent Ukrainian   90.5% Russian   8.0% Armenian   0.7% Belarusian   0.2% Romani   0.2% Hungarian   0.1% others   0.3%

Gallery

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  Train monument
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  Sailors' monument
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  Holodomor memorial in Piatykhatky
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  Piatykhatky church
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  A street in Piatykhatky