Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine
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Khmelnytskyi is a city in Ukraine
in the region of Podillia. It is located on the Southern Buh
River and about 340 km (211 mi) from the Ukrainian capital, Kiev
. The town's original name was Płoskirów, later Proskurov, but in 1954 was renamed Khmelnytskyi. It is the center of the Khmelnytskyi Oblast
(province
) in western Ukraine. The alternative transliteration
s of the name include Khmel’nyts’kyỹ, Khmel’nyts’kyy, Khmelnitsky, and Khmelnitskiy. The city is served by Khmelnytskyi Ruzhychna Airport. As of 2009, the city's population is 290,100.
Khmelnytskyi should not be confused with Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi
, a city in Ukraine's Kyiv Oblast.
The football
team FC Dynamo Khmelnytskyi is based in Khmelnytskyi.
.
A series of pogrom
s were carried out in the region known in the history as the Proskurov pogrom. Particularly, that event was brought up during the Schwartzbard mistrial
after which the Petliura's assassin was pardoned on the grounds of self-trail (revenge
). According to Vinnytsia's city archives the pogrom was conducted on the Friday night February 15, 1919 by one of the otamans (generals) of the Ukrainian People's Army Otaman Semysenko. In total 390 men, 309 women and 76 children were killed in the pogrom, and further 500 individuals were wounded. The chief Otaman Petliura was appointed the head of state just two days prior to the tragedy on February 13. Petliura issued the Order 131 in which he mentioned the fact that numerous Jewish parties in Ukraine (Bund, Poale Zion
, Folks-Partei
, Unificationists) rose to the sovereignty of the Ukrainian Republic and were cooperating with the Ukrainian government, and he condemned such actions calling those initiators deserters, enemies of the State that must be liquidated. The order was co-signed by the Chief of staff otaman Yunakiv. The order was published in the Ukraina newspaper on February 20 (March 4, old style). Later Petliura issued a special order to execute Semysenko as the pogrom-initiator, which was accomplished on March 20, 1920.
The city was home during the Cold War to the 19th Division of the 43rd Rocket Army
of the Strategic Rocket Forces
, formed from the 7-я Запорожская Order of the Red Banner
, Order of Suvorov
, Кутузова Artillery Division прорыва of the Red Army
. The intercontinental ballistic missile
silo
s of the division were removed and destroyed, partially with U.S. Cooperative Threat Reduction funding, during the 1990s.
Its total area is 8624 hectares.
On 01.01.2007 the population of the city was 258,300.
The average life expectancy of its inhabitants is 65 years for men, and 75 years for women.
The city's birth rate is continuing to grow. In 2006, 2593 children were born.
Due to its geographical location and natural resources Khmelnytskyi has always attracted foreigners, including Turks, Germans, Hungarians, Poles, Lithuanians, Austrians, Swedes and Russians.
The city has a favorable geographical position. The distance from Khmelnytskyi to Kiev by the railway is 366 km (227.4 mi), by highway is 384 km (238.6 mi). The highways Kiev-Lviv, Odessа-Lviv and Chernivtsi-Kiev pass through the city. The city has an airport with a 2200 m (7,217.85 ft) concrete runway; at the airport there is a check point for crossing the state border of Ukraine.
The city has convenient transport connections with Moscow, Prague, Bratislava, Warsaw, Budapest, Belgrade and all major Ukrainian cities.
The city is crossed by one of the longest rivers of Ukraine – the Southern Bug.
The climate of the city is moderate-continental. The average temperature of the air in the warmest month (July) is 20 to 22 °C (68 to 71.6 F), and in the coldest month (January) is -5 C. The maximum temperature in summer reaches 36 to 38 °C (96.8 to 100.4 F), the minimum temperature in winter is -24 C. The average annual temperature is 7 to 8 °C (44.6 to 46.4 F). The average annual precipitation is 510 to 580 mm (20.1 to 22.8 in). The most widespread ground making layers are the following overburden: loess
and loess-type rocks.
The ground-climatic conditions of the city are favorable for cultivation of winter wheat and rye, sugar beet, potato and other crops and for the development of gardening and vegetable growing.
On the territory of the city there is vegetation of two geobotanical zones of Ukraine: Polissya and forest-steppe.
In the region and in the city there are many rock products, particularly building materials: limestone, plaster, chalk, tripoli powder, crystal layers (granites, gneisses), sand and sandstones, and also graphite, saponite, kaolin, phosphorite, lithographic stone and roofing slate. There are deposits of peat, bitumen, shale and oil.
The volume of the realized industrial output (works, services) in sale prices in 2006 was almost 2 billion hryvnias
and is 33.6 % of the total output in the region. The volume of the realized industrial output for a person in the city was 7.7 thousand hryvnias.
Among the enterprises of counstruction industry in the city a powerful place in rates of industrial output volumes increase are occupied by CE “Factory of construction materials”, OJSC "Khmelnytskzalizobeton", OJSC “Plant of construction materials”.
The city houses a chemical company “Khekro Pet LTD.” as well.
s.
The enterprises
of the city
The following table seemed to be representing the year of 2007
In 2007 the number of state registered relics in Khmelnytskyi city is the following:
archeological relics - 2;
historical relics - 953;
relics of monumental art - 12;
comprised in the complex of national property - 5;
located separately - 46;
of local significance - 967.
There are many relics of monumental art connected with the Great Patriotic War. They are Eternal Fire (1974, Proskurivska str., sculptors M.Hrytsyuk, Y.Synkevych, architect Snytsariv), the Eternal Fame Monument (sculptor V.Znoba, architects V.Hromyhin, Y.Perehrest), Military cemetery, the Tank monument in honor of military troops which liberated the city, the panorama of Proskuriv-Chernivtsi battle.
The sculptural works of Borys and Mykola Mazur such the Angel of grief (to the victims of repressions), to the Soldiers-internationalists, to the Chernobyl
firemen. The monuments to T.Shevchenko, B.Khmelnytskyi belong to the monuments of new time (1993, sculptor V.Borysenko, architect M.Kopyla).
There are plenty of hotels.
- availability of the powerful industrial potential, the developed building industry, transport system of the city and business activity;
- high scientific-educational, professional and cultural level of the population, good potential of specialists;
- attractiveness of the city environment, its architecture and design;
- convenient railway communication with the European capitals;
- qualitative support of the investors by the city authorities;
- availability of geopolitical and administrative potential of the development;
- developed financial infrastructure of the city;
- free approach to the property of the city community;
- availability of the significant financial resources at the population and business which can be involved as the share capital.
- trade;
- hotel business;
- building;
- machine-building;
- food industry;
- chemical and oil refining industry;
- electronics.
Considering the perspective directions of the city development, it is necessary to take into account, that in the spheres which have achieved significant economical and financial results, the growth reserves cannot be permanent, that’s why the adjacent spheres are of investors’ interest.
Quite good perspective for the investments in Khmelnytskyi is such spheres as:
- manufacture of building materials;
- light industry;
- education.
Regarding the fact that the volume of the production in these spheres in the city is small they are quite a good variant for investments of additional funds for the development of these spheres of manufacture.
Due to the foundation of joint enterprises and to production of qualitative production it is possible to receive free approach to the market in the city and outside.
Export:
In 2006 the enterprises of the city exported their production to 39 countries of the world.
The largest amount of goods was exported to the CIS countries (68.8 % of the total export sum of Ukraine), to the European Union there was exported 23.5% of goods.
There are the following countries-partners to which it was exported the largest amount of goods:
The CIS - Armenia, the Russian Federation, Belarus, Lithuania, Moldova;
EU - Sweden, Germany, Luxembourg, the Czech Republic, France, Netherlands, Austria, Hungary, Belgium, Greece, Italy, Finland, Estonia, Spain, Latvia;
Europe - Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Switzerland;
America - the USA;
Asia - Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Turkey, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, Tadjikistan, Uzbekistan, Israel, the United Arab Emirates.
Import:
In 2006 the enterprise of the city imported production from 37 countries of the world.
The largest amount of goods was imported from the EU countries (54.1 % of the total import).
The share of the CIS countries production makes 22.2 %, the third region is Asia (20.9 %).
On 01.01.2007 foreign investments at the enterprises of Khmelnytskyi made $58.3 mln. The biggest investors of the city are: Liechtenstein, Virginia British Isles, Cyprus and Poland.
The primary tasks of the investment policy are:
- The transformation of the city into harmoniously developed center of modern territory according to the European standards with diversified specialization in machine-building, radio-electronic, chemical and oil-refining industry and food industry.
- Complete satisfaction of one’s own needs in foodstuffs, certain kinds of modern agricultural machines, considerable increase of their exporting and deliveries to national fund.
- Creation of modern, industrial complex integrated into the world manufacture.
- Introduction of structural reorganization innovative model of the city economy.
- Closing and reshaping of the industrial enterprises with out-of-date high power inputs technologies and noncompetitive production.
- Technical re-equipment and reconstruction of the old enterprises of processing sphere. Bringing their capacities to conformity with the resources of agricultural raw materials.
- Further development of one’s own basis in building materials manufacture due to rational use of local deposits of mineral building raw materials, re-structuring of the building industry enterprises.
- Improvement of the territorial structure and allocation of productive forces with the purpose of maximal self-provision of the city with own funds.
- The attractive investment climate ensuring and the development of the infrastructure to support the investment activity.
- The intellectual potential strengthening and the development of new high technologies.
- Rational use of land, water, and recreation natural resources; creation of the conditions for their restoration.
- Improvement of the city social infrastructure including preschool education, education, culture, public health services, physical fitness and rest, improvement of the demographic situation.
- Increase in the level of provision with the habitation, regarding the needs and opportunities of different layers of the population.
- Preservation and rational use of the available residential housing, other houses and buildings, reconstruction and modernization of the out-of-date buildings regarding social standards and sanitary-and-hygienic conditions.
- Improvement of the industrial infrastructure with insuring its economic efficiency and social orientation, creation of appropriate conditions for the development of enterprises of all patterns of ownership for productive employment of the population, restoration of personnel and scientific potential, adequate number of workplaces.
- Improvement of the transport infrastructure, in particular, the development of all kinds of passenger transport of general purpose; insuring the city and inter-city connections as well as the connection of the rural settlements with the city and between themselves.
- Development of the engineering infrastructure (introduction of new technologies, networks and constructions of power supply, thermal supply, water supply and sewer system).
- Introduction of the city engineering-technical provision energy-conserving systems.
- Regulation of the process of the city planning and building through the development of the general plan, other town-planning documentation and local rules of building, control of their realization (regarding the state, public and private interests).
- Stipulation of the development of national features of town-planning and architecture.
- Protection and rational use of relics of Khmelnytskyi cultural heritage.
- Formation of the valuable vital environment, balancing of social and economic development of Khmelnytskyi.
- Improvement of the sanitary-and-hygienic and ecological conditions of the city, creation of the conditions which are safe for life and health of people, introduction of modern systems of collecting, withdrawal, processing and neutralization of waste products.
- Ensuring of protection against the adverse natural phenomena, prevention of technogeneous failures and liquidation of their consequences.
- Carrying out of scientific researches which would stipulate the settling of social and economic, ecological and other problems.
- Realization of international cooperation.
- introduction of highly effective technologies in manufacture;
- building of habitations;
- medicine and public health services;
- educational activity;
- development of public catering and consumer services.
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Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...
in the region of Podillia. It is located on the Southern Buh
Southern Bug
The Southern Bug, also called Southern Buh), is a river located in Ukraine. The source of the river is in the west of Ukraine, in the Volyn-Podillia Upland, about 145 km from the Polish border, and flows southeasterly into the Bug Estuary through the southern steppes...
River and about 340 km (211 mi) from the Ukrainian capital, Kiev
Kiev
Kiev or Kyiv is the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River. The population as of the 2001 census was 2,611,300. However, higher numbers have been cited in the press....
. The town's original name was Płoskirów, later Proskurov, but in 1954 was renamed Khmelnytskyi. It is the center of the Khmelnytskyi Oblast
Khmelnytskyi Oblast
Khmelnytskyi Oblast is an oblast of western Ukraine. The administrative center of the oblast is the city of Khmelnytskyi.The current estimated population is around 1,401,140 .-Geography:...
(province
Administrative divisions of Ukraine
Ukraine is subdivided into 24 oblasts , one autonomous republic, and two "cities with special status".- Overview :...
) in western Ukraine. The alternative transliteration
Transliteration
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s of the name include Khmel’nyts’kyỹ, Khmel’nyts’kyy, Khmelnitsky, and Khmelnitskiy. The city is served by Khmelnytskyi Ruzhychna Airport. As of 2009, the city's population is 290,100.
Khmelnytskyi should not be confused with Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi
Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi
Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi is a town located where Alta River flows into Trubizh River in the Kiev Oblast in central Ukraine. Serving as the administrative center of the Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi Raion , the town itself is also designated as a separate raion within the oblast...
, a city in Ukraine's Kyiv Oblast.
The football
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...
team FC Dynamo Khmelnytskyi is based in Khmelnytskyi.
History
The city was founded in 1431 as Ploskyriv or Ploskyrivtsi (Плоскирів or Плоскирівці), and later came to be called Proskuriv (Проскурів), but in 1954 was renamed Khmelnytskyi (Хмельницький) on the 300th anniversary of a treaty negotiated by Bohdan KhmelnytskyBohdan Khmelnytsky
Bohdan Zynoviy Mykhailovych Khmelnytsky was a hetman of the Zaporozhian Cossack Hetmanate of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth . He led an uprising against the Commonwealth and its magnates which resulted in the creation of a Cossack state...
.
A series of pogrom
Pogrom
A pogrom is a form of violent riot, a mob attack directed against a minority group, and characterized by killings and destruction of their homes and properties, businesses, and religious centres...
s were carried out in the region known in the history as the Proskurov pogrom. Particularly, that event was brought up during the Schwartzbard mistrial
Schwartzbard trial
The Schwartzbard trial was a sensational 1927 French murder trial that resulted in a mistrial of international proportions. At the trial Sholom Schwartzbard was accused of murdering the Ukrainian immigrant and head of the Ukrainian government-in-exile Symon Petlura in Paris...
after which the Petliura's assassin was pardoned on the grounds of self-trail (revenge
Revenge
Revenge is a harmful action against a person or group in response to a grievance, be it real or perceived. It is also called payback, retribution, retaliation or vengeance; it may be characterized, justly or unjustly, as a form of justice.-Function in society:Some societies believe that the...
). According to Vinnytsia's city archives the pogrom was conducted on the Friday night February 15, 1919 by one of the otamans (generals) of the Ukrainian People's Army Otaman Semysenko. In total 390 men, 309 women and 76 children were killed in the pogrom, and further 500 individuals were wounded. The chief Otaman Petliura was appointed the head of state just two days prior to the tragedy on February 13. Petliura issued the Order 131 in which he mentioned the fact that numerous Jewish parties in Ukraine (Bund, Poale Zion
Poale Zion
Poale Zion was a Movement of Marxist Zionist Jewish workers circles founded in various cities of the Russian Empire about the turn of the century after the Bund rejected Zionism in 1901.-Formation and early years:Poale Zion parties and organisations were started across the Jewish diaspora in the...
, Folks-Partei
Folkspartei
The Folkspartei was founded after the 1905 pogroms in the Russian Empire by Simon Dubnow and Israel Efrojkin. The party took part to several elections in Poland and Lithuania in the 1920s and 1930s and did not survive the Shoah.-Ideology:...
, Unificationists) rose to the sovereignty of the Ukrainian Republic and were cooperating with the Ukrainian government, and he condemned such actions calling those initiators deserters, enemies of the State that must be liquidated. The order was co-signed by the Chief of staff otaman Yunakiv. The order was published in the Ukraina newspaper on February 20 (March 4, old style). Later Petliura issued a special order to execute Semysenko as the pogrom-initiator, which was accomplished on March 20, 1920.
The city was home during the Cold War to the 19th Division of the 43rd Rocket Army
43rd Rocket Army
The 43rd Red Banner Rocket Army was an army of the Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces.It was formed at Vinnitsa within the Kiev Military District's boundaries on 1 September 1960 from the previous 43rd Air Army of the Long Range Aviation....
of the Strategic Rocket Forces
Strategic Rocket Forces
The Strategic Missile Troops or Strategic Rocket Forces of the Russian Federation or RVSN RF , transliteration: Raketnye voyska strategicheskogo naznacheniya Rossiyskoy Federatsii, literally Missile Troops of Strategic Designation of the Russian Federation) are a military branch of the Russian...
, formed from the 7-я Запорожская Order of the Red Banner
Order of the Red Banner
The Soviet government of Russia established the Order of the Red Banner , a military decoration, on September 16, 1918 during the Russian Civil War...
, Order of Suvorov
Order of Suvorov
The Order of Suvorov is a Soviet award, named after Aleksandr Suvorov , that was established on July 29, 1942 by a decision of the Presidium of Supreme Soviet of the USSR. This decoration was created to award senior army personnel for exceptional leadership in combat operations...
, Кутузова Artillery Division прорыва of the Red Army
Red Army
The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army started out as the Soviet Union's revolutionary communist combat groups during the Russian Civil War of 1918-1922. It grew into the national army of the Soviet Union. By the 1930s the Red Army was among the largest armies in history.The "Red Army" name refers to...
. The intercontinental ballistic missile
Intercontinental ballistic missile
An intercontinental ballistic missile is a ballistic missile with a long range typically designed for nuclear weapons delivery...
silo
Silo
A silo is a structure for storing bulk materials.Silo may also refer to:* Silo , a 3D modeling software* Silo , a defunct chain of retail electronics stores* SILO , used in Linux...
s of the division were removed and destroyed, partially with U.S. Cooperative Threat Reduction funding, during the 1990s.
Geography and natural potential
Khmelnytskyi is the regional center of Khmelnytskyi region which is located in the western part of Ukraine in the middle of Volhynia-Podilska.Its total area is 8624 hectares.
On 01.01.2007 the population of the city was 258,300.
The average life expectancy of its inhabitants is 65 years for men, and 75 years for women.
The city's birth rate is continuing to grow. In 2006, 2593 children were born.
Due to its geographical location and natural resources Khmelnytskyi has always attracted foreigners, including Turks, Germans, Hungarians, Poles, Lithuanians, Austrians, Swedes and Russians.
The city has a favorable geographical position. The distance from Khmelnytskyi to Kiev by the railway is 366 km (227.4 mi), by highway is 384 km (238.6 mi). The highways Kiev-Lviv, Odessа-Lviv and Chernivtsi-Kiev pass through the city. The city has an airport with a 2200 m (7,217.85 ft) concrete runway; at the airport there is a check point for crossing the state border of Ukraine.
The city has convenient transport connections with Moscow, Prague, Bratislava, Warsaw, Budapest, Belgrade and all major Ukrainian cities.
The city is crossed by one of the longest rivers of Ukraine – the Southern Bug.
The climate of the city is moderate-continental. The average temperature of the air in the warmest month (July) is 20 to 22 °C (68 to 71.6 F), and in the coldest month (January) is -5 C. The maximum temperature in summer reaches 36 to 38 °C (96.8 to 100.4 F), the minimum temperature in winter is -24 C. The average annual temperature is 7 to 8 °C (44.6 to 46.4 F). The average annual precipitation is 510 to 580 mm (20.1 to 22.8 in). The most widespread ground making layers are the following overburden: loess
Loess
Loess is an aeolian sediment formed by the accumulation of wind-blown silt, typically in the 20–50 micrometre size range, twenty percent or less clay and the balance equal parts sand and silt that are loosely cemented by calcium carbonate...
and loess-type rocks.
The ground-climatic conditions of the city are favorable for cultivation of winter wheat and rye, sugar beet, potato and other crops and for the development of gardening and vegetable growing.
On the territory of the city there is vegetation of two geobotanical zones of Ukraine: Polissya and forest-steppe.
In the region and in the city there are many rock products, particularly building materials: limestone, plaster, chalk, tripoli powder, crystal layers (granites, gneisses), sand and sandstones, and also graphite, saponite, kaolin, phosphorite, lithographic stone and roofing slate. There are deposits of peat, bitumen, shale and oil.
Industry
The industry of the city is represented with 88 enterprises, which produce food, chemical, machine-building, metal working, light industry, building materials, pulp-and-paper and publishing products, etc.The volume of the realized industrial output (works, services) in sale prices in 2006 was almost 2 billion hryvnias
Ukrainian hryvnia
The hryvnia, sometimes hryvnya or grivna ; sign: ₴, code: , has been the national currency of Ukraine since September 2, 1996. The hryvnia is subdivided into 100 kopiyok. In medieval times, it was a currency of Kievan Rus'....
and is 33.6 % of the total output in the region. The volume of the realized industrial output for a person in the city was 7.7 thousand hryvnias.
- "Novator", the state-owned company, started manufacturing a locomotive radio station, color TV sets, electronic registers, etc.;
- OJSC "Ukrelektroaparat" started manufacturing new transformer modifications and transformer substation utility; *OJSC "Temp" started operating a line of circuit-board mechanization, a line of circuit-board chemical and galvanic metal-conditioning.
- OJSC "Vzuteks" introduced a new bite technology and new footwear models.
- CJSC "Khmelnytsklegprom" introduced an automated process of fabrics laying and cutting.
Among the enterprises of counstruction industry in the city a powerful place in rates of industrial output volumes increase are occupied by CE “Factory of construction materials”, OJSC "Khmelnytskzalizobeton", OJSC “Plant of construction materials”.
The city houses a chemical company “Khekro Pet LTD.” as well.
Small business
There are 19 credit unionCredit union
A credit union is a cooperative financial institution that is owned and controlled by its members and operated for the purpose of promoting thrift, providing credit at competitive rates, and providing other financial services to its members...
s.
The enterprises
Business
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of the city
The following table seemed to be representing the year of 2007
| Sphere of the economy | Density of the enterprises to all enterprises of the city, % |
|---|---|
| Wholesale and retail trade | 39.1 |
| Industry | 18.3 |
| Operations with the real estate, rent services | 17.5 |
| Building | 10.2 |
| Transport and communication | 4.4 |
| Collective, public and personal services | 2.9 |
| Hotels and restaurants | 2.7 |
| Public health services and the social help | 1.6 |
| Other spheres of activity | 3.3 |
Points of interest
- Proskurivska street, a modern central pedestrian street of the city, preserved buildings of the end of the 19th - the beginnings of 20th century in the styles of modernist, eclecticisms, Baroque, stone (characteristic only for Proskuriv).
- The house of the former Oleksiyivske real school (now it is the building of the City Executive Committee)
- The house of O. Brusilov (now is the House of Ceremonial events)
- The church of Christmas of the Virgin (the first stone construction in the city)
- The Protection cathedral
- Saint-Georgiy church
- Andriy Pervozvannyi church in "Dubovo" district
In 2007 the number of state registered relics in Khmelnytskyi city is the following:
archeological relics - 2;
historical relics - 953;
relics of monumental art - 12;
comprised in the complex of national property - 5;
located separately - 46;
of local significance - 967.
There are many relics of monumental art connected with the Great Patriotic War. They are Eternal Fire (1974, Proskurivska str., sculptors M.Hrytsyuk, Y.Synkevych, architect Snytsariv), the Eternal Fame Monument (sculptor V.Znoba, architects V.Hromyhin, Y.Perehrest), Military cemetery, the Tank monument in honor of military troops which liberated the city, the panorama of Proskuriv-Chernivtsi battle.
The sculptural works of Borys and Mykola Mazur such the Angel of grief (to the victims of repressions), to the Soldiers-internationalists, to the Chernobyl
Chernobyl
Chernobyl or Chornobyl is an abandoned city in northern Ukraine, in Kiev Oblast, near the border with Belarus. The city had been the administrative centre of the Chernobyl Raion since 1932....
firemen. The monuments to T.Shevchenko, B.Khmelnytskyi belong to the monuments of new time (1993, sculptor V.Borysenko, architect M.Kopyla).
There are plenty of hotels.
Competitive advantages of Khmelnytskyi city
- favorable geographical location;- availability of the powerful industrial potential, the developed building industry, transport system of the city and business activity;
- high scientific-educational, professional and cultural level of the population, good potential of specialists;
- attractiveness of the city environment, its architecture and design;
- convenient railway communication with the European capitals;
- qualitative support of the investors by the city authorities;
- availability of geopolitical and administrative potential of the development;
- developed financial infrastructure of the city;
- free approach to the property of the city community;
- availability of the significant financial resources at the population and business which can be involved as the share capital.
Profitable spheres for investment
It is profitable to invest funds in the development of the following spheres:- trade;
- hotel business;
- building;
- machine-building;
- food industry;
- chemical and oil refining industry;
- electronics.
Considering the perspective directions of the city development, it is necessary to take into account, that in the spheres which have achieved significant economical and financial results, the growth reserves cannot be permanent, that’s why the adjacent spheres are of investors’ interest.
Quite good perspective for the investments in Khmelnytskyi is such spheres as:
- manufacture of building materials;
- light industry;
- education.
Regarding the fact that the volume of the production in these spheres in the city is small they are quite a good variant for investments of additional funds for the development of these spheres of manufacture.
Due to the foundation of joint enterprises and to production of qualitative production it is possible to receive free approach to the market in the city and outside.
Exports and Imports
Export:
In 2006 the enterprises of the city exported their production to 39 countries of the world.
The largest amount of goods was exported to the CIS countries (68.8 % of the total export sum of Ukraine), to the European Union there was exported 23.5% of goods.
There are the following countries-partners to which it was exported the largest amount of goods:
The CIS - Armenia, the Russian Federation, Belarus, Lithuania, Moldova;
EU - Sweden, Germany, Luxembourg, the Czech Republic, France, Netherlands, Austria, Hungary, Belgium, Greece, Italy, Finland, Estonia, Spain, Latvia;
Europe - Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Switzerland;
America - the USA;
Asia - Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Turkey, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, Tadjikistan, Uzbekistan, Israel, the United Arab Emirates.
Import:
In 2006 the enterprise of the city imported production from 37 countries of the world.
The largest amount of goods was imported from the EU countries (54.1 % of the total import).
The share of the CIS countries production makes 22.2 %, the third region is Asia (20.9 %).
Dynamics of foreign investments into Khmelnytskyi
On 01.01.2007 foreign investments at the enterprises of Khmelnytskyi made $58.3 mln. The biggest investors of the city are: Liechtenstein, Virginia British Isles, Cyprus and Poland.
Local Investment and Industrial Policy
In the city the effective investment and industrial policy is pursued; the basic purpose of it is structural reorganization of the economy, formation of the economic complex according to the available natural, labor, infrastructural resources, as one of the sources of the city development, preservation and escalating of the existing capacities on the basis of competent and regular attraction of both internal and external investments. The main goal of the industrial and investment policy of the city is to ensure the stable economic growth and raising of people standards of life.The primary tasks of the investment policy are:
- The transformation of the city into harmoniously developed center of modern territory according to the European standards with diversified specialization in machine-building, radio-electronic, chemical and oil-refining industry and food industry.
- Complete satisfaction of one’s own needs in foodstuffs, certain kinds of modern agricultural machines, considerable increase of their exporting and deliveries to national fund.
- Creation of modern, industrial complex integrated into the world manufacture.
- Introduction of structural reorganization innovative model of the city economy.
- Closing and reshaping of the industrial enterprises with out-of-date high power inputs technologies and noncompetitive production.
- Technical re-equipment and reconstruction of the old enterprises of processing sphere. Bringing their capacities to conformity with the resources of agricultural raw materials.
- Further development of one’s own basis in building materials manufacture due to rational use of local deposits of mineral building raw materials, re-structuring of the building industry enterprises.
- Improvement of the territorial structure and allocation of productive forces with the purpose of maximal self-provision of the city with own funds.
- The attractive investment climate ensuring and the development of the infrastructure to support the investment activity.
- The intellectual potential strengthening and the development of new high technologies.
Priorities of the local government
- Social, economic, ecological aspects the city development.- Rational use of land, water, and recreation natural resources; creation of the conditions for their restoration.
- Improvement of the city social infrastructure including preschool education, education, culture, public health services, physical fitness and rest, improvement of the demographic situation.
- Increase in the level of provision with the habitation, regarding the needs and opportunities of different layers of the population.
- Preservation and rational use of the available residential housing, other houses and buildings, reconstruction and modernization of the out-of-date buildings regarding social standards and sanitary-and-hygienic conditions.
- Improvement of the industrial infrastructure with insuring its economic efficiency and social orientation, creation of appropriate conditions for the development of enterprises of all patterns of ownership for productive employment of the population, restoration of personnel and scientific potential, adequate number of workplaces.
- Improvement of the transport infrastructure, in particular, the development of all kinds of passenger transport of general purpose; insuring the city and inter-city connections as well as the connection of the rural settlements with the city and between themselves.
- Development of the engineering infrastructure (introduction of new technologies, networks and constructions of power supply, thermal supply, water supply and sewer system).
- Introduction of the city engineering-technical provision energy-conserving systems.
- Regulation of the process of the city planning and building through the development of the general plan, other town-planning documentation and local rules of building, control of their realization (regarding the state, public and private interests).
- Stipulation of the development of national features of town-planning and architecture.
- Protection and rational use of relics of Khmelnytskyi cultural heritage.
- Formation of the valuable vital environment, balancing of social and economic development of Khmelnytskyi.
- Improvement of the sanitary-and-hygienic and ecological conditions of the city, creation of the conditions which are safe for life and health of people, introduction of modern systems of collecting, withdrawal, processing and neutralization of waste products.
- Ensuring of protection against the adverse natural phenomena, prevention of technogeneous failures and liquidation of their consequences.
- Carrying out of scientific researches which would stipulate the settling of social and economic, ecological and other problems.
- Realization of international cooperation.
- introduction of highly effective technologies in manufacture;
- building of habitations;
- medicine and public health services;
- educational activity;
- development of public catering and consumer services.
Famous people from Khmelnytskyi
- Ariel DurantAriel DurantAriel Durant was the co-author of The Story of Civilization.-Biography:Durant was born in Proskurov as Chaya Kaufman to Ethel Appel Kaufman and Joseph Kaufman. The family emigrated to the United States in 1901. She met her future husband, Will Durant, while a student at Ferrer Modern School in...
, author and historian who with her husband, Will Durant, described the history of Western civilization in a series of works. - Alberto GerchunoffAlberto GerchunoffAlberto Gerchunoff , was an Argentine writer born in the Russian Empire, in the city of Proskuriv, now Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine. His family emigrated in 1889 to the agricultural colony of Moises Ville. His father, Rab Gershon ben Abraham Gerchunoff was murdered by a gaucho on February 12, 1891...
, Argentine author and journalist
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External links
- khmelnytsky.com - Khmelnytskyi City Rada website
- Photos of Khmelnytskyi