Kuchurhan

Kuchurhan Кучурган
Kuchurhan border checkpoint in Jan 2005 Kuchurhan border checkpoint in Jan 2005
Kuchurhan Location in Ukraine
Coordinates:
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Odessa Oblast
Raion	Rozdilnianskyi Raion
Founded	1808
Area
• Total	3.42 km2 (1.32 sq mi)
Population (2011)
• Total	3,765
• Density	1,100/km2 (2,900/sq mi)
Time zone	+2 (UTC+3)
Postal code	67450
Area code(s)	+380 4853

Kuchurhan (Ukrainian or Russian: Кучурган) is a village in the Rozdilnianskyi Raion of the Odessa Oblast in Ukraine. It is located along the Kuchurhan River at the north end of the Kuchurhan Reservoir along the border with Transnistria in Moldova. It is the site of highway, rail, and power line border crossings between Ukraine and Moldova.

The village was established in 1808 as Strassburg by Roman Catholic German and French Alsatian immigrants to the Kutschurgan Valley, then part of the Russian Empire. It received its present name in 1944 after the remaining German residents were driven from the area by the advancing Soviet army.

File:Ukraine kuchurgan exit.jpg

Kuchurhan exit stamp for passport

Ukrainian Channel 24 journalist Volodymyr Runets reported in March 2016 that Kuchurhan's schoolchildren were being taught anti-Americanism and that most villagers "loathe Ukrainian patriots".

See also

• Roads in Ukraine
• State Highways (Ukraine)
• Transport in Moldova
• Kuchurgan power station
• Eugeniu Ştirbu

External links

• (Ukrainian) Kuchurhan
• Straßburg Village Information
• Kutschurgan Map
• Founders of the Village of Strassburg