Liubashivka

Liubashivka Любашiвка
Coat of arms
Country Oblast Raion	Ukraine Odessa Liubashivskyi
Established	18th century
Town status	from 1957
Government
• Golova	G. Pavlov
Area
• Total	8.87 km2 (3.42 sq mi)
Population (2001)
• Total	11,500
• Density	1,103/km2 (2,860/sq mi)
Area code(s)	UA 66500
Website	Liubashivka Online

Liubashivka (Ukrainian: Любашівка, Russian: Любашёвка) is a town in Odessa Oblast (region), Ukraine, located of south-western Ukrainу at around 47°5′0″N, 30°2′0″E. Population is 9,429 (2011). Liubashivka — administrative center of the Liubashivskyi Raion (district). Town was founded in the 18th century. Liubashivka is primarily Ukrainophone.

Liubashivka is an important transport center and located approximately 160 kilometers from the region capital, Odessa. The town lies on a route Highway05/European route 95: Saint Petersburg — Kiev — Odessa — Merzifon.

Through the territory of the Liubashivka pass the railroad routes. A railway from Odessa to Elisavetgrad (Kirovograd) and a railway station were built here in 1868.

Many armies passed through town in the period from 1917 to 1920, when Ukraine gained its independence from Russia for a short period of time. They represented different powers: Russian Bolsheviks, Ukrainian Central Council (Tsentralna Rada), Mahno movement and the White movement. With the end of the war, the Communist Party assumed complete control of the country. The Bolsheviks leader Joseph Stalin launched a command economy, rapid industrialization and collectivization of its agriculture. The Stalin's Ukrainian famine (1932—1933), or Holodomor was one of the largest national catastrophes in the modern history of Liubashivka.

Until World War II the town had a Jewish community. In 1940 Jewish population was 2500. In 1990 Jewish population was only 5 persons.

During World War II Liubashivka was occupied by Romanian and German forces (1941—1944). In 1991, after the collapse of Communism, the city became part of newly independent Ukraine.

There are two schools, one hospital, a railway station, and a hotel.

See also

• International Highways (Ukraine)
• Russian version