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Balakliia

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Balakliia or Balakliya (, ; ) is a city in the Izium Raion, Kharkiv Oblast, eastern Ukraine, on the northeast side of the Siverskyi Donets river close to where it is joined by the , which runs through the town. It is an important railroad junction in the oblast. Balakliia hosts the administration of Balakliia urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population:

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Balakliia is a city in eastern Ukraine's Kharkiv Oblast that serves as an important railroad junction in the region. Located on the Siverskyi Donets river, it functions as an administrative center for its local community (hromada).

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Key facts

Settlement.name
Balakliia
Settlement.native_name
Балаклія
Settlement.native_name_lang
uk
Settlement.settlement_type
City
Settlement.image_skyline
Центральная улица.JPG
Settlement.image_caption
Zhovtneva street, the main street of Balakliia
Settlement.image_flag
Balaklia prapor.png
Settlement.image_shield
Balaklia gerb.png
Settlement.mapsize
250px
Settlement.subdivision_type
Country
Settlement.subdivision_type1
Oblast
Settlement.subdivision_name1
Kharkiv Oblast
Settlement.subdivision_type2
Raion
Settlement.subdivision_name2
Izium Raion
Settlement.established_title
Founded
Settlement.established_date
1663
Settlement.area_total_km2
35
Settlement.population_as_of
2022

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Official website

Балаклійська МВА – офіційний сайт

balakleyamer.gov.ua

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Encyclopedic overview

12 sections
Contents
  • Administrative status
  • History
  • Early history and etymology
  • Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union
  • 2017–2019 arms depot explosions
  • Full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Russian capture and occupation
  • Liberation by Ukraine
  • Demographics
  • Gallery
  • Notes
  • References

Balakliia or Balakliya (, ; ) is a city in the Izium Raion, Kharkiv Oblast, eastern Ukraine, on the northeast side of the Siverskyi Donets river close to where it is joined by the , which runs through the town. It is an important railroad junction in the oblast. Balakliia hosts the administration of Balakliia urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population:

==Administrative status== Until 18 July 2020, Balakliia was the administrative center of Balakliia Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Kharkiv Oblast to seven. The area of Balakliia Raion was merged into Izium Raion.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Balakliia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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