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Derhachi
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Also known as Derkachi, Dergachi

Derhachi (, ; ) is a city in Kharkiv Raion, Kharkiv Oblast, eastern Ukraine. The town is northwest of the administrative center of the oblast, Kharkiv. The settlement was founded in the second half of the 17th century as a sloboda. It hosts the administration of Derhachi urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population:

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Settlement.name
Derhachi
Settlement.settlement_type
City
Settlement.image_skyline
Landscape of the town of Derhachi (Ukraine).jpg
Settlement.image_caption
A view over north-west Derhachi
Settlement.image_shield
Derhatschi Wappen.png
Settlement.pushpin_map
Ukraine Kharkiv Oblast#Ukraine
Settlement.subdivision_type
Country
Settlement.subdivision_type1
Oblast
Settlement.subdivision_name1
Kharkiv Oblast
Settlement.subdivision_type2
Raion
Settlement.subdivision_name2
Kharkiv Raion
Settlement.subdivision_type3
Hromada
Settlement.subdivision_name3
Derhachi urban hromada
Settlement.area_total_km2
19.1
Settlement.population_as_of
2022
Settlement.population_total
17139
Settlement.population_density_km2
auto
Settlement.timezone
EET

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Wikidata facts

Official name
Деркачі
Population
17433
Area
137.6592
Elevation
122
Image
Landscape of the town of Derhachi (Ukraine).jpg
Dialing code
5763
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postal code
62300
Commons category
Derhachi
native label
Дергачі́
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25 sections
Contents
  • Etymology
  • Geography
  • Location
  • Climate
  • History
  • The Scythian period (500-200 BC)
  • The Cossack era
  • Russian Empire
  • Soviet times
  • Holodomor: the man-made famine of 1932-1933
  • Second World War
  • Post-War
  • Independent Ukraine (since 1991)
  • Demographics
  • Transportation
  • Trains
  • Buses
  • Metro
  • Economy
  • Notable people
  • Born in the town
  • Lived or worked in the town
  • Media
  • Twin towns — Sister cities
  • References

Derhachi (, ; ) is a city in Kharkiv Raion, Kharkiv Oblast, eastern Ukraine. The town is northwest of the administrative center of the oblast, Kharkiv. The settlement was founded in the second half of the 17th century as a sloboda. It hosts the administration of Derhachi urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population:

== Etymology == There are at least two versions of the origin of the town name. The first is connected with the term derkach, the Ukrainian name for the corncrake that inhabits the banks of the local Lopan river. Another version links the name to that of a legendary cossack Derkach who, it said, was the town's founder. After 1943, the Soviet local authorities rejected the Ukrainian variant of the name with letter к and began to use only the Russian version, with the letter г (Dergachi in Russian; Derhachi in Ukrainian). Later, the Russian-influenced spelling was officially installed in Ukrainian official settlements classification. Currently, there is an initiative to return the historic name Derkachi.

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