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Balta (Ukrainian: Ба́лта, pronounced [ˈbɑɫtɐ]; Romanian: Balta; Yiddish: באַלטאַ) is a city in Podilsk Raion, Odesa Oblast in south-western Ukraine. Population: 18,079 (2021 est.)[3] The city's population was 19,772 as of the 2001 Ukrainian Census.[4]

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City
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Coordinates: 47°56′24″N 29°37′19″E
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Odesa Oblast
Raion	Podilsk Raion
Founded	1526
Government
• Mayor	Serhiy Mazur[1]
Area
• Total	22.97 km2 (8.87 sq mi)
Elevation [2]	23 m (75 ft)
Population  (2021)
• Total	18,079
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code	66100—66105
Area code	+380 4866
Website

History

Balta is located near the Dniester River border with Moldova.

First mentions of Balta go all the way to 1526. Until 1792 Balta was part of the Ottoman Empire.[5] In 1797 two nearby towns; Yuzefhrad (Юзефград, Polish: Józefgród, until 1793 part of Poland) and Yelensk (Еленськ), were added to the city. It is located in the historic Podolia region of Ukraine.[6] According to the Russian census of 1897, with a population of 23,363 it was the fourth largest city of Podolia after Kamianets-Podilskyi, Uman and Vinnytsia. In 1900, the city's Jewish population numbered 13,235.[6]

Pogroms occurred in Balta in 1882 and 1905.[7]

From 1924–1929, the city was the capital of the Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.[5] With the annexation of Bessarabia in 1940, Balta became a part of the Odessa Oblast of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.[5] It was occupied by German and Romanian troops on 5 August 1941 and became part of Transnistria Governorate in Kingdom of Romania until its liberation on 29 March 1944 by Red Army.

Until 2016, Balta was part of Balta Raion. On 4 February 2016, it was designated the city of oblast significance but remained the administrative center of the raion.[8]

People from Balta

• Aryeh Altman, Israeli politician
• Yuly Aykhenvald, Ukrainian Jewish literary critic
• Zellig Harris, American linguist, mathematical syntactician, and methodologist of science
• Vsevolod Holubovych, Prime Minister of the Ukrainian People's Republic
• Grigori Panteleimonov, Russian sport shooter who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics
• Aryeh Leib Schochet, Rabbi
• Samuel (Sholem) Schwarzbard, (1886–1938), Yiddish poet, watchmaker, soldier, anarchist; grew up in Balta
• Louis E. Stern (b. 08/27/1886 d. 01/11/1962), American International Lawyer, patron and friend of Chagall, Picasso, Klee and Miro, collection left to Philadelphia Museum of Art and Brooklyn Museum

References

External links

• Media related to Category:Balta (Odessa Oblast) at Wikimedia Commons
• "Main". Balta City Council (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 25 December 2012. Retrieved 15 March 2013.

На других языках

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[de] Balta

Balta (ukrainisch und russisch Балта) ist eine ukrainische Stadt mit etwa 19.000 Einwohnern (Stand 2018[1]). Sie liegt am Ufer der Kodyma im Norden der Oblast Odessa etwa 200 km von Odessa und 160 km von Uman entfernt.

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- [en] Balta, Ukraine

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[ru] Балта

Ба́лта (укр. Ба́лта) — город в Одесской области Украины. Входит в Подольский район; центр Балтской городской общины, а также Балтской епархии. До 2020 года был административным центром упразднённого Балтского района, не входя в его состав как город областного значения[5].

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