Balakliia
Sign in to saveBalakliia 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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Article
12 sectionsContents
- 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.