Zolota Balka

Zolota Balka Золота Балка
Village
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Coordinates: 47.379722°N 33.958889°E / 47.379722; 33.958889
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Kherson Oblast
Raion	Beryslav Raion
Founded	1780
Area
• Total	285.6 km^2 (110.3 sq mi)
Elevation	86 m (282 ft)
Population  (2001 census)[1]
• Total	1,681
• Density	5.9/km^2 (15/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code	74214
Area code	+380 5533

Zolota Balka (Ukrainian: Золота Балка; Russian: Золотая Балка) is a village in Beryslav Raion (district) in Kherson Oblast of southern Ukraine, at about 132.6 kilometres (82.4 mi) northeast by east from the centre of Kherson city, on the right bank of the Dnipro river, on the western bank of the Kakhovka Reservoir. It belongs to the Novooleksandrivka rural hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.[2]

Until 18 July 2020, Zolota Balka belonged to Novovorontsovka Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Kherson Oblast to five. The area of Novovorontsovka Raion was merged into Beryslav Raion.[3][4]

The settlement came under attack by Russian forces during the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and was regained by Ukrainian forces in the beginning of October the same year.[5]

Demographics

The settlement had 1681 inhabitants in 2001, native language distribution as of the Ukrainian Census of the same year:[1]

• Ukrainian: 96.19%
• Russian: 3.45%
• Belarusian: 0.30%

References

1. "Офіційна сторінка Всеукраїнського перепису населення | Банк даних" [All-Ukrainian population census | Database]. ukrcensus.gov.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 13 October 2022.
2. "Новоалександровская громада" [Novoaleksandrovskaya hromada] (in Russian). Портал об'єднаних громад України.
3. "Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ" [Regarding the formation and liquidation of districts. Resolution of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine No. 807-IX.]. Голос України (in Ukrainian). 18 July 2020. Retrieved 3 October 2020.
4. "Нові райони: карти + склад" [New areas: maps + warehouse] (in Ukrainian). Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України.
5. Kateryna Stepanenko; Frederick W. Kagan (22 September 2022). "Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, October 2". understandingwar.org. ISW. Retrieved 13 October 2022. Ukrainian forces resumed counteroffensives in northern Kherson Oblast and have secured positions in Zolota Balka and Khreshchenivka.