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Karlivka

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Country
  
Ukraine

Raion
  
Karlivka Raion

Population
  
15,001 (2015)

Team
  
FC Karlivka

Oblast
  
Poltava Oblast

Area
  
15.59 km²

Local time
  
Friday 5:35 PM

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Weather
  
10°C, Wind E at 14 km/h, 57% Humidity

Karlivka (Ukrainian: Карлівка, Russian: Карловка) is a city in Karlivka Raion, Poltava Oblast, Ukraine. Population is 15,001 (2015 est.). Until the 1950s the city was known as Karlovka.

Contents

Map of Karlivka, Poltava Oblast, Ukraine

Notable people

  • Trofim Lysenko (1898–1976), Soviet Ukrainian agrobiologist, promoter of the pseudoscientific agricultural and heritability of acquired characteristics theories termed Lysenkoism, which was official Soviet policy
  • Nikolai Podgorny (1903-1983), Soviet politician, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (1965-1977)
  • Semyon Ignatyev (1904-1983), Soviet politician, Interior Minister under Stalin (1951-1953)

    • References

    Karlivka Wikipedia
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