Country Ukraine Raion Vovchansk Postal code 62507 Area 36.8 km² Population 1,658 (2001) | Oblast Kharkiv Founded 1993 Area code(s) +380 5741 Local time Monday 1:32 PM | |
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Vilcha (Ukrainian: Вільча, Russian: Вильча) is a Ukrainian town of the Vovchansk Raion, Kharkiv Oblast. As of 2001, it had a population of 1,658.
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Map of Vil'cha, Kharkivska, Ukraine
History
The town, sometimes named New Vilcha, was founded in 1993, when the 2,000 residents of the Old Vilcha (709 km far, in Kiev Oblast), located 45 km from the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, moved here in the period 1993-1996. Immediately after the accident of 1986, the "Exclusion Zone" was recognized only in the area within a radius of 30 km from the nuclear plant.
Geography
Located 6 km south of Vovchansk, and not too far from the borders with the Russian Oblast of Belgorod; Vilcha it is served by the provincial highway T2104, and by Harbuzivka railway station, on Belgorod-Kupiansk line. The town is 20 km far from Bilyi Kolodiaz, 26 from Staryi Saltiv, 52 from Velykyi Burluk, 56 from Belgorod and 71 from Kharkiv.