Balta, Ukraine

Balta (Ukrainian: Ба́лта, pronounced [ˈbɑɫtɐ] ⓘ) is a city in Podilsk Raion, Odesa Oblast in south-western Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Balta urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.[3] Population: 17,854 (2022 estimate).[4] The city's population was 19,772 as of the 2001 Ukrainian Census.[5]

Balta
Балта
City
The city view
The city view
Flag of Balta
Flag
Coat of arms of Balta
Coat of arms
Balta is located in Ukraine
Balta
Balta
Location of Balta in Odesa Oblast
Balta is located in Odesa Oblast
Balta
Balta
Balta (Odesa Oblast)
Coordinates: 47°56′24″N 29°37′19″E
Country Ukraine
Oblast Odesa Oblast
Raion Podilsk Raion
HromadaBalta urban hromada
Founded1526
Government
 • MayorSerhiy Mazur[1]
Area
 • Total22.97 km2 (8.87 sq mi)
Elevation
[2]
23 m (75 ft)
Population
 (2022)
 • TotalDecrease 17,854
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code
66100—66105
Area code+380 4866
Website

Name

In addition to the Ukrainian: Балта (Balta), in other languages the name of the city is Romanian: Balta and Yiddish: באַלטאַ.

History
Beauplan's 1648 map showing the Balta area.

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.[6] 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.[7] 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.[7]

Pogroms occurred in Balta in 1882 and 1905.[8]

From 1924–1929, the city was the capital of the Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.[6] With the annexation of Bessarabia in 1940, Balta became a part of the Odesa Oblast of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.[6] 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.[9] It was incorporated as the center of Balta Municipality. The municipality was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Odesa Oblast to seven. The area of Balta Municipality was merged into Podilsk Raion.[10][11]

Population
Population change table
184918601897195919701979198920012016
9810 14 154 23 363 17 922 20 317 20 929 23 293 19 962 18 955

Language

Distribution of the population by native language according to the 2001 census:[12]

Language Percentage
Ukrainian 81.02%
Russian 17.41%
other/undecided 1.57%

Notable people

References
  1. "Biographical reference". Balta City Council (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 2013-04-19. Retrieved 15 March 2013.
  2. "Balta (Odesa Oblast, Balta Raion)". weather.in.ua. Retrieved 15 March 2013.
  3. "Балтская громада" (in Russian). Портал об'єднаних громад України.
  4. Чисельність наявного населення України на 1 січня 2022 [Number of Present Population of Ukraine, as of January 1, 2022] (PDF) (in Ukrainian and English). Kyiv: State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 July 2022.
  5. "Balta, Odesa Oblast, Balta Raion". Regions of Ukraine and their Structure (in Ukrainian). Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Archived from the original on 7 March 2016. Retrieved 15 March 2013.
  6. "Historical reference". Balta City Council (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 2013-04-19. Retrieved 15 March 2013.
  7. "Balta, Ukraine". JewishGen Locality Page. JewishGen. Retrieved 15 March 2013.
  8. Encyclopedia Judaica, "Balta, Ukraine." Retrieved 10/1/2018.
  9. "Законодатели согласились на все предложения". Thesis (in Russian). 4 February 2016.
  10. "Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ". Голос України (in Ukrainian). 2020-07-18. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
  11. "Нові райони: карти + склад" (in Ukrainian). Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України. July 17, 2020.
  12. https://socialdata.org.ua/projects/mova-2001/
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