Kremenchuk
Kremenchuk (Template:Lang-ua; Template:Lang-ru, Kremenchug) is an important industrial city in central Ukraine, located on the banks of Dnieper.
Administratively, Kremenchuk is a part of Poltava Oblast and the center of its Kremenchutskyi raion (district).
As of 2004, its population is 226,100.
History
Kremenchuk was supposedly founded in 1571. From its situation at the southern terminus of the navigable course of the Dnieper, and on the highway from Muscovy to Black Sea, it early acquired great commercial importance, and, by 1655, it was a wealthy Cossack town.
Economy
Kremenchuk is a large industrial city of the Poltava region and one of the leading industrial centers of Ukraine. Situated in the city are some enterprises such as Autokraz, Ukrtatnafta, Road Machine factory, Car-building plant, Wheel plant, Technical Carbon plant and others. Kremenchuk is a home to the KrAZ truck-manufacturing company (one of the largest in Eastern Europe and internationally important) and a major oil-refining plant. The light industries in the city are the tobacco, confectionery, knitting factories, milk plant and others. Kremenchuk is one of the most important railway junctions of Central Ukraine and is also a great port on Dnieper river.
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