Kolomak


Kolomak is an urban-type settlement in Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine. It serves as the administrative center of Kolomak Raion. Population:
Kolomak is located between Poltava and Kharkiv, on both banks of the Kolomak River, a major left tributary of the Vorskla River in the drainage basin of the Dnieper.

History

It was a village in Valky uyezd of Kharkov Governorate of the Russian Empire.
During World War II it was under German occupation from October 1941 to September 1943.
In January 1989 the population was 4628 people. In January 2013 the population was 3844 people.

Economy

Transportation

The Highway M03, connecting Kiev and Kharkiv via Poltava, runs about south of Kolonak, and the settlement has an easy access to it. There are local roads as well.
Kolomak railway station, on the Southern railway line connecting Kharkiv and Poltava, is not located in Kolomak but in Shelestove, about west of the settlement. There is a freight dead-end railway line to Kolomak from Vodiana railway station, on the same line connecting Kharkiv and Poltava.