From upper left: Historical centre, Kryvyi Rih-Main railway station, ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih, Quarter 95, the boat station on the Saksahan, a landscape of the Inhulets from Eagle's Nest
Kryvyi Rih City Hall, Ploshcha (Square) Molodizhna
Raions
List of 7 districts
Ternivskyi District
Pokrovskyi District
Saksahanskyi District
Tsentralno-Miskyi District
Dovhyntsivskyi District
Metalurhiinyi District
Inhuletskyi District
Government
• Type
City council, regional
• Mayor
City council secretary Yuri Vilkul (Mayor Konstantyn Pavlov [de; uk; ru] died on 15 August 2021, since then his powers are temporarily exercised by the city council secretary)[1]
• Governing body
Kryvyi Rih City Council
• Head of military administration
Oleksandr Vilkul[2]
Area
• City
431 km2 (166 sq mi)
• Rank
2nd, UA
Elevation
[3]
84 m (276 ft)
Population
(2022)
• City
603,904
• Rank
8th, UA
• Density
1,400/km2 (3,600/sq mi)
• Metro
1,170,953
(2019)
Demonym(s)
Kryvorozhanyn, Kryvorozhanka, Kryvorozhany
Time zone
UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)
UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code
50000-50479
Area code
+380 56(4)
Website
krmisto.gov.ua
Kryvyi Rih (/ˈkrɪviːˈriː/; Ukrainian: Кривий Ріг, IPA:[krɪˌwɪjˈr⁽ʲ⁾iɦ]ⓘ), also transliterated as Krivoy Rog (Russian: Кривой Рог),[4] is a city in central Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Kryvyi Rih Raion and its subordinate Kryvyi Rih urban hromada in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.[5] The city is part of the Kryvyi Rih Metropolitan Region. Its population is estimated at 603,904 (2022 estimate),[6] making it the seventh-most populous city in Ukraine and the second largest by area. Kryvyi Rih is claimed to be the longest city in Europe.[7][8]
Located at the confluence of the Saksahan and Inhulets rivers, Kryvyi Rih was founded as a military staging post in 1775. Urban-industrial growth followed Belgian, French and British investment in the exploitation of the area's rich iron-ore deposits, generally called Kryvbas, in the 1880s. Kryvyi Rih gained city status after the October Revolution in 1919.
Stalin-era industrialisation built Kryvorizhstal in 1934, the largest integrated metallurgical works in the Soviet Union. After a brutal German occupation in World War II, Kryvyi Rih experienced renewed growth through to the 1970s. The economic dislocation associated with the break-up of the Soviet Union contributed to high unemployment and a large-scale exodus from the city in the 1990s. The privatization of Kryvorizhstal in 2005 was followed by increased foreign and private investment which helped finance urban regeneration. Beginning in 2017, there were major labour protests and strikes.
In the February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, forces of the Russian Federation approached the city's outskirts from Russian-occupied Crimea. In March 2022, their advance stalled some 50 km to the south. The city has since been a target of frequent missile strikes.
^(in Ukrainian) Ex-mayor of Kryvyi Rih Vilkul will rule the city again Archived 2021-08-25 at the Wayback Machine, Ukrainska Pravda (25 August 2021)
^Cite error: The named reference 20220227Vikul1429610 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^"Kryvyi Rih (Ternopil Oblast, Kryvyi Rih Raion)". weather.in.ua. Archived from the original on 5 May 2022. Retrieved 27 February 2012.
^"Ukraine RD: Krivoy Rog". www.jewishgen.org. Archived from the original on 2022-11-23. Retrieved 2022-11-23.
^"Криворожская городская громада" (in Russian). Портал об'єднаних громад України. Archived from the original on 2022-02-20. Retrieved 2021-05-08.
^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.
^"Kryvyi Rih - the Steel Heart of Ukraine". Arnika. September 9, 2017. Archived from the original on November 15, 2022. Retrieved November 15, 2022.
^(in Ukrainian) "The official written response from The City Council Executive Committee to an information request regarding the geometric parameters of the city" (PDF). Доступ до правди (in Ukrainian). Криворізька міська рада. 29 Dec 2017. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 Nov 2019. Retrieved 6 Nov 2019.
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