| Official Name: | Kotliarka |
| Other Name: | Kotlyarka |
| Native Name: | Ukrainian: Котлярка |
| Settlement Type: | Village |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Established Title: | First mentioned |
| Established Date: | 1700s |
| Government Type: | Village Council |
| Governing Body: | 12 |
| Leader Title: | Chairman |
| Leader Name: | Nelia Nazaruk[1] |
| Area Land Km2: | 2.37 |
| Population Total: | 429 |
| Population Density Km2: | 181 |
| Pushpin Map: | Ukraine Zhytomyr Oblast#Ukraine |
| Coordinates: | 50.0278°N 29.3319°W |
| Elevation M: | 210 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
| Postal Code: | 13523 |
| Area Code: | +380 4137 |
| Timezone: | EET |
| Utc Offset: | +2 |
| Timezone Dst: | EEST |
| Utc Offset Dst: | +3 |
| Subdivision Type1: | Oblast |
| Subdivision Type2: | Raion |
| Subdivision Name2: | Zhytomyr Raion |
Kotliarka or Kotlyarka (uk|Котлярка pronounced as /uk/) is a village in Ukraine, located in the Zhytomyr Raion of the Zhytomyr Oblast (province).[2] The village belongs to an eponymous village council - the .
The village is situated in the northwest of the Dnieper Upland and the right-bank Ukraine.
The village council area borders the Andrushivka Raion in the west and village councils of the Popilna Raion: in the east, in the north, in the south-west, in the south and in the south-east.
The river Kryvenka (uk|Кривенька, en|Curved) flows through the village into the, which flows into the Irpin River of the Dnieper basin. There is a pond on the river in the village, that is called the Kryvenka Reservoir.[3]
Two forests are near the village towards and . They were part of a large forest[4] in the Popilnia Raion; the forest was significantly reduced because of the high demand for potash in the 14th to 19th centuries, which required large amounts of wood.[5] [6] [7]
Serpent's Wall[8] and ancient kurgans[9] were discovered next to the village. The Ukrainian historian Volodymyr Antonovych mentioned the village in his work "The archaeological map of the Kiev Governorate" 1895.[10] He marked 2 large and 12 small kurgans in 3 kilometres from the village.[11]
Before the Kievan Rus epoch it was a territory of the Eastern Polans.[12]
The ethnographer in his work "" mentioned the village. In 1835 Kotliarka belonged to the (Uezd) and the parish of the Holy Dormition church in the neighbour village . The owners of the village were descendants of August Slyvynsky. There were 520 Orthodox Christians and 100 Catholics in the village.[13]
In 1878–1879, the riot of (quit-renters), who were tenants and former noblemen, started in the village. They took back the land they had previously rented from the landlord Slyvynsky for quit-rents. The land had been leased by a sugar company from for the high rental payment. After police arrested the riot organiser Baladinski, he was released by about 40 of his comrades. The police stopped the riot and arrested 26 rebels. However, the landlord was advised to refrain from attempts to change the tenants of the land.[14]
According to the Russian Empire Census in 1897[15] the rural population of the consisted of 86.65% Ukrainian, 9.69% Jewish, 2.51% Polish and 0.95% Russian speaking people.
There were names of 101 victims of the Holodomor 1932-1933 ascertained based on the stories of the eyewitnesses S. Babych, P. Vilchynska, Y. Zavadska, S. Monastyretsky and S. Sokyrko.[16]
During the political repression in the Soviet Union, especially in the Great Purge, a lot of villagers were executed or deported. Ethnic Ukrainian families, such as the Babych, Blinkevych and Vitkivsky, and Polish families, including the Baladinski, Czopiwski and Zawadski were subjected to repression.[17]
Many villagers were conscripted into the Red Army and killed during the Winter War (Soviet–Finnish War 1939–1940).[18]
During the Nazi occupation of 1941–1943[19] the village was in the Ruzhyn Gebiet of the of the Reichskommissariat Ukraine.