Settlement Type: | City |
Official Name: | Novovolynsk |
Native Name: | Ukrainian: Нововолинськ |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Oblast |
Subdivision Name1: | Volyn Oblast |
Subdivision Type2: | Raion |
Subdivision Name2: | Volodymyr Raion |
Established Title: | Founded |
Established Date: | 1951 |
Established Title1: | City status |
Established Date1: | 1957 |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Borys Karpus |
Area Total Km2: | 17 |
Population As Of: | 2022 |
Population Total: | 49772 |
Pushpin Map: | Ukraine Volyn Oblast#Ukraine |
Coordinates: | 50.7333°N 24.1667°W |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Postal Code: | 45400 |
Area Code: | +380-3344 |
Website: | http://nvip.com.ua/http://forum.novovolynsk.com.ua/http://newvol.com.ua/ |
Subdivision Type3: | Hromada |
Subdivision Name3: | Novovolynsk urban hromada |
Novovolynsk (Ukrainian: Нововолинськ) is a city in Volyn Oblast, Ukraine. Novovolynsk, together with the rural settlement of Blahodatne and six villages, is incorporated into Novovolynsk urban hromada. Population:
Located within the Lviv-Volyn coal basin until recently, Novovolynsk was a major coal mining center of the region. The city has a few factories: a ferroconcrete plant, brickworks, a plant for mining equipment maintenance, a meatpacking and bread factory, and a woodworking plant.
Novovolynsk was built in 1950 as a mining town in the USSR. It obtained city status in 1957. The word "Novovolynsk" is a morphological blend, meaning "a new town in the Volyn Oblast".
There is a monument to a famous Ukrainian poet and artist Taras Shevchenko in Novovolynsk. Prominent civil society activist Anna Garmash is also from Novovolynsk, as well as footballer Artem Fedetskyi.
The town is twinned with Hartlepool, England and Echirolles, France.
Novovolynsk is situated in the southwest of Volyn Oblast in the far north-west of Ukraine. The city area is about 17 square kilometers. The state border to Poland runs 15 km to the West from the city; 92 km to the North from Novovolynsk there is the state border to Belarus.
The city is well-situated. The distance to the national highway H22 Ustyluh – Lutsk – Rivne is only 18 km. The distance to the international highway E373 (coincides with national M07) Warsaw – Lublin – Kovel – Sarny – Korosten – Kyiv is only 76 km.