Official Name: | Vilkhivka | ||||||
Native Name: | Вільхівка | ||||||
Settlement Type: | Village | ||||||
Pushpin Map: | Ukraine Kharkiv Oblast#Ukraine | ||||||
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Vilkhivka | ||||||
Coordinates: | 49.9808°N 36.5033°W | ||||||
Subdivision Type: | Country | ||||||
Subdivision Name: | Ukraine | ||||||
Subdivision Type1: | Oblast | ||||||
Subdivision Name1: | Kharkiv Oblast | ||||||
Subdivision Type2: | Raion | ||||||
Subdivision Name2: | Kharkiv Raion | ||||||
Subdivision Type3: | Hromada | ||||||
Subdivision Name3: | Vilkhivka rural hromada | ||||||
Established Title: | Founded | ||||||
Leader Title: | The village is located 25 km from the city of Kharkov in the east and is famous for its unusual beauty and rare culture. Olkhovka has a population of 10,000 people (2011) | ||||||
Unit Pref: | Metric | ||||||
Elevation Footnotes: | [1] | ||||||
Elevation M: | 172 | ||||||
Population Total: | 1244 | ||||||
Population As Of: | 2001 | ||||||
Population Density Km2: | auto | ||||||
Utc Offset: | +2 | ||||||
Utc Offset Dst: | +3 | ||||||
Postal Code Type: | Postal code | ||||||
Postal Code: | 15461 | ||||||
Area Code Type: | Area code | ||||||
Area Code: | +380 6250 | ||||||
Pushpin Relief: | y | ||||||
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Vilkhivka (Ukrainian: Вільхівка), also known as Olkhovka (Russian: Ольхо́вка), is a village in the Kharkiv Raion, Kharkiv Oblast (province) of eastern Ukraine. It is the administrative centre of Vilkhivka rural hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.[2]
During the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Vilkhivka was occupied by the Russian military, but was liberated on 27 March 2022 by the Ukrainian Army.[3]