Melitopol (Ukrainian: Мелітополь, Melitopol’;Greek: Μελιτόπολις) is a city in the Zaporizhia Oblast of Ukraine. It is a home to an internationally-important engine-building industry. As of 2005, its population is 151,000. It was founded in 1784. Zaporizhia Oblast (Запорізька область, Zaporizka oblast’ or Запоріжщина, Zaporizhchyna in Ukrainian) is an oblast (province) of southern Ukraine. ... An engine is something that produces some effect from a given input. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Twin towns
Melitopol' is currently twinned with: This article is about partnerships between towns distant from each other; see Twin cities for the unrelated concept of physically neighbouring cities. ...
Melitopol' is about 100 km (about 60 mi) south of Zaporizhzhya, in a steppe region where vegetables, grapes, and other fruits are grown.
In Melitopol' are the Melitopol' Institute of Agricultural Mechanization (founded in 1930), the Melitopol' Pedagogical Institute (1922) and a regional museum.
Nearby is the Melitopol'kurhan, a royal burial mound of the Scythians from the 4th century BC, excavated in 1954.
Nestled between green mountains and pastoral streams, the city of Melitopol, a former country vacation spot, known for its peaceful nature and proximity to the Black Sea, has become a growing source of Jewish revival.
During World War II, Melitopol was in the part of the Ukraine that fought vigorously against the Nazi invasion.
Jewish consciousness was suppressed and subsequently the local Jews intermarried as occurred in the rest of the former Soviet Union.
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