Kalyta

Kalyta Калита
Urban-type settlement
Coat of arms
Kalyta Location of Kalyta in Ukraine
Coordinates: UA 50°45′01″N 31°01′35″E / 50.75028°N 31.02639°ECoordinates: UA 50°45′01″N 31°01′35″E / 50.75028°N 31.02639°E
Country	Ukraine
Province	Kiev Oblast
District	Brovary Raion
Founded	1600
Town status	1973
Government
• Town Head	Stanislav Moroz
Area
• Total	11.27 km^2 (4.35 sq mi)
Population (2001)
• Total	4,982
• Density	440/km^2 (1,100/sq mi)
Time zone	EET (UTC+2)
• Summer (DST)	EEST (UTC+3)
Postal code	07420
Area code	+380 4594
Website	rada.gov.ua

Kalyta (Ukrainian: Калита) is an urban-type settlement in Brovary Raion (district) of Kiev Oblast (province) in northern Ukraine. Its population was 4,982 as of the 2001 Ukrainian Census.^[1] Current population: 4,765 (2013 est.)^[2].

History

The town of Kalyta is said to have been founded in 1600,^[1] although the first written mention of the town dates Kalyta to 1628, seen in an old Polish illustration. During the middle of the 17th century, the local organization of the Elected Cossacks were based in Kalyta.

Symbol

Kalyta was settled on a raised landscape, which allowed the town's inhabitants to build windmills which would produce grain for all of the nearby settlements. At the turn of the 20th century, townsfolk stated that there was a total of 62 windmills in Kalyta. The town's coat of arms, respectfully, features a windmill.

Notable people

• Mitrofan Aleksandrovych (1821–1882), Ukrainian writer and historian
• Nataliya Petryna (born 1973), Ukrainian geologist, environmentalist, docent of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv

References

1. "Kalyta, Kiev Oblast, Brovary Raion". Regions of Ukraine and their Structure (in Ukrainian). Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Retrieved 19 January 2012.
2. "Чисельність наявного населення України (Actual population of Ukraine)" (in Ukrainian). State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Retrieved 21 January 2015.