Odessa agglomeration - [1] agglomeration (urban formation), which includes Odessa with all its suburbs. It stretches along the Black Sea for 120 km. The agglomeration population is 1 360 000 people. ( 2018 year ). A significant role in the sustainable development of the Odessa agglomeration was played by small cities, the largest of which - Ilyichevsk (nowadays. Chernomorsk ) received the status of a city in 1973 and has a population of about 70 thousand people [2] . In the post-Soviet period, it suffers from depopulation processes associated with deindustrialization, natural population decline and a sharp slowdown in migration growth, although Odessa is traditionally one of the leaders in Ukraine by this indicator. The agglomeration reached its peak at the end of the Soviet period, when the basis for the economic prosperity of the agglomeration was the maritime industry and the transport and logistics sector, which is still in demand [3] .
| Metropolitan area | |
| Odessa agglomeration | |
|---|---|
| A country |  Ukraine |
| Region | Odessa region |
| History and Geography | |
| Timezone | UTC + 2 |
| Agglomeration | 1.36 million people |
Content
Formation History
Odessa agglomeration is historically the first agglomeration located entirely within modern Ukraine. The prerequisites for the formation of agglomeration here were identified in the 19th century. Only a hundred years after its founding in 1795, Odessa experienced unusually rapid growth and at the end of the 19th century turned into the third largest city in Russia (after St. Petersburg and Moscow, along with Riga) and the second largest port in the cargo turnover of the Russian Empire. At the same time, the southern, semi-agrarian character of the Odessa hinterland, as well as the maritime borders, did not allow the city to become a fully-developed and highly developed agglomeration even during the period of rapid industrialization of the Soviet period, when the city population grew at the fastest pace. For example, at the end of the Soviet period, Polyan P.M. (1988) classified the Odessa agglomeration as “extremely underdeveloped,” placing it on a par with the agglomerations of cities such as Gomel , Tallinn , Dushanbe , Bishkek , Fergana - Margilan . Thus, Odessa in this series was the only Soviet city of millionaires who could not form a full-fledged metropolitan area. For comparison, the “most developed agglomerations” of the Ukrainian SSR include the polycentric agglomeration of Donbass Donetsk – Makeevka – Gorlovka , in which, in contrast to Kiev, the center hypertrophy is less pronounced, as well as the Lugansk agglomeration [1] . In the period after independence, the Odessa agglomeration, like almost all the other agglomerations of Ukraine, suffers from a strong depopulation, which is only partially offset by the migration influx of the population. By the beginning of the XXI century, the Odessa agglomeration fell to the 465th place in the world in terms of the number of population present [4] .
Modern composition
Composition:
- Cities (1,130,300 people):
- Odessa
- Chernomorsk
- South
- Teplodar
- Belyaevka
- Separate
- Regions:
- Ovidiopolsky District (fully)
- Belyaevsky district (urban settlements)
- Limansky district (Chernomorskoye, Novye Belyary )
- Villages (54,600 people):
- Ovidiopol
- Velikodolinskoe (Ovidiopolsky district of Odessa region)
- Tairovo (Ovidiopolsky district of Odessa region)
- Vanguard (Ovidiopolsky district of Odessa region)
- Aleksandrovka (Illichivsk City Council)
- Khlebodar (Belyaevsky district of Odessa region)
- Black Sea (Limansky district of Odessa region)
- Dobroslav (Limansky district of Odessa region)
- New Belyary (Liman district of Odessa region)
- villages (165,400 people)
Economics
Economic specialization: transport , mechanical engineering (including machine tool building), chemical, oil refining, food industry.
See also
- City agglomerations of Ukraine