Svitlovodsk
city of Ukraine
Svitlovodsk (Ukrainian: Світловодськ, IPA: [ˌs⁽ʲ⁾witloˈwɔdzʲsʲk] ) is a city located on the banks of the Dnieper River in Oleksandriia Raion, part of Kirovohrad Oblast in central Ukraine. It is the administrative center of Svitlovodsk urban hromada, one of the many hromadas of Ukraine. The city has a population of around 43,130 (2022 estimate).
Between 1962 and 1969, the city was briefly renamed Kremhes, reflecting its status as a satellite city of Kremenchuk.
Administrative status
Until 18 July 2020, Svitlovodsk was designated as a city of oblast significance and belonged to the Svitlovodsk Municipality. It was the administrative center of Svitlovodsk Raion, even though it did not belong to the raion. As part of the administrative reform of Ukraine (which reduced the number of raions of Kirovohrad Oblast to four), Svitlovodsk Municipality was merged into Oleksandriia Raion.
History
Svitlovodsk was created in the 1950s during the Soviet Union regime to replace Novogeorgievsk, a city in the flood plain of the dam for the new Kremenchuk Hydroelectric Power Plant, and to house the dam workers. For the first two years, the city was called Khruschev after the First Secretary of the CPSU Nikita Khrushchev despite the ban on naming populated places after leaders. In 1962, after Khruschev visited Svitlovodsk, he ordered the local authorities to rename the city; thus, for a while it was known simply as KremHES. The power plant was needed for the smelting of industry-grade metals and alloys, for defense purposes.
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Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1011435. Authority coordinates are 49.083, 33.250. 3 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2022, 1962, 1969 and 2020.
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