Volodymyr Kuklin
The city chairman
The city of Pavlohrad is one of the largest cities of Dnipropetrovsk region. The geographical position of the city to the west of the Donetsk coal-basin gives every reason to name it the capital of the Western Donbas. The city is located in the crossing of the highways and railways of the international and national value, which enables the functioning of communications (supplier - manufacturer - consumer), and is instrumental in the placing of different production types in the city. Fertile black earths and favourable climatic conditions provide the steadily high agricultural crop-yields. From the economic point of view Pavlohrad is an industrial city. Due to the efforts of the society and the administration of the city, it is constantly developed. And in general, the city is open for everyone, who wishes to work there.
In 1779 in the triangle between the rivers of Hnizdka, Vovcha, and Kocherha near the Luhanska outskirt there was built an entrenchment which together with the rivers of Hnizdka, Vovcha, and Samara formed the locality (’hrad’) that served as an original defence and received the name of Pavlohrad. In 1784 Pavlohrad, as a proper small district town, became a part of the Katerynoslav region.
The city went on developing and at the end of the 19th century Pavlohrad became the well-known centre of trade in corn and flour. Pavlohrad bread was exported to the cities of the Russian empire, as well as to London and Constantinople. The developed infrastructure of the city self-government, widespread patronage of art, active participation of the military elite in the life of the city made Pavlohrad a prominent centre of the cultural and educational life of the Katerynoslav region.
The First World War, the revolution, the Civil war caused a lot of harm to the city and its habitants.
During the post-war years the city was gradually reconstructed. Building of mines and the discovered deposits of coal gave a reason to consider Pavlohrad the centre of the Western Donbas.
In 2006 the city of Pavlohrad celebrated its 222nd anniversary.
Pavlohrad is a regional educational centre. There is a Western Donbas Private Institute of Economy and Management, a medical school, the Pavlohrad branch of the Interregional Academy of Human Resources Management, a vocational lyceum, a technical school of the Dnipropetrovsk National Mining University. Such educational establishments provide the city with specialists.
There is a centralized library system, a Historical Museum of Local Lore, which became the winner of the 1st All-Ukrainian museum festival "Third Millennium Museum" in 2006 in Dnipropetrovsk, 3 schools of aesthetic education, 5 club establishments, the B. Zakhava Theatre, working in Pavlohrad. The Central library for the fifth time (!) received the confirmation of victory in the grant of the US Embassy in Ukraine "Internet for readers of public libraries".
There is a branched network of sports establishments in the city -
4 sports schools for children and youth, 5 stadiums, 46 athletic halls,
a swimming pool.
There are many beautiful places for recreation in the Pavlohradskyi district. Almost in every village it is possible to find a comfortable nook in a forest or on the bank of the river.
In Pavlohrad, where the area of green plantations amounts to 319 h, it is possible to enjoy rest in one of the 5 parks that occupy an area of 56 h. Many local tourists constantly go to the forests that adjoin the city.
The unique look of the city is created by its architectural sights. There have been kept a few "modern"-style buildings of the end of the 19th - beginning of the 20th centuries. It is the buildings of the former Town Council, the Women’s high school, the Noble Assemblies, of the "Passazh" shop, the "Russia" hotel, the high school church, the Count’s theatre, etc. The Savior Not-Made-by-Hands Image orthodox temple built in 1896-1899 is the real decoration of Pavlohrad, which protects the city, its historical past, and the present.
Pavlohrad has an old industrial history. The main manufacturing industries of production sphere are the machine-building and coal-mining ones. The greater number of workers is employed in the coal-mining, chemical and machine-building industries. There are generally developed the woodworking, printing industries and metallurgy. Due to the foreign investments there are developed the new types of production.
Except for the support of competitiveness of local producers, the city of Pavlohrad meets the requirements of the new companies and investors. There is a considerable increase of the volumes of trade going on. Due to it the city became the district trade centre. During the last
5 years there were built and opened 7 large shopping centres and reconstructed the central department store. It allowed the attraction of the large trading networks of the all-Ukrainian importance.
Comfortable geographical position, skilled labour force, aspiration for cooperation make the Pavlohrad city attractive for investors.
The design of the city considerably changed with the appearance of the new trading networks in the city. Simultaneously with the erecting of the new buildings the old ones undergo reconstruction. The city rises and advances. The main trend of the strategic vision of the future is the provision of growth of the standards of life for the habitants of Pavlohrad, opportunities for businessmen concerning the implementation of investments and encouragement for the development of business.

95 Lenina Street, 51400 Pavlohrad, Dnipropetrovsk region
tel: +38 (0563) 20-05-60, (05632) 6-04-04
fax: +38 (05632) 6-01-79
e-mail: info@pigvik.dp.ua
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