Karlivka

Karlivka (Карлівка, ; Карловка) is a city in Poltava Raion, Poltava Oblast, Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Karlivka urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population:

History
On the site of modern Karlivka in the 1670s, settlers from the right bank founded the settlement of Orchyk, which was part of the first Poltava hundred of the Poltava Regiment. In the first quarter of the 18th century, the lands of the Poltava Regiment between the Kolomak and Orchyk rivers were given to the general of the Russian army Johann Bernhard Weissbach. After Weisbach's death in 1735, Karlivka was presented to Field marshal Minikh, who named the settlement Minikhpol.

Before the World War II, Karlivka had more than 10,000 inhabitants,and was classified as an urban-type settlement. A hospital, a polyclinic, a high school, and a school of factory training operated in the village.

Until 18 July 2020, Karlivka was the administrative center of Karlivka Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Poltava Oblast to four. The area of Karlivka Raion was merged into Poltava Raion. On 26 January 2024, a new law entered into force which abolished the status of urban-type settlement, and Karlivka became a rural settlement.

Education

 * Nina Gerasimenko Charles High School
 * School №1
 * School №3
 * School №4
 * House of children's and youth creativity
 * School of Arts
 * Charles Vocational School
 * Central District Hospital
 * House of Culture
 * Museum

Economics
According to the nature of production, the city is industrial and agricultural. On the territory of the city are: OJSC "Karlovysk Machine-Building Plant", OJSC "Karlovy Vary Plant", October Alcohol Plant, LLC "Karlovsky Sugar Factory", OJSC "Furniture Factory", OJSC "Karlovsky Bakery", Oil and Gas Expedition of Deep Drilling Management, farms, 4 repair and construction companies, motor transport enterprise ATП-15340 and others. 18 companies in total.

On the territory of the city council there are two reformed agricultural enterprises, 4 farms.

In April 2019, the construction of a cooperative factory of the Association of Milk Producers began, with 10 participants being the founders, and it is planned to be put into operation at the end of 2021. The first stage of the plant will allow processing approximately 500 tons of extra-class milk daily. Further capacity of the plant will be increased to 1000 tons.

Farms located within 300 km of the plant will be involved in cooperation with the enterprise. The company will produce elite semi-hard and hard cheeses and plan to deep-process the whey.

Notable people

 * Trofim Lysenko (1898–1976), Soviet Ukrainian agrobiologist, promoter of the pseudoscientific agricultural and heritability of acquired characteristics theories termed Lysenkoism, which was official Soviet policy
 * Nikolai Podgorny (1903–1983), Soviet politician, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (1965–1977)
 * Mikhail Krichevsky (1897–2008), last surviving Russian Army veteran of the First World War