Malynivka, Polohy Raion, Zaporizhzhia Oblast

Malynivka (Мали́нівка), known as Turkenivka (Туркенівка) before 1946, is a village (selo) in southern Ukraine. It is the center of Malynivka rural hromada (community), in Polohy Raion, Zaporizhzhia Oblast. It had a population of 873 in 2001.

History


Due to the Holodomor, a manmade famine in Soviet Ukraine between 1932 and 1933, 160 residents of the village died.

On 12 June 2020, in accordance with a decree from the Ukrainian parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, Malynivka became the administrative center of the eponymous Malynivka rural hromada. On 17 July the same year, as a result of country-wide administrative decentralization reforms in Ukraine in which Huliaipole Raion was abolished, the village became part of Polohy Raion.

On 5 March 2022, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the village briefly fell under Russian occupation. On 22 March the same year, the village was liberated by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Many houses had been destroyed and electricity was no longer working by the end of the fighting. On 20 February 2023, the regional Ukrainian military administration reported that Russian forces shelled civilian infrastructure in the village.

Demographics
In the 1989 USSR census, it was reported that the village had a population of 863, of whom 366 were men and 497 were women.

By the time of the 2001 census in independent Ukraine, that number had grown to 873. The native languages as of the 2001 census were 97.51% Ukrainian, 2.38% Russian, and 0.11% Bulgarian.