Konstantinovka
Konstantinovka
a city (since 1932) in Donetsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, on the Krivoi Torets River (Don basin).
Konstantinovka is a highway and railroad junction (on the Lozovaia, Rostov-on-Don, and lasinovataia lines). Population, 108,000 (1972; 25,300 in 1926). The industrial growth of the city has been spurred by its location on transportation lines connecting Krivoi Rog and the Donbas and also by the availability nearby of significant deposits of flux limestone, sand, and heat-resistant clay. Konstantinovka is a major industrial center of the Donbas. The metallurgical and glass industries occupy the main place in the economy of the city. Konstantinovka has metallurgical, chemical, nonferrous metallurgical, and glass plants (the glass plants produce more than 25 types of glass, including shall) and a factory producing high-voltage apparatus. There is a leather-dressing and extracts combine. Refractories are manufactured. The city is the home of the general technical department of the Ukrainian Polytechnic Correspondence Institute, indus-trial and agricultural technicums, and a medical school. There is a museum of history and local lore. The city was founded in 1870 as a settlement around a railroad station. Before the October Revolution of 1917, it was a manufacturing settlement.
Konstantinovka
an urban-type settlement in Krasnokutsk Raion, Kharkov Oblast, Ukrainian SSR. Located 16 km northwest of the Kolomak railroad station on the Poltava-Kharkov line. A sugar refinery and a beet sovkhoz are located in Konstantinovka.