Central Ukraine (thanks to its geographical position and a bridge over the River Dnipro) and a major river port on the main river of Ukraine. Sport Kremenchuk is home to HK Kremenchuk ice hockey team who compete in the Ukrainian Championship and FC Kremin Kremenchuk football team. Beside FC Kremin, the city was also represented by number of other professional football clubs such as FC Adoms Kremenchuk, FC Naftokhimik Kremenchuk, and FC Vahonobudivnyk Kremenchuk. The city has several sports schools, about six stadiums including Polytechnic Stadium (main city stadium), Kremin Stadium, and others, as well as couple of swimming pools and couple of athletic halls. Gallery Notable residents Fedor Opanasovich Chaika, Great-grandfather of the composer Tchaikovsky Alexander Pechersky, one of the leaders of Sobibor uprising Emmanuel Mané-Katz, artist Leo Ornstein, composer and pianist Avraham Shlonsky, Israeli poet and editor Dimitri Tiomkin, film composer Anton Makarenko, educator, social worker and writer. Sergey Vashchenko, Balalaika virtuoso and conductor Vyacheslav Senchenko, World welterweight boxing champion Charles David Spivak, founder of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society Yehoshua Hankin, Zionist pioneer Twin towns – sister cities Kremenchuk is twinned with: Svishtov, Bulgaria Wenzhou, China Bydgoszcz, Poland Berdiansk, Ukraine Bila Tserkva, Ukraine Kolomyia, Ukraine Jiayuguan, China Alytus, Lithuania Sidoarjo, Indonesia Michalovce, Slovakia Snina, Slovakia Providence, Rhode Island, United States Bitola, North Macedonia Rishon LeZion, Israel See also Kremenchuk University Kremenchuk River Port Kremenchuk Steel Works References External links Official homepage of Kremenchuk Today's photo of Kremenchuk Soviet topographic map 1:100,000 The murder of the Jews of Kremenchuk during World War II, at Yad Vashem website. Cities in Poltava Oblast Kremenchugsky Uyezd Cossack Hetmanate Populated places established in 1571 Cities of regional significance in Ukraine 1571 establishments in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Holocaust locations in Ukraine Populated places on the Dnieper in Ukraine