<p>The<br />

town of Kramatorsk (Kramatorska, Kramatorovka, Kramatorske) emerged<br />

close to the Kramatorska railway station of the Kursk-Kharkiv-Azov<br />

railway near the Kazenny Torets river (Izium district, Kharkiv<br />

province). Kramatorska became a junction goods and passenger station<br />

of this railway. Then a settlement with the same name began to<br />

develop around the station.</p><br />

<p>In<br />

the early 20th century the population of Kramatorska numbered over 12<br />

thousand people. There were a plant hospital, two schools and a trade<br />

school there. As of that time, there also were a pharmacy (1897), a<br />

telegraph office (1898), an international telephone station (1909),<br />

and a cinema (1913) in the town. In 1912 the Kramatorsk Sports<br />

Society was founded, a stadium was built and a football team was<br />

organized.</p><p><br />

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</p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom:.11in;">[http://www.skmz.dn.ua/]</p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom:.11in;">Author: Volodymyr Kulikov</p>