The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07.
Melitopol
(mlytô´pl) (KEY) , city (1989 pop. 174,000), S Ukraine, on the Molochnoy River. A manufacturing center, it produces heavy machinery and has flour mills and food-processing plants. It was founded in the early 19th cent. as the settlement Novo-Aleksandrovka but was renamed in 1841.