Mars, Chernihiv Oblast


Mars is a village in Ukraine, in Semenivka Raion, Chernihiv Oblast. The population is 5 persons; in the early 2000s 30 persons lived in the village.

Name

In 1924, when the planet Mars was in opposition to Earth, the Soviet government decided to give the name "Mars" to this village.

Population

In the USSR it had a population of 265. By 1995 the total population had decreased and was only 46 people. In the early 2000s this number reduced again to 30, in 2018 to 6, and in 2019 to 5, the members of two families.

Tesla photo

On 1 February 2019, a journalist from Ukrainian Pravda with support from the Ukrainian company «Electrocars» visited the village of Mars with a Tesla Model S. They took a picture of the Model S showing the village's name Mars and tagged with the name of Elon Musk. They joked that this was the first to reach Mars. Musk answered: "Whoa cool."