Dobropillja

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Dobropillja (disambiguation) .

Dobropillja
Добропілля
	Dobropillja
Basic data
Oblast :	Donetsk Oblast
Rajon :	District-free city
Height :	139 m
Area :	11.89 km²
Residents :	30,445 (2016)
Population density :	2,561 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes :	85000
Area code :	+380 6277
Geographic location :	48 ° 28 '  N , 37 ° 5'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 28 '10 "  N , 37 ° 5' 0"  E
KOATUU :	1411545000
Administrative structure :	3 cities , 2 urban-type settlements , 1 settlement
Address:	вул.Першотравнева 83 85 500 м. Добропілля
Website :	http://radadobropillya.org/ua/
Statistical information
Dobropillja

Dobropillja ( Ukrainian Добропілля ; Russian Доброполье Dobropolje ) is a mining town in the Donets Basin in eastern Ukraine in the Donetsk Oblast with about 30,000 inhabitants (2016).

Dobropillja Railway Station

geography

Geographical location

Dobropillja is a town of regional importance in the Donbass and the administrative center of the Dobropillja Rajon (but not part of it itself) 95 km northwest of the Donetsk Oblast center .

Borough

The entire municipality has 63,500 inhabitants (2013).

It is divided into the town of Dobropillja, the municipal councils:

• Bilezke with:
  • Bilezke (city, Ukrainian Білицьке )
  • Wodjanske ( urban-type settlement , Ukrainian Водянське )
• Biloserske with
  • Biloserske (city, Ukrainian Білозерське )
  • Bokowe ( settlement , Ukrainian Бокове)

as well as the settlement council

• Novodonetske with:
  • Novodonetske (urban-type settlement, Ukrainian Новодонецьке )

history

Founded in 1840, the town was granted city rights on August 8, 1953. Since 1963 Dobropillja has been a town of regional importance and since 1966 a district center. The place was occupied from October 19, 1941 to September 1943 (with interruptions) by troops of the German Wehrmacht . From 1968 to 2010 there was a trolleybus system in the city (Ukrainian Добропільський тролейбус) with a route length of about 15 kilometers.

population

Population development

1859	1923	1926	1939	1959	1970	1979	1989	2001	2005	2016
44	811	570	5,901	23,666	30,115	32,587	40,064	35,638	33,896	30,445

Sources: 1859; 1923-1970; 1979; 1989-2016

Web links

Commons : Dobropillja  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Page about the city (Russian)
• History of cities and villages of Ukraine on ukrssr.ru (Russian)
• Entry on the place in the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine (Ukrainian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Demography of Ukrainian cities on pop-stat.mashke.org
2. ↑ Data from the Central Statistical Office of Donetsk Oblast (Ukrainian)
3. ↑ ^{a b} City history ( Memento of the original from May 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Ukrainian)  
4. ↑ Population figures on Citypopulation.de