Pokrovsk (Ukraine)

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Pokrovsk
Покровськ
Pokrovsk coat of arms
Pokrovsk (Ukraine)
Pokrovsk
Pokrovsk
Basic data
Oblast : Donetsk Oblast
Rajon : District-free city
Height : 181 m
Area : 39.3 km²
Residents : 64,533 (2014)
Population density : 1,642 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes : 85300
Area code : +380 6239
Geographic location : 48 ° 17 '  N , 37 ° 11'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 16 '55 "  N , 37 ° 10' 50"  E
KOATUU : 1413200000
Administrative structure : 2 cities , 1 urban-type settlement
Mayor : Andriy Lyashenko
Address: пл. Chibankov 11
85 300 m. Покровськ
Website : http://pokrovsk-rada.gov.ua/
Statistical information
Pokrovsk (Donetsk Oblast)
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Pokrovsk ( Ukrainian Покровськ ; Russian Покровск ) is an industrial and mining town in the Donetsk Oblast in eastern Ukraine with 65,000 inhabitants (2014).

Pokrovsk is a city under Oblast Administration and the administrative center of the Pokrovsk Raion named after him .

Center of Pokrovsk

geography

Pokrovsk lies on the bank of the Hryschynka river , which flows over the Byk into the Samara . The city is located on the highway M 04 , a section of the European route E50 57 km northwest of the Oblastzentrum Donetsk and 7 km west of Myrnohrad .

The urban district has a total of 77,400 inhabitants (2013). In addition to Pokrovsk, the urban district also includes the town of Rodynske with 10,641 inhabitants (2014) and the urban-type Shevchenko settlement with 1,774 inhabitants (2014).

history

Founded in 1875 as Grischino ( Гришино ), the settlement was renamed Postyshevo ( Постышево ) in honor of the politician Pavel Postyshev in 1934 . In 1938, the previous namesake Postyshev had fallen out of favor, arrested and shot, the name was changed to Красноармейское Krasnoarmejskoje (Ukrainian Красноармійськ Krasnoarmiysk - “City of the Red Army”) and at the same time the town was granted city rights.

The city was occupied by the Wehrmacht on October 21, 1941 during World War II . In February 1943 there was a 12-day battle for the city. On the night of February 10-11, 1943, Krasnoarmiysk was occupied by the Soviet 4th Guard Panzer Corps. After the reconquest by the 5th SS Panzer Division "Wiking" with the support of the 333rd Infantry and the 7th Panzer Division , numerous dead were discovered on February 18, 1943, showing mutilations and traces of abuse.

On February 23, 1943, the city was again completely under German control until the final liberation by the Red Army on September 8, 1943. Since January 1963 the city has been under oblast administration. On May 12, 2016, as part of decommunization in Ukraine, the name was changed to Pokrovsk.

population

Sources: 1913, 1923–1959, 1970, 1979–2014


Personalities

  • City center

  • City center

  • church

  • railway station

Web links

Commons : Pokrovsk  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Demography of Ukrainian cities on pop-stat.mashke.org
  2. ↑ Data from the Central Statistical Office of Donetsk Oblast (Ukrainian)
  3. ↑ Regions of Ukraine and their composition / Rodynske on w1.c1.rada.gov.ua
  4. ↑ Regions of Ukraine and their composition / Shevchenko on w1.c1.rada.gov.ua
  5. ↑ City history ( Memento of the original from March 9, 2013 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. on krasn-rada.gov.ua (Ukrainian) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.krasn-rada.gov.ua
  6. ↑ Верховна Рада України; Постанова від 12.05.2016 № 1353-VIII Про перейменування деяких населених пунктів
  7. ↑ http://gazeta.ua/articles/istoriya-movi/_na-donbasi-zyavilisya-mirnograd-pokrovsk-i-bojkivskij-rajon/697479
  8. ↑ City history on krasn-rada.gov.ua (Ukrainian)
  9. ↑ 1970 Census of the USSR on webgeo.ru