Sonziwka

Sonziwka

Сонцівка

Sonziwka

Basic data

Oblast :

Donetsk Oblast

Rajon :

Pokrovsk Raion

Height :

121 m

Area :

Information is missing

Residents :

795 (2001)

Postcodes :

85374

Area code :

+380 623

Geographic location :

48 ° 3 ' N , 37 ° 11' E Coordinates: 48 ° 2 '56 " N , 37 ° 11' 26" E

KOATUU :

1422782301

Administrative structure :

4 settlements

Address:

вул. Центральна буд. 11 А
85374 с. Сонцівка

Website :

Community website

Statistical information

Sonziwka

Sonziwka ( Ukrainian Сонцівка ; Russian Сонцовка Sonzowka ) is a settlement in the Ukrainian Donetsk Oblast with about 800 inhabitants (2001).

Sonziwka is the administrative center of the same name, 5,701 km² District Municipality in the south of Rajon Pokrowsk to which even the settlements Berestky ( Берестки , ⊙ ) with about 200 inhabitants, Sorja ( Зоря , ⊙ ) with about 200 inhabitants and Nowodmytriwka ( Новодмитрівка , ⊙ ) with about 210 inhabitants.

The village is situated at an altitude of 121 m on the banks of Schtschurowa ( Щурова ), a tributary of the Wowtscha , 32 km south of Rajonzentrum Pokrowsk and 55 km west of the Oblastzentrum Donetsk .

history

The village, founded in 1785, was initially in the Ujesd Bachmut of the Yekaterinoslaw governorate in the Russian Empire and was named after its owner Dmitri Dmitrijewitsch Sonzow Sonzowka . In the Soviet Union , it was renamed Krasne ( Красне ) in the 1920s and kept the name until it was renamed Sonzivka in 2016 in the course of decommunization in Ukraine . In 1967 a museum was opened in the village in memory of the composer Prokofiev, who was born here, and in 1968 the local music school was named after him.