Dobropillia
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Dobropillia Добропілля | |
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  Dobropillia .svg) Dobropillia | |
| Coordinates: 48°28′08″N 37°04′58″E / 48.46889°N 37.08278°E | |
| Country |  Ukraine |
| Oblast | Donetsk Oblast |
| Raion | Pokrovsk Raion |
| Hromada | Dobropillia urban hromada |
| Founded | 1840s |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Serhiy Bondarenko |
| Area | 11.89 km2 (4.59 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 138 m (453 ft) |
| Population (2022) | 28,170 |
| Climate | Dfb |
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Dobropillia (Ukrainian: Добропілля, IPA: [dobroˈp⁽ʲ⁾ilʲːɐ] ; Russian: Доброполье, romanized: Dobropolye) is a city in Pokrovsk Raion, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. Prior to 2020, it was a city of oblast significance and served as the administrative center of the former Dobropillia Raion, though it did not belong to the raion. It is located 94 kilometres (58 mi) from Donetsk, the administrative center of the oblast. Population: 28,170 (2022 estimate);[1] 40,064 (1989);[2]
History
[edit]A local newspaper is published here since February 1935.[3]
During the Second World War, the settlement was occupied by Axis troops. City since 1953. In 1970, the population of the city was 30 thousand people, the basis of the economy was coal mining.[4][5]
Demographics
[edit]As of the Ukrainian Census of 2001:[6]
- Ethnicity
- Ukrainians: 71.3%
- Russians: 25.9%
- Belarusians: 1.1%
- Tatars: 0.4%
- Greeks: 0.2%
- Language
- Russian: 61.0%
- Ukrainian: 38.5%
- Belarusian: 0.1%
References
[edit]- ^ Чисельність наявного населення України на 1 січня 2022 [Number of Present Population of Ukraine, as of January 1, 2022] (PDF) (in Ukrainian and English). Kyiv: State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 July 2022.
- ^ Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989 г. Численность городского населения союзных республик, их территориальных единиц, городских поселений и городских районов по полу
- ^ № 2703. Путь победы // Летопись периодических и продолжающихся изданий СССР 1986 - 1990. Часть 2. Газеты. М., "Книжная палата", 1994. стр.354
- ^ Доброполье // Большая Советская Энциклопедия. / под ред. А. М. Прохорова. 3-е изд. том 8. М., «Советская энциклопедия», 1972. стр.376
- ^ Доброполье // Советский энциклопедический словарь. редколл., гл. ред. А. М. Прохоров. 4-е изд. М., «Советская энциклопедия», 1986. стр.402
- ^ "Home". ukrcensus.gov.ua.
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