Dobropillia

Dobropillia (Ukrainian: Добропілля, Russian: Доброполье — Dobropolye) is a city in the Pokrovsk Raion of the Donetsk Oblast (province) in 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.

Dobropillia
Добропілля
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Dobropillia
Dobropillia
Coordinates: 48°28′08″N 37°04′58″E
Country Ukraine
Oblast Donetsk Oblast
RaionPokrovsk Raion
Founded1840s
Area
11.89 km2 (4.59 sq mi)
Elevation
138 m (453 ft)
Population
 (2021)
28,757
ClimateDfb

Population: 40,064 (1989);[1] 28,757 (2021 est.)[2] Distance to Donetsk - 94 kilometres (58 mi).

History

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

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

References
  1. Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989 г. Численность городского населения союзных республик, их территориальных единиц, городских поселений и городских районов по полу
  2. Чисельність наявного населення України на 1 січня 2021 / Number of Present Population of Ukraine, as of January 1, 2021 (PDF) (in Ukrainian and English). Kyiv: State Statistics Service of Ukraine.
  3. № 2703. Путь победы // Летопись периодических и продолжающихся изданий СССР 1986 - 1990. Часть 2. Газеты. М., "Книжная палата", 1994. стр.354
  4. Доброполье // Большая Советская Энциклопедия. / под ред. А. М. Прохорова. 3-е изд. том 8. М., «Советская энциклопедия», 1972. стр.376
  5. Доброполье // Советский энциклопедический словарь. редколл., гл. ред. А. М. Прохоров. 4-е изд. М., «Советская энциклопедия», 1986. стр.402
  6. http://www.ukrcensus.gov.ua


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