Dobropillia Raion ( uk, Добропільський район,
translit.: ''Dobropil's'kyi raion''; russian: Добропо́льский район,
translit.: ''Dobropol'skiy raion'') was a
raion
A raion (also spelt rayon) is a type of administrative unit of several post-Soviet states. The term is used for both a type of subnational entity and a division of a city. The word is from the French (meaning 'honeycomb, department'), and is co ...
(
district
A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or counties, several municipalities, subdivisions o ...
) within the southwestern part of
Donetsk Oblast
The Donetsk Oblast ( ukr, Донецька область, Donetska oblast, ), also referred to as Donechchyna ( ukr, Донеччина, links=no), is an oblast of eastern Ukraine. It is Ukraine's most populous province, with around 4.1 mill ...
in eastern
Ukraine
Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...
. Its
administrative center
An administrative center is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune
A commune is an alternative term for an intentional community. Commune or comună or ...
was
Dobropillia
Dobropillia (, ; — 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 ...
, which was incorporated separately as the
town of oblast significance and did not belong to the raion. Its area was . The raion was abolished on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Donetsk Oblast to eight, of which only five were controlled by the government. The last estimate of the raion population was {{{Ua-pop-est2020, 14,901.
Within Dobropillia Raion there were one
urban-type settlement
Urban-type settlementrussian: посёлок городско́го ти́па, translit=posyolok gorodskogo tipa, abbreviated: russian: п.г.т., translit=p.g.t.; ua, селище міського типу, translit=selyshche mis'koho typu, ab ...
(Sviatohorivka - 2,100 inhabitants), 9
selsoviet
Selsoviet ( be, сельсавет, r=sieĺsaviet, tr. ''sieĺsaviet''; rus, сельсовет, p=ˈsʲelʲsɐˈvʲɛt, r=selsovet; uk, сільрада, silrada) is a shortened name for a rural council and for the area governed by such a cou ...
s, and 66 settlements. Also included within the raion were: 17
kolhoz
A kolkhoz ( rus, колхо́з, a=ru-kolkhoz.ogg, p=kɐlˈxos) was a form of collective farm in the Soviet Union. Kolkhozes existed along with state farms or sovkhoz., a contraction of советское хозяйство, soviet ownership or ...
y, and 3
sovhoz
A sovkhoz ( rus, совхо́з, p=sɐfˈxos, a=ru-sovkhoz.ogg, abbreviated from ''советское хозяйство'', "sovetskoye khozyaystvo (sovkhoz)"; ) was a form of state-owned farm in the Soviet Union.
It is usually contrasted with ...
y, 4 industrial organizations, 4 construction organizations, 2 railroad stations, 44 Meduchredzheniy, and 47 libraries.
An architectural monument in the raion was a palace (1887-1914-selo Zelyenoe).
In May 2014, due to the deteriorating situation in the Donetsk Oblast, the raion requested a referendum pertaining to the transfer of Dobropillia Raion into the
Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
Dnipropetrovsk Oblast ( uk, Дніпропетро́вська о́бласть, translit=Dnipropetrovska oblast), also referred to as Dnipropetrovshchyna ( uk, Дніпропетро́вщина), is an administrative divisions of Ukraine, obla ...
, where the situation was more stable. The then Dnipropetrovsk Governor
Ihor Kolomoisky announced that the oblast would be willing to do so assuming that is what the citizens want.
Settlements
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*Vodianske
*Volodymyrivka
*Virovka
*Hannivka
*Zolotyi Kolodiaz
*Krasnoiarske
*Kryvorizhia
*Novyi Donbas
*Novovodiane
*Novodonetske
*Novotoretske
*Novotroitske
*Novofedorivka
*Oktiabrske
*Rozy Liuksemburh
*Sviatohorivka
*Svitle
*Shevchenko
*Shylivka
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Demographics
As of the
2001 Ukrainian census
The Ukrainian Census of 2001 is to date the only census of the population of independent Ukraine. It was conducted by the State Statistics Committee of Ukraine on 5 December 2001, twelve years after the last Soviet Union census in 1989. :
[{{citation , url= http://donetskstat.gov.ua/census/census.php?ncp%3D11%26ncp1%3D6 , archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120207045443/http://donetskstat.gov.ua/census/census.php?ncp=11&ncp1=6 , url-status= dead , archive-date= 2012-02-07 , script-title=uk:Національний склад та рідна мова населення Донецької області. Розподіл постійного населення за найбільш численними національностями та рідною мовою по міськрадах та районах , language= Ukrainian ]
;Ethnicity
* Ukrainians: 89.4%
* Russians: 8.9%
See also
*
Administrative divisions of Donetsk Oblast Donetsk Oblast is subdivided into districts (''raions'') which are further subdivided into territorial communities (''hromadas'').
Current
On 18 July 2020, the number of districts was reduced to eight. This includes territories not under control o ...
References
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External links
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*{{in lang, uk}
Verkhovna Rada website- Administrative divisions of the Dobropillia Raion
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Former raions of Donetsk Oblast
1966 establishments in Ukraine
Ukrainian raions abolished during the 2020 administrative reform
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