Pavlivka ( uk, Павлівка; russian: link=no, Павловка) is a village in

Volnovakha Raion Volnovakha Raion ( uk, Волноваський район, ) is one of the 18 administrative raions (a ''district'') of Donetsk Oblast, located in southeastern Ukraine. The administrative center of the district is located in the city of Volnov ...

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 ...

, Ukraine. The population as of 2021 is 2,505 people, and the body of local self-government is the Vuhledar settlement hromada.

Geography

The village is located in western Donetsk Oblast, and is part of the Wild Fields that encompasses much of eastern and central Ukraine. The Kashlahach River runs through the village. The village is about 18 mi NW of the raion capital of

Volnovakha Volnovakha ( uk, Волнова́ха, ; russian: Волнова́ха) is a town in Ukraine. It served as the administrative center of Volnovakha Raion, one of the 18 districts of the Donetsk Oblast. Before the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, ...

, and 32 mi SW of the oblast capital of Donetsk. The village is a settlement on the T-0509 Highway, which runs in the western parts of the oblast.

History

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, mostly from

Poltava Poltava (, ; uk, Полтава ) is a city located on the Vorskla River in central Ukraine. It is the capital city of the Poltava Oblast (province) and of the surrounding Poltava Raion (district) of the oblast. Poltava is administratively ...

, Chernihiv, and Kharkiv Governorates, established this village in the 1830s. In 1897, the

Russian Empire Census The first general census of the population of the Russian Empire in 1897 ( pre-reform Russian: ) was the first and only nation-wide census performed in the Russian Empire (the Grand Duchy of Finland was excluded). It recorded demographic data as ...

recorded a population of 3,137 in the village. Until 1917, Pavlivka was a major administrative, industrial, and commercial center in

Mariupol Uyezd The Mariupol uezd (; uk, Маріупольський повіт, Mariupol's'kyi povit) was one of the subdivisions of the Yekaterinoslav Governorate of the Russian Empire. It was situated in the southeastern part of the governorate. Its adminis ...

, second only to Mariupol itself. The village housed a

steam mill A steam mill is a type of grinding mill using a stationary steam engine to power its mechanism. * And did those feet in ancient time, Albion Flour Mills, first steam mill in London from around 1790 * Aurora Steam Grist Mill, a historic grist ...

, a

brick factory A brickworks, also known as a brick factory, is a factory for the manufacturing of bricks, from clay or shale. Usually a brickworks is located on a clay bedrock (the most common material from which bricks are made), often with a quarry for cl ...

, and several leather processing companies, in addition to a hospital and three schools. As a result of the German-Soviet War, the German military occupied the village for about two years. During the occupation, Soviet partisans were working in the village, but German forces discovered their operations, and the partisans were subsequently eliminated. After the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Ukraine's 53rd Mechanized Brigade withdrew from the village by mid-March and recaptured it on 21 June 2022. As of November 2022, during the Russo-Ukrainian War, the village was on the frontline, and changed hands multiple times.

Demographics

According to 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.

, the distribution of the native languages of the population are as below: *

Ukrainian Ukrainian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Ukraine * Something relating to Ukrainians, an East Slavic people from Eastern Europe * Something relating to demographics of Ukraine in terms of demography and population of Ukraine * So ...

85.51% * Russian13.97% *

Belarusian Belarusian may refer to: * Something of, or related to Belarus * Belarusians, people from Belarus, or of Belarusian descent * A citizen of Belarus, see Demographics of Belarus * Belarusian language * Belarusian culture * Belarusian cuisine * Byelor ...

0.32% * Moldovan (

Romanian Romanian may refer to: *anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Romania **Romanians, an ethnic group **Romanian language, a Romance language ***Romanian dialects, variants of the Romanian language **Romanian cuisine, traditional ...

)0.16% *

0.04%

References

{{Volnovakha Raion Villages in Volnovakha Raion Vuhledar urban hromada