Petrivka ( uk, Петрівка; russian: Петровка, Petrovka), known as Petrivske ( uk, Петрівське, link=no; russian: Петровское, Petrovskoye, link=no) before 2016, 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 ...
(
district) in
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 ...
of eastern
Ukraine, at
SSW from the centre of
Donetsk city.
History
The village was founded in the late 18th century by migrants from
Kharkov Governorate.
Petrivske was taken under control of pro-Russian forces during the
War in Donbass, that started in 2014. It was renamed to ''Petrivka'' in 2016 as part of
decommunization in Ukraine
Decommunization in Ukraine started during and after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. With the success of the Revolution of Dignity in 2014, the Ukrainian government approved Ukrainian decommunization laws, laws that outlawed commun ...
.
Demographics
The settlement had 19 inhabitants in 2001; native language distribution 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. :
*
Ukrainian: 15.79%
*
Russian: 84.21%
References
Villages in Volnovakha Raion
Khlibodarivka rural hromada
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