Raions of Donetsk and Donetsk City Municipality

Proletarskyi District ( uk, Пролетарський район) is an urban district of the city of

Donetsk Donetsk ( , ; uk, Донецьк, translit=Donets'k ; russian: Донецк ), formerly known as Aleksandrovka, Yuzivka (or Hughesovka), Stalin and Stalino (see also: Names of European cities in different languages (C–D), cities' alternat ...

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 ...

. Created in 1937 as Budonivskyi District, in 1958 it was renamed into the Proletarskyi District. In 1980 some of its territories were transferred to another Budonivskyi District. "Proletarskyi" means "

proletarian The proletariat (; ) is the social class of wage-earners, those members of a society whose only possession of significant economic value is their labour power (their capacity to work). A member of such a class is a proletarian. Marxist philoso ...

External links

Proletarskyi District
at the Mayor of Donetsk website
Proletarskyi District
at the Uzovka website Urban districts of Donetsk {{Donetsk-geo-stub