Shakhtarske ( ), formerly known as Pershotravensk ( ) between 1960 and 2024, is a

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and

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Synelnykove Raion Synelnykove Raion () is a Raions of Ukraine, raion (district) of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, southeastern-central Ukraine. Its administrative centre is located at Synelnykove. Population: On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukrai ...

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(

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) of

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. It has a population of

History

The city has its origins in 1954 as a mining village named Shakhtarske that grew up around the mines that were built in the area, in

Pavlohrad Raion Pavlohrad Raion () is a raion (district) of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, southeastern-central Ukraine. Its administrative centre is located at the city of Pavlohrad. Population: On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the nu ...

. On 6 May 1960 Shakhtarske was given the status of an urban-type settlement and renamed ''Pershotravensk''. It received city status on 26 February 1966. Pershotravensk was also incorporated as a city of oblast significance, meaning that it was subordinated directly to Dnipropetrovsk Oblast instead of to Pavlohrad Raion within the oblast. On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast to seven, the city of Pershotravensk was merged into

. In April 2023,

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signed the law " On the Condemnation and Prohibition of Propaganda of Russian Imperial Policy in Ukraine and the Decolonization of Toponymy", which mandated Pershotravensk's name to be changed, because it commemorated the Communist

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which is celebrated on 1 May (Pershe Travnia in Ukrainian). According to the law, this renaming had to take place before 27 January 2024. On April 3, the in the

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stated their support for renaming the city back to its original name of Shakhtarske. On 19 September 2024, the Verkhovna Rada voted to rename Pershotravensk to Shakhtarske.

Demographics

Ethnic groups

Distribution of the population by ethnicity according to the 2001 census:

Population development

Notable people

* Oleksandr Kubrakov (born 1982), Ukrainian economist and politician * Yaroslav Rakitskyi (born 1989), Ukrainian footballer * Vitaliy Vitsenets (born 1990), Ukrainian footballer * Artur Zapadnya (born 1990), Ukrainian footballer

References

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