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Oblast An oblast (; ; Cyrillic (in most languages, including Russian and Ukrainian): , Bulgarian: ) is a type of administrative division of Belarus, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Ukraine, as well as the Soviet Union and the Kingdo ...

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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 ...

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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 c ...

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Horlivka Raion Horlivka Raion ( uk, Горлівський район, Horlivskyi raion, russian: Горловский район, Gorlovsky rayon) is a prospective raion (district) of Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. It was formally created in July 2020 as part of the ...

, leader_title = Mayor , leader_name = Larysa Hrechushkina (interim) , established_title = Founded , established_date = 1954 , established_title1 = City status , established_date1 = 1987 , area_total_km2 = 7,25 , population_as_of = 2022 , population_total = 27370 , population_density_km2 = 3882 , timezone = EET , utc_offset = +2 , timezone_DST = EEST , utc_offset_DST = +3 , postal_code_type = Postal code , postal_code = 86300-86390 , website = , footnotes = , coordinates = , settlement_type = City of regional significance Khrestivka ( uk, Хрестівка) or Kirovske (), also Kirovskoye (russian: Кировское) is a city of regional significance in

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 inva ...

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History

On 14 April 2014 pro-Russian activists captured Kirovske's town hall and declared that the city was part of the

separatist Separatism is the advocacy of cultural, ethnic, tribal, religious, racial, governmental or gender separation from the larger group. As with secession, separatism conventionally refers to full political separation. Groups simply seeking greate ...

Donetsk People's Republic The Donetsk People's Republic ( rus, Донецкая Народная Республика, Donetskaya Narodnaya Respublika, dɐˈnʲetskəjə nɐˈrodnəjə rʲɪˈspublʲɪkə; abbreviated as DPR or DNR, rus, ДНР) is a disputed en ...

(DPR). Since then the city has remained under DPR and Russian occupation. On 12 May 2016, the

Ukrainian parliament The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine ( uk, Верхо́вна Ра́да Украї́ни, translit=, Verkhovna Rada Ukrainy, translation=Supreme Council of Ukraine, Ukrainian abbreviation ''ВРУ''), often simply Verkhovna Rada or just Rada, is the ...

renamed the city Kirovske back to Khrestivka (its historic name) under decommunization laws. The DPR and Russian occupying forces do not recognize the name change.

Demographics

As of the Ukrainian Census of 2001: ;Ethnicity * Ukrainians: 54.2% * Russians: 41.6% * Belarusians: 1.4% * Azerbaijanis: 0.5% * Tatars: 0.4% ;Language: * Russian: 82.39% *

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: 16.90% * Belarusian: 0.15% * Armenian: 0.05%

References

Cities in Donetsk Oblast Populated places established in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Cities of regional significance in Ukraine Soviet toponymy in Ukraine City name changes in Ukraine Horlivka Raion {{Donetsk-geo-stub