Dobropillia (, ; ) is a city in

Pokrovsk Raion Pokrovsk Raion (; ) is a raion (district) within Donetsk Oblast in eastern Ukraine. Its administrative center is Pokrovsk. It has an area of and its population is approximately An architectural monument in the raion is the Petropavlovs'ka Chu ...

Donetsk Oblast Donetsk Oblast, also referred to as Donechchyna (, ), is an Oblasts of Ukraine, oblast in eastern Ukraine. It is Ukraine's most populous province, with around 4.1 million residents. Its capital city, administrative centre is Donetsk, though d ...

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. Prior to 2020, it was a city of oblast significance and served as the administrative center of the former Dobropillia Raion, though it did not belong to the raion. It is located from

Donetsk Donetsk ( , ; ; ), formerly known as Aleksandrovka, Yuzivka (or Hughesovka), Stalin, and Stalino, is an industrial city in eastern Ukraine located on the Kalmius River in Donetsk Oblast, which is currently occupied by Russia as the capita ...

, the administrative center of the oblast. In 2022, 28 thousand people lived in Dobropillia, in 2024 - 26,700.

History

A local newspaper is published here since February 1935. During the

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, the settlement was occupied by Axis troops. City since 1953. In 1970, the population of the city was 30 thousand people, the basis of the economy was coal mining. Dobropillia was one of the first towns shelled by Russia using "Grad" MLRS on 13 June 2014, with one civilian killed. On the night of 7 March 2025, the Russian army attacked a residential district between Shevchenko and Luhanska streets with ballistic missiles. A double-tap attack with cluster munitions happened shortly after the first one with 11 killed and 30 wounded initially confirmed.

Demographics

As of the Ukrainian Census of 2001: ;Ethnicity * Ukrainians: 71.3% * Russians: 25.9% * Belarusians: 1.1% * Tatars: 0.4% * Greeks: 0.2% ;Language: *

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: 61.0% * Ukrainian: 38.5% * Belarusian: 0.1%

Notable people

* Art Bezrukavenko (born 1996), content creator and social media personality

References

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