Donetsk Raion
Donetsk Raion (; ) is a prospective raion (district) of Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. It was formally created in July 2020 as part of the reform of administrative divisions of Ukraine. The center of the raion is in the city of Donetsk. Population: M ...
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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 ...
,
Ukraine
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; residence of
Ilovaisk urban hromada
Ilovaisk urban hromada () is a hromada of Ukraine, located in Donetsk Raion, Donetsk Oblast. Its administrative center is the city Ilovaisk.
The hromada contains 22 settlements, 1 city (Ilovaisk), 13 villages:
And 8 rural-type settlements: Kut ...
. The city is ''de facto'' annexed by Russia and administered by the
Donetsk People's Republic
The Donetsk People's Republic (DPR; , ) is Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine, occupied territory in Ukraine that the Russian Federation has claimed to annex and declared as a Republics of Russia, republic of Russia, comprising parts o ...
.
The city is known as a major regional railroad hub. It was also the site of a
battle
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in the
War in Donbas
The war in Donbas, or the Donbas war, was a phase of the Russo-Ukrainian War in the eastern Donbas region of Ukraine. The war Timeline of the war in Donbas (2014), began in April 2014, when Russian separatist forces in Ukraine, Russian para ...
. The city has a population of , 17,620 (2001).
Battle of Ilovaisk
Starting in mid-April 2014, Russian paramilitaries captured several towns in Donetsk Oblast, including Ilovaisk. On 19 August 2014, Ukrainian forces reportedly secured the
city centre
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from the Russia-backed militants; fighting for control of other parts of the town continued. The next morning they claimed they had control over one half of the town, with the town divided by a railroad line. On 21 August, the
Ukrainian Armed Forces
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claimed that heavy fighting continued "in some districts of Ilovaisk", while the Russia-backed forces claimed they had repelled the Ukrainian military and surrounded a contingent of Ukrainian troops. Fighting for control of the town continued over the next days. The Russian Armed Forces retook the city as of 1 September 2014.
Demographics
Ethnic composition according to the
2001 Ukrainian census
The 2001 Ukrainian census 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 Census of 2001:
Notable people
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Stanislav Hurenko
Stanislav Ivanovych Hurenko (; ; 30 May 1936 – 14 April 2013) was a Soviet and Ukrainian politician. He was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Biography
Mikhail Gorbachev brought in his ally Hurenko in to replace Vladimi ...
(1936-2013), Ukrainian politician
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Mikhail Tolstykh
Mikhail Sergeyevich Tolstykh (; ; 19 July 1980 – 8 February 2017), better known by his ''nom de guerre'' Givi (Гиви), was a Ukrainian separatist officer wanted for war crimes. He was mainly known as the commander of the collaborationis ...
(1980-2017), Ukrainian separatist and wanted war criminal