Mykilske (), formerly known as Volodarske from 1923 to 2016, and as Nikolske until 2024, is a

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, eastern

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. It is located in the industrial region of the

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. It was the administrative seat of Nikolske Raion until 2020; the settlement now belongs to

Mariupol Raion Mariupol Raion (; ) is a raion (district) of Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. It was created in July 2020 as part of the reform of administrative divisions of Ukraine. The center of the raion is the city of Mariupol. Population: The area of the raion h ...

. Population:

History

Its original name was Nikolske. After the

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, it was changed to Volodarske in 1923 after V. Volodarsky, a

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. On February 18, 2016, as part of decommunization laws, the settlement was returned to the founding name of Nikolske. The town was captured by Russia and annexed into the

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during the 2022

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, and the occupation authorities changed its name back to Volodarske on May 4, 2022.

Gallery

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Taras Shevchenko Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko (; ; 9 March 1814 – 10 March 1861) was a Ukrainian poet, writer, artist, public and political figure, folklorist, and ethnographer. He was a fellow of the Imperial Academy of Arts and a member of the Brotherhood o ...

monument

Notes

References

External links

Volodarske
at the

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