Raions of Donetsk and Donetsk City Municipality

Proletarskyi District ( Ukrainian: Пролетарський район) is an urban district of the city of

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 ...

Ukraine Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the List of European countries by area, second-largest country in Europe after Russia, which Russia–Ukraine border, borders it to the east and northeast. Ukraine also borders Belarus to the nor ...

. Created in 1937 as Budonivskyi District, it was renamed the Proletarskyi District in 1958. In 1980, some of its territories were transferred to another Budonivskyi District. "Proletarskyi" means "

proletarian The proletariat (; ) is the social class of wage-earners, those members of a society whose possession of significant economic value is their labour power (their capacity to work). A member of such a class is a proletarian or a . Marxist philo ...

External links

Proletarskyi District
at the Mayor of Donetsk website
Proletarskyi District
at the Uzovka website Urban districts of Donetsk {{Donetsk-geo-stub