Pavlivka, Volnovakha Raion, Donetsk Oblast

Village in eastern Ukraine

47°45′16″N 37°13′05″E / 47.75444°N 37.21806°E / 47.75444; 37.21806

Village in Ukraine

Pavlivka Павлівка
Village
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Coordinates: 47°45′16″N 37°13′05″E / 47.75444°N 37.21806°E / 47.75444; 37.21806
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Donetsk Oblast
Raion	Volnovakha Raion
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)

Pavlivka (Ukrainian: Павлівка; Russian: Павловка) is a village in the Volnovakha Raion of Donetsk Oblast in Ukraine. The population as of 2021 is 2,505 people, and the body of local self-government is the Vuhledar settlement hromada.

Geography

The village is located in western Donetsk Oblast, and is part of the Wild Fields that encompasses much of eastern and central Ukraine. The Kashlahach River runs through the village. The village is about 18 mi NW of the raion capital of Volnovakha, and 32 mi SW of the oblast capital of Donetsk. The village is a settlement on the T-0509 Highway, which runs in the western parts of the oblast.

History

Cossacks, mostly from Poltava, Chernihiv, and Kharkiv Governorates, established this village in the 1830s.

In 1897, the Russian Empire Census recorded a population of 3,137 in the village.^[1]

Until 1917, Pavlivka was a major administrative, industrial, and commercial center in Mariupol Uyezd, second only to Mariupol itself. The village housed a steam mill, a brick factory, and several leather processing companies, in addition to a hospital and three schools.

As a result of the German-Soviet War, the German military occupied the village for about two years. During the occupation, Soviet partisans were working in the village, but German forces discovered their operations, and the partisans were subsequently eliminated.^[2]

As of November 2022, during the Russo-Ukrainian War, the village was on the frontline, and changed hands multiple times.^[3]^[4]^[5]

Demographics

According to the 2001 Ukrainian Census, the distribution of the native languages of the population are as below:^[6]

Ukrainian – 85.51%
Russian – 13.97%
Belarusian – 0.32%
Moldovan (Romanian) – 0.16%
Romanian – 0.04%

References

^ [Населенные пункты Российской Империи с населением 500 и более человек, с указанием общей численности населения в них и числа жителей господствующих по первой переписи 1897 г. конфессий СПб. 1905. – IX + 270 + 120 с., (с. 1–247)]
^ Донецкая область в годы Великой отечественной войны. — Д.: Донбас. — 1982. — С. 281. (рос.)
^ Бурдейна, Олена (16 November 2022). "Окупанти закріплюються в Павлівці на Донеччині – карта". StopCor (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 17 November 2022.
^ Илья Абишев (15 October 2022). "Российские войска захватили Павловку ценой больших потерь. Зачем им это село?" [Russian troops captured Pavlivka at great cost. Why did they need the village?]. bbc.com. BBC News Русская служба. Retrieved 20 October 2022.
^ David Axe (21 November 2022). "The Village Of Pavlivka Is A 'Furnace' Burning Up Russian Marine Brigades". forbes.com. Forbes. Retrieved 7 December 2022. The ongoing battle for Pavlivka, 25 miles southwest of Donetsk, is a tragic microcosm of Russia's failing campaign. For three weeks, the Russian marine corps' 155th and 40th Naval Infantry Brigades and other forces have been trying, and failing, to pry the Ukrainian 72nd Mechanized Brigade from Pavlivka, which before the war had a population of 2,500.
^ "Офіційна сторінка Всеукраїнського перепису населення | Банк даних" [All-Ukrainian population census | Database]. ukrcensus.gov.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 20 November 2022.