Jump to navigation Jump to search “Stalino” redirects here. This article is about the city in eastern Ukraine. Donetsk was founded in 1869 as a workers settlement Yuzovka around the metallurgical factory of Welshman John Hughes. The settlement was established in lands of Yevdokim Shydlovsky who received them ukraine dating traditions destruction of the Zaporizhian Sich in 1775.
The population of the metropolitan area is from 2004. According to the 2001 Ukrainian Census, Donetsk was the fifth-largest city in Ukraine. The original settlement in the south of the European part of the Russian Empire was first mentioned as Aleksandrovka in 1779, under the Russian Empress Catherine the Great. Since April 2014, Donetsk and its surrounding areas have been one of the major sites of fighting in the ongoing Donbass War, as pro-Russian separatist forces have battled against Ukrainian military forces for control of the city and surrounding areas. On June 27, 2014, the unrecognized nation of South Ossetia officially recognized the Donetsk People’s Republic’s independence from Ukraine. As of May 8, 2018, the Donetsk People’s Republic has full control of the city, with Ukrainian and DPR forces still engaging in combat outside of the city. A market on the main street of Novyi Svet section of Yuzovka.
The city was founded in 1869 when the Welsh businessman John Hughes built a steel plant and several coal mines at Aleksandrovka, in the south of European part of Russia. In its early period, it received immigrants from Wales, especially the town of Merthyr Tydfil. A Monument for the Liberators of Donbass, dedicated to the soldier liberating Donbass from the Nazis during World War II. When the Russian Civil War broke out, on 12 February 1918 Yuzovka was part of the Donets-Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic.
The Republic was disbanded at the 2nd All-Ukrainian Congress of Soviets on 20 March 1918 when the independence of the Soviet Ukraine was announced. In 1924, under the Soviet rule, the city’s name was changed to Stalin. In that year, the city’s population totaled 63,708, and in the next year, 80,085. 31 the city’s name was changed to Stalino. The city did not have a drinking water system until 1931, when a 55. A German map of the city in 1943, note that all the streets have been given German names. At the beginning of World War II, the population of Stalino consisted of 507,000, and after the war, only 175,000.
The German invasion during World War II almost completely destroyed the city, which was mostly rebuilt on a large scale at the war’s end. In 1965, the Donetsk Academy of Sciences was established as part of the Academy of Science of the Ukrainian SSR. After experiencing a tough time in the 1990s, when it was the center of gang wars for control over industrial enterprises, Donetsk has modernised quickly in recent years, largely under the influence of big companies. 2008 Ukraine coal mine collapse, the 2007 Zasyadko mine disaster, and the 2015 Zasyadko mine disaster.
