Katerynivka, Donetsk Oblast
Katerynivka
Катеринівка | |
|---|---|
  Katerynivka  Katerynivka | |
| Coordinates: 47°52′31″N 37°20′32″E / 47.87528°N 37.34222°E | |
| Country | Ukraine |
| Oblast |  Donetsk Oblast |
| Raoin | Pokrovsk |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Melyus Volodymyr Ilyich |
| Elevation | 135 m (443 ft) |
| Population (2001) | |
| • Total | 778 |
| Area code | +380 6278 |
Katerynivka is a Ukrainian village in the Pokrovsk Raion of the Donetsk Oblast.
Geography[edit]
It is located on the left bank of the Sukhi Yaly. The distance to the district center is about 16 km, and it passes by a local highway.
History[edit]
The remains of two Paleolithic settlements have been discovered near the village, which was established in 1700.[1]
During the Holodomor, the village was blacklisted by the government of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, which blockaded Kateryniv, causing mass starvation.[2]
Out of the 270 residents that fought in World War II, 187 died on the Eastern Front. 143 of them received posthumous honours and a monument to the fallen was erected in 1968.[1]
Economy[edit]
The village has a primarily agricultural economy, centred on the cultivation of grain and the rearing of cattle. Its central estate is a collective farm named after. I. V. Michurin, which holds two cattle farms and two grain farms, spread over 3850 hectares of agricultural land.[1]
The village also has a primary school, a post office and a shopping center.[1]
Demographics[edit]
According to the 2001 census, the population of the village was 778 people, of whom 90.1% stated that their mother tongue was Ukrainian, 9.38% - Russian, and 0.26% - Belarusian.[3]
Famous people[edit]
- Foma Kozhyn (d. 1921) - commander of the machine-gun regiment in the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine
- Yakov Maskalevsky (d. 1922) - insurgent commander during the Ukrainian War of Independence
- Vasiliy Zhuravlyov (1913-2001) - officer in the Soviet Army during World War II
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d "Катериновка". История Городов и Сел (in Russian). 2010. Archived from the original on 13 August 2010.
- ^ Papakin, George (27 November 2010). ""Чорні дошки" Голодомору - економічний метод знищення громадян УРСР (СПИСОК)" ["Blacklists" of the Holodomor - an economic method of destroying the citizens of the Ukrainian SSR (LIST)]. Istorychna Pravda (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 10 December 2012. Retrieved 18 November 2022.
- ^ "Розподіл населення за рідною мовою, Донецька область" [Population distribution by native language, Donetsk region]. Ukrainian Census (in Ukrainian). 2001. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 18 November 2022.