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Young family in Donetsk. In 2013, the population of Donetsk Oblast was 4.43 million, which constituted 10% of the overall Ukrainian population, making it the most populous and most densely populated region of the country, except for the cities with special status (Kyiv and Sevastopol). Its large population is due to the presence of several big ...
The Luhansk and Donetsk Peoples Republics are located in the historical Donbas region of Eastern Ukraine. Since Ukraine's independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, Eastern and Western Ukraine typically have voted for different candidates in presidential elections. Viktor Yanukovych, a Donetsk native, was elected as President of Ukraine in 2010
Donetsk (UK: / d ɒ n ˈ j ɛ t s k / don-YETSK, [1] US: / d ə n-/ dən-; [2] [3] Ukrainian: Донецьк [doˈnɛtsʲk] ⓘ; Russian: Донецк [dɐˈnʲetsk] ⓘ), 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 capital of ...
The Donetsk Clan (Ukrainian: Донецький клан, romanized: Donetskyi klan; Russian: Донецкий клан, romanized: Donetsky klan), also called the Donetsk Mafia, [2] the Donetsk Family, [3] or simply "The Family", [3] was a group of Ukrainian oligarchs and members of the Ukrainian mafia active between the late Soviet period and the 2014 Revolution of Dignity, when the clan ...
The population of all Ukrainian oblasts and other regions was recorded in 2012. [1] Note that since the war in Donbas started in the spring of 2014, 1,5 million people from Donetsk Oblast and Luhansk Oblast have either fled to Russia or to other parts of Ukraine.
Ethnic Russians by region (Census 2001). Russia used the "protection" of ethnic Russians and Russian speakers in Ukraine as one of the pretexts for the invasion and occupation. [12] [13] Vast regions to the north of the Black Sea were sparsely populated and were known as the Wild Fields (as translated from Polish or Ukrainian).
When a son was born to a Cossack family, his parents presented him with an arrow, a bow, a cartridge, a bullet and a gun. All of these items were hung on the wall, over the boy's bed. At the age of three, the boy began to ride a horse.
Vasyl Pirko Settlement of Steppe Ukraine in XVI — XVIII century // Donetsk: Ukr. Center, 1998. - 124 p. Petro Lavriv. My land is the land of my parents. Donetsk, Ukrainian Cultural Center, Donetsk: Donetsk Regional Society of the Ukrainian Language named after T. G. Shevchenko, RVP "Swan". 1995. 64 p. Archived 2016-12-20 at the Wayback Machine