Avdiivka (Avdiyivs’ka Mis’krada)
Avdiivka or Avdeevka (Авдіївка,, Авдеевка) is a city of regional significance in Ukraine's Donetsk Oblast. The city is in the center of the region, just north of the city of Donetsk. The large Avdiivka Coke Plant is located in Avdiivka.
Avdiivka is within the claimed boundaries of the separatist Donetsk People's Republic, and it has seen heavy fighting as part of the War in Donbas and the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. On 22 February 2023 Governor of Donetsk Oblast Pavlo Kyrylenko declared the city "almost completely destroyed."
In January 2022 the city's population was officially estimated as ; in January 2017, BBC News estimated that the population ranged between 16,000 and 22,000. On 3 August 2022 only 2,500 people, or 10% of the city's pre-war population, remained in Avdiivka.
The presence of nomadic people in the area of Avdiivka dates back to at least the 9th to 13th centuries, as evidenced by a stone sculpture (or baba) that was discovered in a mound.
Avdiivka is one of the oldest settlements in Donetsk region. The first settlement on the territory of the modern city was founded in the middle of the 18th century by people from the Kursk, Voronezh and Poltava provinces. In 1778, by order of the Novorossiysk governor, the newly established village became state property. It was named after the name of the first settler, Avdiivka.
According to census data for 1859, 2,299 people (1,180 males and 1,119 females) lived in the state village of Bakhmut District, Katerynoslav Province. There were 450 farmsteads, an Orthodox church and a post office.
As of 1886, 3,087 people lived in the former state village in the center of Avdiiv Volost. There were 555 farm households, an Orthodox church and a school, and 2 fairs were held a year.
In the mid-1880s, the Catherine Railway passed through the area where the city is now located and a railway station was built here.
According to the 1897 census, the number of residents decreased to 2,153 (1,282 males and 871 females), of which 2,057 were of the Orthodox faith.
In 1908, 5,475 people (2,736 males and 2,739 females) lived in the village and there were 865 farm households.
Avdiivka is within the claimed boundaries of the separatist Donetsk People's Republic, and it has seen heavy fighting as part of the War in Donbas and the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. On 22 February 2023 Governor of Donetsk Oblast Pavlo Kyrylenko declared the city "almost completely destroyed."
In January 2022 the city's population was officially estimated as ; in January 2017, BBC News estimated that the population ranged between 16,000 and 22,000. On 3 August 2022 only 2,500 people, or 10% of the city's pre-war population, remained in Avdiivka.
The presence of nomadic people in the area of Avdiivka dates back to at least the 9th to 13th centuries, as evidenced by a stone sculpture (or baba) that was discovered in a mound.
Avdiivka is one of the oldest settlements in Donetsk region. The first settlement on the territory of the modern city was founded in the middle of the 18th century by people from the Kursk, Voronezh and Poltava provinces. In 1778, by order of the Novorossiysk governor, the newly established village became state property. It was named after the name of the first settler, Avdiivka.
According to census data for 1859, 2,299 people (1,180 males and 1,119 females) lived in the state village of Bakhmut District, Katerynoslav Province. There were 450 farmsteads, an Orthodox church and a post office.
As of 1886, 3,087 people lived in the former state village in the center of Avdiiv Volost. There were 555 farm households, an Orthodox church and a school, and 2 fairs were held a year.
In the mid-1880s, the Catherine Railway passed through the area where the city is now located and a railway station was built here.
According to the 1897 census, the number of residents decreased to 2,153 (1,282 males and 871 females), of which 2,057 were of the Orthodox faith.
In 1908, 5,475 people (2,736 males and 2,739 females) lived in the village and there were 865 farm households.
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During the Middle Ages, Ukraine was the site of early Slavic expansion and the area later became a key centre of East Slavic culture under the state of Kievan Rus', which emerged in the 9th century. The state eventually disintegrated into rival regional powers and was ultimately destroyed by the Mongol invasions of the 13th century. The area was then contested, divided, and ruled by a variety of external powers for the next 600 years, including the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Austrian Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and the Tsardom of Russia. The Cossack Hetmanate emerged in central Ukraine in the 17th century, but was partitioned between Russia and Poland, and ultimately absorbed by the Russian Empire. Ukrainian nationalism developed, and following the Russian Revolution in 1917, the short-lived Ukrainian People's Republic was formed. The Bolsheviks consolidated control over much of the former empire and established the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, which became a constituent republic of the Soviet Union when it was formed in 1922. In the early 1930s, millions of Ukrainians died in the Holodomor, a man-made famine. During World War II, Ukraine was devastated by the German occupation.
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| UAH | Ukrainian hryvnia | â‚´ | 2 |
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| HU | Hungarian language |
| PL | Polish language |
| RU | Russian language |
| UK | Ukrainian language |