Khrestivka (Ukrainian: Хрестівка, Russian: Крестовка) or Kirovske (Ukrainian: Кіровське, Russian: Кировское) is a city of oblast significance in Donetsk Oblast (province) of Ukraine. Population: 27,441 (2021 est.)[1]; 28,291 (2013 est.)[2]; 30,910 (2001).
Khrestivka (Kirovske)
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| Khrestivka | |
 Flag Coat of arms of Khrestivka (Kirovske) Coat of arms | |
  Khrestivka (Kirovske)  Khrestivka (Kirovske) | |
| Coordinates: 48°08′47″N 38°21′38″E / 48.14639°N 38.36056°E | |
| Country |  Ukraine |
| Oblast | Donetsk Oblast |
| Founded | 1954 |
| City status | 1987 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Larysa Hrechushkina (interim) |
| Area | |
• Total | 725 km2 (280 sq mi) |
| Population (2021) | |
• Total | 27,441 |
| • Density | 3,882/km2 (10,050/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
| Postal code | 86300-86390 |
On 14 April 2014 pro-Russian activists captured Kirovske's town hall and declared that the city was part of the separatist Donetsk People's Republic.[3] Since then the city stayed under separatist control.[4]
In 2016 the city was renamed Khrestivka as part of decommunization in Ukraine. The city's name change process is temporarily suspended as it is not controlled by the government of Ukraine.
Demographics
As of the Ukrainian Census of 2001:[5]
- Ethnicity
- Ukrainians: 54.2%
- Russians: 41.6%
- Belarusians: 1.4%
- Azerbaijanis: 0.5%
- Tatars: 0.4%
- Language
- Russian: 82.39%
- Ukrainian: 16.90%
- Belarusian: 0.15%
- Armenian: 0.05%
References
- ^ Чисельність наявного населення України на 1 січня 2021 [Number of Present Population of Ukraine, as of January 1, 2021] (PDF) (in Ukrainian and English). Kyiv: State Statistics Service of Ukraine.
- ^ Чисельність наявного населення України [Actual population of Ukraine] (in Ukrainian). State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Archived from the original on 2014-02-02. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
- ^ (in Russian) As part of the People's Republic of Donetsk steel Zhdanovka and Kirov [map], Komsomolskaya Pravda in Ukraine (14 April 2014)
- ^ When Ukraine Is No Longer Ukraine, The Huffington Post (29 July 2015)
- ^ [1]
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