Dobropillia
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History
A local newspaper is published here since February 1935.[2]
During the Second World War, the settlement was occupied by Axis troops. City since 1953. In 1970, the population of the city was 30 thousand people, the basis of the economy was coal mining.[3][4]
Dobropillia was one of the first towns shelled by Russia using "Grad" MLRS on 13 June 2014, with one civilian killed.[5]
On the night of 7 March 2025, the Russian army attacked a residential district between Shevchenko and Luhanska streets with ballistic missiles. A double-tap attack with cluster munitions happened shortly after the first one with 11 killed and 30 wounded initially confirmed.[6]
Demographics
As of the Ukrainian Census of 2001:[7]
- Ethnicity
- Ukrainians: 71.3%
- Russians: 25.9%
- Belarusians: 1.1%
- Tatars: 0.4%
- Greeks: 0.2%
- Language
- Russian: 61.0%
- Ukrainian: 38.5%
- Belarusian: 0.1%
Notable people
- Art Bezrukavenko (born 1996), content creator and social media personality[8]
References
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- ↑ № 2703. Путь победы // Летопись периодических и продолжающихся изданий СССР 1986 - 1990. Часть 2. Газеты. М., "Книжная палата", 1994. стр.354
- ↑ Доброполье // Большая Советская Энциклопедия. / под ред. А. М. Прохорова. 3-е изд. том 8. М., «Советская энциклопедия», 1972. стр.376
- ↑ Доброполье // Советский энциклопедический словарь. редколл., гл. ред. А. М. Прохоров. 4-е изд. М., «Советская энциклопедия», 1986. стр.402
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