Back Donetsk-oblast AF مقاطعة دونيتسك Arabic Óblast de Donetsk AST UkrainaDonetskWinka AVK Donetsk vilayəti AZ دونتسک اوبلاستی AZB Донецк өлкәһе BA Данецкая вобласць BE Данецкая вобласьць BE-X-OLD Донецка област Bulgarian
Donetsk Oblast
Донецька область | |
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| Donetska oblast[1] | |
 Coat of arms | |
| Nickname: Донеччина (Donechchyna) | |
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| Coordinates: 48°08′N 37°44′E / 48.14°N 37.74°E | |
| Country |  Ukraine |
| Established | 3 June 1938 |
| Administrative center |
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| Government | |
| • Governor | Vadym Filashkin[2][a] |
| • Oblast council | 150 seats |
| Area | |
• Total | 26,517 km2 (10,238 sq mi) |
| • Rank | Ranked 11th |
| Population (1 January 2022)[3] | |
• Total |  4,059,372 |
| • Rank | Ranked 1st |
| GDP | |
| • Total | ₴ 283 billion (€7.3 billion) |
| • Per capita | ₴ 69,446 (€1,800) |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
| Postal code | 83000–87999 |
| Area code | +380-62 |
| ISO 3166 code | UA-14 |
| Vehicle registration | АН |
| Raions | 8 |
| Cities (total) | 52 |
| • Regional cities | 28 |
| Urban-type settlements | 131 |
| Villages | 1124 |
| HDI (2022) | 0.741[5] high |
| FIPS 10-4 | UP05 |
| Website | dn |
Donetsk Oblast,[b] also referred to as Donechchyna (Ukrainian: Донеччина, IPA: [doˈnɛtʃːɪnɐ]), is an oblast in eastern Ukraine. It is Ukraine's most populous province, with around 4.1 million residents. Its administrative centre is Donetsk, though due to the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War, the regional administration was moved to Kramatorsk.[6] Historically, the region has been an important part of the Donbas region. From its creation in 1938 until November 1961, it bore the name Stalino Oblast, in honour of Joseph Stalin. As part of the de-Stalinization process, it was renamed after the Donets river, the main artery of Eastern Ukraine. Its population is estimated at 4,100,280 (2021 est.).[7]
The oblast is known for its urban sprawl of Donetsk–Makiivka and Horlivka–Yenakiieve and it is often associated with the coal mining industry.
In 2014, parts of the oblast, including Donetsk, came under the control of Russian-backed separatists who declared the Donetsk People's Republic, leading to a war against government forces; the de facto administrative center was subsequently moved to Mariupol and then Kramatorsk.[8] During the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the oblast again became the site of heavy fighting, and Russia later declared the annexation of the entirety of the oblast as well as three other regions, though the annexation remains internationally unrecognized. About three-fifths of the oblast is under Russian military occupation.[9]
- ^ Syvak, Nina; Ponomarenko, Valerii; Khodzinska, Olha; Lakeichuk, Iryna (2011). Veklych, Lesia (ed.). Toponymic Guidelines for Map and Other Editors for International Use (PDF) (Report). scientific consultant Iryna Rudenko; reviewed by Nataliia Kizilowa; translated by Olha Khodzinska. Kyiv: DerzhHeoKadastr and Kartographia. p. 20. ISBN 978-966-475-839-7. Archived (PDF) from the original on 25 January 2021. Retrieved 6 October 2020 – via United Nations Statistics Division.
- ^ "Zelensky appoints new governors of Donetsk, Rivne oblasts". The Kyiv Independent. 28 December 2023. Archived from the original on 20 August 2024. Retrieved 13 February 2024.
- ^ Kalatur, Anastasia (22 April 2022). "Donetsk Region: Almost three quarters of the population left – regional head". Pravda. Ukrainia Pravda. Retrieved 20 February 2023.
Almost three quarters of the population have left the Ukrainian-controlled territory of Donetsk Region – currently there are about 430 thousand people left. – Head of the Donetsk Regional State Administration, Pavlo Kyrylenko, during the joint 24/7 national news broadcast, quoted by Ukraine's Centre for Strategic Communications and Information Security.
- ^ "Валовии регіональнии продукт". Archived from the original on 4 August 2023. Retrieved 5 October 2023.
- ^ "Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab". hdi.globaldatalab.org.
- ^ Kikhtenko to move Donetsk administration to Kramatorsk and to leave power structures in Mariupol Archived 19 October 2017 at the Wayback Machine Mirror Weekly, mw.ua
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Kikhtenko to move Donetsk administration to Kramatorsk and to leave power structures in Mariupol". Dzerkalo Tyzhnia (in Russian). Archived from the original on 19 October 2017. Retrieved 3 November 2014.
- ^ Khrebet, Alexander (19 April 2024). "'No region in Ukraine endures hell like Donetsk Oblast,' governor says of Russia's war". The Kyiv Independent. Retrieved 23 July 2024.
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