Sontsivka

Sontsivka

Сонцівка
Sontsivka Сонцівка
Village
	Flag Coat of arms
	Sontsivka Sontsivka
	Coordinates: 48°2′56″N 37°11′26″E / 48.04889°N 37.19056°E
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Donetsk Oblast
Raion	Pokrovsk Raion
Hromada	Kurakhove urban hromada
Population (2017)
• Total	626
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)

Sontsivka (Ukrainian: Сонцівка), known as Krasne (Ukrainian: Красне; ‹See Tfd›Russian: Красное, romanized: Krasnoye) from 1927 to 2016, is a village in Pokrovsk Raion of Donetsk Oblast in Ukraine. It is one of the last major settlements in the Donbass that is not under Russian control.

History

The village,^[1] founded in 1785, was initially in the Bakhmutsky Uyezd of the Yekaterinoslav Governorate in the Russian Empire and was named after its owner Dmitri Dmitrievich Sontsov. In the Soviet Union, it was renamed Krasne in 1927^[2] and kept the name until it was renamed Sontsivka in 2016 as part of decommunization in Ukraine.^[3] In 1967, a museum was opened in Sontsivka in memory of the native composer Prokofiev and in 1968, the local music school was named after him.^[1]

Demographics

Native language as of the Ukrainian Census of 2001:^[4]

Ukrainian 92.45%
Russian 7.42%

Notable people

Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953), Russian composer.

References

^ ^1.0 ^1.1 "Local history of Sontsivka". The History of Cities and Villages of the Ukrainian SSR (in українська). Retrieved 19 July 2019.
^ "Small home of the great Prokofiev". infodon.org.ua (in русский). Retrieved 19 July 2019.
^ "Верховна Рада України; Постанова від 19.05.2016 № 1377-VIII Про перейменування окремих населених пунктів та районів". zakon.rada.gov.ua (in українська).
^ Розподіл населення за рідною мовою на ukrcensus.gov.ua Archived 31 July 2014 at the Wayback Machine

[ukrssr-1] 1.0 ^1.1 "Local history of Sontsivka". The History of Cities and Villages of the Ukrainian SSR (in українська). Retrieved 19 July 2019.

[2] "Small home of the great Prokofiev". infodon.org.ua (in русский). Retrieved 19 July 2019.

[3] "Верховна Рада України; Постанова від 19.05.2016 № 1377-VIII Про перейменування окремих населених пунктів та районів". zakon.rada.gov.ua (in українська).

[4] Розподіл населення за рідною мовою на ukrcensus.gov.ua Archived 31 July 2014 at the Wayback Machine

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