Starohnativka

Starohnativka Старогнатівка
Village
Coat of arms
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Coordinates: 47°32′28″N 37°46′48″E
Country	Ukraine
Province	Donetsk Oblast
District	Volnovakha Raion
Founded	1782
Area
• Total	8.4 km^2 (3.2 sq mi)
Elevation	99 m (325 ft)
Population  (2001 census)[1]
• Total	2,031
• Density	240/km^2 (630/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code	87110
Area code	+380 6279

Starohnativka (Ukrainian: Старогнатівка; Urum: Ґӱрджи; Russian: Старогнатовка) is a village in Volnovakha Raion (district) in Donetsk Oblast of eastern Ukraine, 65.9 km south from the centre of Donetsk city.

History

Starohnativka was founded in 1782 by Georgians and Vlachs from Crimea. In the Soviet Union, it was assigned to Telmanove Raion, Donetsk Oblast in the Ukrainian SSR.[2]

In 2014, after the beginning of the war in Donbas, Russia-backed militants took over most of Telmanove Raion, leaving Starohnativka and a few other settlements in a strip of government-controlled land west of the Kalmius river, isolated from the rest of the raion. To facilitate administration, the Ukrainian government transferred that piece of land, including Starohnativka, to Volnovakha Raion in December 2014.[3] On 10 August 2015, Ukraine accused the pro-Russian Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) rebel group of carrying out a sustained attack on Starohnativka and violating the ceasefire with the heaviest shelling in six months. The DPR denied that any such attack had taken place.[4][5]

Demographics

Native language as of the 2001 Ukrainian census:[1]

• Ukrainian 89.48%
• Russian 6.29%
• Greek 0.05%

References

1. "Офіційна сторінка Всеукраїнського перепису населення | Банк даних" [All-Ukrainian population census | Database]. ukrcensus.gov.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 23 August 2023.
2. "Старогнатівка, Тельманівський район, Донецька область". Історія міст і сіл Української РСР (in Ukrainian).
3. "Про зміни в адміністративно-територіальному устрої Донецької області, зміну і встановлення меж міста Маріуполь, Волноваського, Новоазовського та Тельманівського районів Донецької області". Офіційний вебпортал парламенту України (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 25 December 2023.
4. Jack Losh, Ukraine's Mystery Battle: Hunting for Truths Across an Elastic Border, Vice News, 17 August 2015
5. "Ukraine reports heaviest shelling by eastern rebels since February". Reuters. 10 August 2015. Archived from the original on 4 December 2015.

External links

Media related to Starohnativka at Wikimedia Commons