Novohrodivka

City in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine

Novohrodivka Новогродівка
City

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48°12′00″N 37°20′22″E / 48.20000°N 37.33944°E / 48.20000; 37.33944
Country	Ukraine
Province	Donetsk Oblast
District	Pokrovsk Raion
Hromada	Novohrodivka urban hromada
Founded	1939
Population (2022)
• Total	14,037
Climate	Dfb

Novohrodivka (Ukrainian: Новогродівка, IPA: [no.woˈɦrɔ.d⁽ʲ⁾iu̯.kɐ]; Russian: Новогродовка, romanized: Novogrodovka) is a city in Pokrovsk Raion, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. It serves as the administrative center of Novohrodivka urban hromada. It is located 45 kilometres (28 mi) from Donetsk and seven kilometres (4.3 mi) from Selydove.^[1] Population: 14,037 (2022 estimate);^[2] 17,473 (2001).^[1]

History

The settlement was founded in 1939 as Hrodivka with the construction of a coal mine.^[1] The settlement was occupied by Nazi Germany from October 1941 to September 1943 during World War II.^[1]

Novohrodivka received city status and its modern name in 1958.^[1]

In 2020, Novohrodivka became part of Pokrovsk Raion and the administrative center of the newly formed Novohrodivka urban hromada.^[1]

Russian invasion of Ukraine

The city has repeatedly come under Russian strikes during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, causing damage to infrastructure and civilian casualties.^[3]^[4]^[5] In August 2024, amidst recent Russian advances in the area near Novohrodivka, the Donetsk Oblast Military Administration ordered the evacuation of 744 children and their families from the city.^[6]

Demographics

As of the 2001 Ukrainian census:^[7]^[8]

Ethnicity

Ukrainians: 61.8%
Russians: 33.9%
Belarusians: 1.6%
Tatars: 0.7%

Native language

Russian: 69.20%
Ukrainian: 29.84%
Belarusian: 0.11%
Armenian: 0.03%
Moldovan: 0.03%
Polish: 0.02%

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Biletska, L.M. (2021). Новогродівка [Novohrodivka]. Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 10 August 2024.
^ Чисельність наявного населення України на 1 січня 2022 [Number of Present Population of Ukraine, as of January 1, 2022] (PDF) (in Ukrainian and English). Kyiv: State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 July 2022.
^ "Russian attacks kill two, wound 26 in Ukraine". Reuters. 4 July 2024. Nine others, including four children, were wounded in a drone attack and shelling in the town of Novohrodivka, in the frontline Donetsk region, governor Vadym Filashkin said.
^ Fornusek, Martin (6 December 2023). "Update: 4th victim of Russian missile strike on Novohrodivka identified". Kyiv Independent.
^ "Russian missile strikes kill two, wound 10 in east Ukraine, Kyiv says". Reuters. 30 November 2023.
^ "Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 892". Al Jazeera. 5 August 2024.
^ Національний склад та рідна мова населення Донецької області. Розподіл постійного населення за найбільш численними національностями та рідною мовою по міськрадах та районах (in Ukrainian), archived from the original on 7 February 2012
^ "Банк даних — перепис 2001". Archived from the original on 8 February 2023. Retrieved 11 August 2024.