Sontsivka (Ukrainian: Сонцівка), known as Krasne (Ukrainian: Красне; Russian: Красное, romanized: Krasnoye) from 1927 to 2016, is a village in Pokrovsk Raion of Donetsk Oblast in Ukraine.
Sontsivka
Сонцівка | |
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  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 |
| Population (2017) | |
| • Total | 626 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
History edit
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 edit
Native language as of the Ukrainian Census of 2001:[4]
Notable people edit
- Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953), Russian composer.
References edit
- ^ a b "Local history of Sontsivka". The History of Cities and Villages of the Ukrainian SSR (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 19 July 2019.
- ^ "Small home of the great Prokofiev". infodon.org.ua (in Russian). 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 Ukrainian).
- ^ Розподіл населення за рідною мовою на ukrcensus.gov.ua Archived 31 July 2014 at the Wayback Machine