Sontsivka Explained

Sontsivka
Native Name:Сонцівка
Native Name Lang:uk
Settlement Type:Village
Pushpin Map:Ukraine Donetsk Oblast#Ukraine
Coordinates:48.0489°N 37.1906°W
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name:Ukraine
Subdivision Type1:Oblast
Subdivision Name1:Donetsk Oblast
Subdivision Type2:Raion
Subdivision Name2:Pokrovsk Raion
Subdivision Type3:Hromada
Subdivision Name3:Kurakhove urban hromada
Unit Pref:Metric
Population Total:626
Population As Of:2017
Population Density Km2:auto
Timezone:EET
Utc Offset:+2
Timezone Dst:EEST
Utc Offset Dst:+3

Sontsivka (Ukrainian: Сонцівка), known as Krasne (Ukrainian: Красне; Russian: Красное|Krasnoye) from 1927 to 2016, is a village in Pokrovsk Raion of Donetsk Oblast in Ukraine.

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]

Notable people

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Local history of Sontsivka . The History of Cities and Villages of the Ukrainian SSR. 19 July 2019. uk.
  2. Web site: Small home of the great Prokofiev. infodon.org.ua. 19 July 2019. ru.
  3. Web site: Верховна Рада України; Постанова від 19.05.2016 № 1377-VIII Про перейменування окремих населених пунктів та районів. zakon.rada.gov.ua. uk.
  4. http://database.ukrcensus.gov.ua/MULT/Database/Census/databasetree_uk.asp Розподіл населення за рідною мовою на ukrcensus.gov.ua