Pokrovsk Raion

Pokrovsk Raion
Покровський район
Flag of Pokrovsk Raion
Coat of arms of Pokrovsk Raion
Coordinates: 48°15′34.8438″N 37°22′35.9832″E / 48.259678833°N 37.376662000°E / 48.259678833; 37.376662000
Country Ukraine
Oblast Donetsk Oblast
Admin. centerPokrovsk
Subdivisions14 hromadas
Government
 • MayorRuslan Trebushkin[citation needed]
Area
 • Total4,020 km2 (1,550 sq mi)
Population
 (2022)[1]
 • Total386,451
 • Density96/km2 (250/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+02:00 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+03:00 (EEST)
Postal index
853-XX
Area code380
WebsiteVerkhovna Rada website

Pokrovsk Raion (Ukrainian: Покровський район, romanizedPokrovskyi raion; Russian: Покровский район, romanizedPokrovsky rayon) is a raion (district) within Donetsk Oblast in eastern Ukraine. Its administrative center is Pokrovsk. It has an area of 1,316 square kilometres (508 sq mi) and its population is approximately 386,451 (2022 estimate).[1]

An architectural monument in the raion is the Petropavlovs'ka Church (1840 – village of Krasne), Church of the Birth of the Theotokos (Ukrainian: церква Різдва Богородиці) (1799 – urban-type settlement of Novoekonomichne), and the Voznesens'ka Church (1893 – village of Novotroyits'ke). The composer Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953) was born here.

  1. ^ a b 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.

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