Petrovskyi District

Petrovskyi District (Ukrainian: Петровський район) is an urban district of the city of Donetsk, under the control of the de facto Donetsk People's Republic, named after a Soviet political figure Grigoriy Petrovsky.

Petrovskyi District Петровський район
Urban district
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Donetsk Oblast
Area
• Total	62.4 km2 (24.1 sq mi)
Population 2001 Ukrainian Census
• Total	85,399
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)

Districts of Donetsk on the territory of the Donetsk City Municipality:

Budonivskyi District   Voroshylovskyi District   Kalininskyi District   Kyivskyi District   Kirovskyi District

Kuibyshevskyi District   Leninskyi District   Petrovskyi District   Proletarskyi District

It was created in 1937.

Places

• 
  Shakhtar Donetsk training grounds in Kirsha
• 
  Lenin's monument at the Victory Square, 2009
• 
  Memorial Stele at the Victory Square, 2009
• 
  Petrovsky's monument in front of the Palace of Cultures, 2009

External links

• Petrovsky Raion at the Mayor of Donetsk website
• Petrovsky Raion at the Uzovka website

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