The Krasnoarmiisk Raion is a raion

Raion

A raion is a type of administrative unit of several post-Soviet countries. The term, which is from French rayon 'honeycomb, department,' describes both a type of a subnational entity and a division of a city, and is commonly translated in English as "district"...

 (district

District

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) within Donetsk Oblast

Donetsk Oblast

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 in eastern Ukraine

Ukraine

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. Its administrative center

Capital City

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 is Krasnoarmiysk

Krasnoarmiysk

Krasnoarmiysk is a city in Donetsk Oblast , Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Krasnoarmiysky Raion. In 2001, its population is 69,200....

, but the city itself is located within the raion. Its population is 37,384 and its area is 1,316 square kilometres.

Within the Dobropilskyi Raion there are: 3 urban-type settlement

Urban-type settlement

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s (Hrodivka, Novoekonomichne, Udachne), 13 selsovets, and 99 settlements. Also included within the raion are: 22 kolkhoz

Kolkhoz

A kolkhoz , plural kolkhozy, was a form of collective farming in the Soviet Union that existed along with state farms . The word is a contraction of коллекти́вное хозя́йство, or "collective farm", while sovkhoz is a contraction of советское хозяйство...

y, 7 sovhozy, 5 industrial organizations, 3 hospitals, 36 schools, and 31 libraries.

An architectural monument in the raion is the Petropavlovs'ka Church (1840 - village of Krasne), Church of the Birth of the Theotokos

Theotokos

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  (1799 - urban-type settlement of Novoekonomichne), and the Voznesens'ka Church (1893 - village of Novotroyits'ke). The composer Sergei Prokofiev

Sergei Prokofiev

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 (1891-1953) was born here.

Demographics

Forty-four different nationalities live in the Krasnoarmiysky Raion. They include: Ukrainians

Ukrainians

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, Russians

Russians

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, Belarusians

Belarusians

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, Germans

Germans

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, Azerbaijanis, Crimean Tatars

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, Moldavians

Moldovans

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, Armenians

Armenians

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, Greeks

Greeks

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, and others. Eighty percent of the population is composed of Ukrainians.