Shakhtarske, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast

"Pershotravensk" redirects here. For the town in Zhytomyr Oblast formerly known as Pershotravensk, see Portselianove.

Shakhtarske
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Coordinates: 48°20′51″N 36°24′06″E
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
Raion	Synelnykove Raion
Hromada	Shakhtarske urban hromada
Established	1954
City status	1966
Elevation	132 m (433 ft)
Population  (2022)
• Total	27,099
Postal code	52800—52899
Area code	+380-5633

Shakhtarske (Ukrainian: Шахтарське), formerly known as Pershotravensk (Ukrainian: Першотравенськ, pronounced [perʃoˈtrɑwenʲsʲk]) between 1960 and 2024, is a city and municipality in Synelnykove Raion, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (province) of Ukraine. It has a population of 27,099 (2022 estimate).^[1]

History

The city has its origins in 1954 as a mining village named Shakhtarske that grew up around the mines that were built in the area, in Pavlohrad Raion, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. On 6 May 1960 Shakhtarske was given the status of an urban-type settlement and renamed Pershotravensk. It received city status on 26 February 1966.^[2] Pershotravensk was also incorporated as a city of oblast significance, meaning that it was subordinated directly to Dnipropetrovsk Oblast instead of to Pavlohrad Raion within the oblast.^{[citation needed]}

On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast to seven, the city of Pershotravensk was merged into Synelnykove Raion.^[3][4] In April 2023, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed the law "On the Condemnation and Prohibition of Propaganda of Russian Imperial Policy in Ukraine and the Decolonization of Toponymy", which mandates Pershotravensk's name to be changed, because its current name commemorates the Communist International Workers' Day which is celebrated on 1 May (Persho traven in Ukrainian).^[5] According to law this renaming has to take place before 27 January 2024.^[5]

On April 3, the Committee on the Organization of State Power, Local Self-government, Regional Development, and Urban Planning [uk] in the Verkhovna Rada stated their support for renaming the city back to its original name of Shakhtarske.^[6] On 19 September 2024, the Verkhovna Rada voted to rename Pershotravensk to Shakhtarske.^[7]

Demographics

Ethnic groups

Distribution of the population by ethnicity according to the 2001 census:^[8]

Ethnic groups in Shakhtarske percent Ukrainians   60.35% Russians   35.95% Belarusians   1.25% Tatars   0.71% Germans   0.35% Armenians   0.17% Moldovans   0.14% Azerbaijanis   0.05%

Population development

Population history
Year	1974	1989	2013	2022
Pop.	23,600[9]	28,068[10]	29,019[11]	27,099[1]
±% p.a.	—	+1.16%	+0.14%	−0.76%

Notable people

• Oleksandr Kubrakov (born 1982), Ukrainian economist and politician
• Yaroslav Rakitskyi (born 1989), Ukrainian footballer
• Artem Vasko (born 2000), Ukrainian footballer
• Vitaliy Vitsenets (born 1990), Ukrainian footballer
• Artur Zapadnya (born 1990), Ukrainian footballer

References

1. 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.
2. "Першотравенськ, Павлоградський район, Дніпропетровська область". Історія міст і сіл Української РСР (in Ukrainian).
3. "Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ". Голос України (in Ukrainian). 2020-07-18. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
4. "Нові райони: карти + склад" (in Ukrainian). Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України.
5. Olena Burseva (4 August 2023). "Новомосковськ, Павлоград, Синельникове: що ще перейменують у Дніпропетровській області за пів року" [Novomoskovsk, Pavlohrad, Synelnykove: what else will be renamed in the Dnipropetrovsk region in half a year]. Informator (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 1 January 2024.
6. "Комітет з питань організації державної влади підтримав перейменування низки населених пунктів, назви яких містять символіку російської імперської політики або не відповідають стандартам державної мови" (in Ukrainian). April 4, 2024.
7. Проект Постанови про перейменування окремих населених пунктів та районів [Draft resolution on renaming individual populated places and raions]. Retrieved 2024-09-19.
8. "Національний склад міст". Datatowel.in.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2024-11-08.
9. Prokhorova, A. M., ed. (1975). "Першотравенск" [Pershotravensk]. Большая Советская Энциклопедия. Vol. 19 (3 ed.). Soviet Encyclopedia [ru].
10. "Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989 г. Численность городского населения союзных республик, их территориальных единиц, городских поселений и городских районов по полу".
11. "Чисельність наявного населення України на 1 січня 2013 року" (PDF) (in Ukrainian). Kyiv: State Statistics Service of Ukraine. 2013. p. 47.