Pokrovsk

Pokrovsk is a town in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. Administratively, it's far integrated as a city of oblast significance. It serves as the administrative center of the Pokrovsk Raion, although it isn't always part of the raion. Its population is approximately 63,437 2017. Since May 2016, the reputable name of the city in Ukraine is Pokrovsk. It became renamed in keeping with the Ukrainian decommunization process. Formerly it become referred to as Krasnoarmiisk. Pokrovsk become based as Grishino in 1875 by using a decision of the Ministry of Railways of the Russian Empire for a railway station.

The village had two thousand inhabitants. In 1881, a locomotive depot which have become one of the essential locomotive repair businesses Ekaterinoslavskaya railway become built in the town. Two years later, in 1883, increased the station building, the significant part of which survives to nowadays. In May 1884, trains subsequently began to undergo the rail station in Grishino.

With the development of the railway station and Grishino grew, there were new companies, and specifically started out to expand deposits of underground minerals, starting with coal.

By 1913, the population Grishino station has extra than doubled and amounted to about 45000 human beings. After the Russian Civil War ravaged Russia as an entire, Grishino station persisted to build momentum and by means of 1925 had a locomotive depot, a brick factory, and 6 mines. The call of the station was modified to Postyshevo in 1934 to honor of Pavel Postyshev, and in 1938, the name of the metropolis have become Krasnoarmeyskoe, after Postyshev became repressed for the duration of the Great Purge.