Battle (Donetsk region)

• 1859 - 1 484 people.
• 1897 - 1 103 people (census), Orthodox - 1,081 (98.0%)
• 1908 - 812 people
• 1970 - 924 people
• 1976 - 905 people
• 2001 - 862 people (census)

In 2001, the mother tongue was named:

• Ukrainian language - 608 people (70.53%)
• Russian language - 252 people (29.23%)

The village was founded as the village of Pokrovskaya, along with the Petrovsky petty-bourgeois village, the village of Nikolskaya, the village of Novospasovskoye and the Starodubovskaya village, who returned from the Russian-Turkish war of 1828-1829 by the Cossacks of the Danube Cossack army , who resettled from the coast of the Sea of ​​Azov for the lands allocated to them. At the time of the creation of the Azov Cossack army , 9.5 thousand people lived in these villages.

Initially, it was the estate of the governor Panov, and therefore they nicknamed the village of Pannovka.

74 thousand acres of land were allotted to the Cossacks for service between the rivers Berdoy, Obitonnoy and the Sea of ​​Azov. Ordinary Cossacks became state peasants, and the top of the Cossacks received noble rights. Thus, 400 acres of land were allocated to headquarters officers, 200 acres to chief officers, and 9 acres per man to clerks and Cossacks with their families, 7.5 widows to Cossack widows, and 4.5 tithes to orphans.

By 1865, the land of the village was acquired by the landowner Scheblatov. He himself did not live in the village, he still had a store in Berdyansk, and a steam mill in Urzuf. The clerk controlled the lands - his house is still preserved. Under the landowner Pannovka was called Pokrovsky.

Upon the abolition of the Azov Cossack army in 1865, a volost was formed from these settlements, and the village of Pokrovskoye became the volost center of the Pokrovskaya volost of the Mariupol district of the Ekaterinoslav province .

By 1884, about 1 thousand people lived in the village, 3.8 thousand people in the entire volost (6.3 thousand people in 1904).

There was a church in the village (it was closed in 1924), in 1912 a medical center appeared. There was no school in the village, some children attended a zemstvo school, so in 1912 14 students graduated from it.

Revolutionary sentiment entered the village during the events of 1905 , when workers at the Yenakiyevo Metallurgical Plant distributed revolutionary literature in the volost.

The name of the village “Fighting” is connected with the events of those years - when on October 9, 1906 the governor of the Yekaterinoslav province A.M. Klingenberg rode through the village, the villagers demanded the cancellation of the order on the protection of state-owned wine shops. The matter took a serious turn when the retinue and 17 officers accompanying the governor were tied up by peasants, and the governor, fearing a more complicated situation, hid in the volost government building, where he received representatives of the villagers, but refused to leave by barricading windows and doors with cabinets, tables and chairs. A day later, about 20 people were arrested, they spent a year and a half in jail before the trial, after which the court sentenced six to different prison terms. But the memory of this event remained, so throughout the volost people said, " In Pokrovsky, the men are fighting, the governor himself was arrested ."

By order of the Mariupol District Executive Committee of September 22, 1923, the village of Pokrovskoye was renamed Boevoe.

With the outbreak of World War II, many villagers joined the Red Army, 112 of them were awarded military orders and medals. From October 1941 to 1943 the village was in the occupied territory .

In 2005-2007, the Holy Pokrovsky Church was built in the village.

• Balzhi, Mikhail Fedorovich - tank designer, author of the IS-3 tank project, Stalin Prize laureate.
• Ovcharenko, Ekaterina Vasilievna (born 1931) - Hero of Socialist Labor.
• Senatosenko, Grigory Prokofievich - accountant of the collective farm "Combat", with the outbreak of war - sniper of the Red Army, Hero of the Soviet Union . In 1967, a monument was erected to him in the village.
• Chuyko, Grigory Leontyevich (1930–2015) - Soviet steelmaker, worker at the Azovstal plant, Hero of Socialist Labor (1958).

87060, Donetsk region, Nikolsky district, with. Battle, st. Senatosenko, 74 g, 2-51-31

• Combat on the website of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (Ukrainian)
• The battle on the site "History of cities and villages"
• M. Koroleva - Volodarsky district and its “fighting” men , Nado.ua, August 30, 2011