Pavlogradsky district (Dnipropetrovsk region)

Area 1,450 km² (8th among districts).

It is located in the eastern part of the Dnipropetrovsk region . The Samara , Volchya , Bolshaya Ternovka , Ternovka , Malaya Ternovka , Vyazovok , Malaya Tersa , Bereznegovataya rivers flow through the region. The Samara Forest is located in the district.

The soils in the region are black earth , the terrain is flat. In agriculture, agriculture and livestock farming are meat and dairy.

In early 1770 , the Cossack, military foreman - Matvey Khizhnyak built a winter house, from which the Matveyevsky farms and later Sloboda Matveevka went.

In 1779, between the Gnezdka, Volchya and Kocherga rivers, a trench was created from the Lugansk settlement (formerly Matveyevka), thanks to which a city called Pavlograd was formed.

In 1784, Pavlograd received the status of a city and became the center of Yekaterinoslav governorate. The first coat of arms of the city was approved in 1811, the second coat of arms - 1979. The first settlers of the city were the Cossacks of the Samara and Kalmius palanca and the demobilized military.

After the end of the Crimean War of 1853 - 1856 Pavlograd hussars, out of a feeling of gratitude to the Lord that they survived, collected silver (each of Chervonets), on which the Intercession Cathedral was built. Today it is fully restored and is operational.

In 1925, the city ​​became a district center, and in 1926 - a district center. Since 1939, Pavlograd is a separate administrative unit, a city of regional subordination.

Pavlogradsky district was founded in 1923 .

Since 1931, an artillery range operated in Pavlograd, which before the Great Patriotic War turned into a large artillery range. Two large factories of the city worked for defense.

The population of the district is 32 906 people (without the district center, 15th place among the districts; 2009 data), all live in rural conditions.

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The main agricultural crops are winter wheat, corn, sunflower, hemp, and fodder. The average grain yield in 1980 was 20.3 c / ha.

In 2001 , the average yield was about 35 kg / ha (in the Pavlograd district). Of the total area of ​​agricultural crops in 2000, cereals occupied about 50%, industrial crops - 16%, fodder - 39%, vegetables - about 4%.

Processing industry in the region is poorly developed. In villages, it is represented mainly by churns for extracting oil from sunflower seeds. In Pavlograd, there is a food factory, a meat factory (now undergoing reconstruction), a bakery and a dairy.

The region has a dense network of communications. Three railways pass through its territory: Moscow - Simferopol , Dnipro - Pokrovsk , Pavlograd - Novomoskovsk , as well as the highway Kiev - Donetsk .

• Portal of Pavlogradsky district. News, announcements, information, catalog of enterprises and organizations
• The district registration card on the website of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (in Ukrainian)