Pavlograd

Pavlograd - a small mining town in the Dnipropetrovsk region of Ukraine. Center for Western Donbass - coalfield.

In early 1770, Zaporizhia Cossack Matthew Khizhnyak Zimovniki built , which went from farm and later Matveevskoe - Sloboda Matveevka .

In 1779, between the rivers Gnezdka , Wolf and Kocherga was created to strengthen the living , that became in 1784 . in the town of Pavlograd .

The first settlers of the city were the Cossacks , and demobilized soldiers who engaged in cattle breeding and husbandry .

In the nineteenth century, a flourishing trade in grain and flour.These products are actively sold not only in Russia but also in London , Constantinople.

The city developed as a industrial center. Salotopny were built , leather , foundry , oil mills , tobacco factories, steam-mills , printworks , City Bank, and the network grew Education - in 1897 there were 12 in the city schools.

in 1856 . on donations Pavlograd hussars, the survivors of the Crimean War, was built St. Basil's Cathedral , which operates to this day.

B 1896r . was built by the Count of the means of family theater Golenishchev-Kutuzov .In the 70- year tye XIX century was built railway between St. Petersburg and Simferopol , which went through Pavlograd .

After the Second World War were discovered in the huge coal reserves, which would make a town center Pavlograd Western Donbass. During this period the emergence of Pavlograd as mining center.It starts with the active construction of mines.

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