Sukha Balka, Donetsk Oblast

Coordinates: 48°19′04″N 37°45′52″E / 48.317778°N 37.764444°E

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Sukha Balka Суха Балка
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Sukha Balka Location of Sukha Balka within Ukraine
Coordinates: 48°19′04″N 37°45′52″E / 48.317778°N 37.764444°E / 48.317778; 37.764444
Country	Ukraine
Province	Donetsk Oblast
Population (2001 census)
• Total	649
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code	85299
Area code	+380 6247

Sukha Balka (Ukrainian: Суха Балка; Russian: Сухая Балка) is a rural settlement in Bakhmut Raion of Donetsk Oblast of eastern Ukraine, at 40.6 km NNW from the centre of Donetsk city, at 14.5 km SW from Toretsk.

On 22 August 2006 a Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise flight crashed near the settlement.^[1] All 170 people on board were killed.^[1]

The War in Donbass, that started in mid-April 2014, has brought along both civilian and military casualties. A male civilian was killed by shelling on 14 June 2017.^[2]

Demographics

In 2001 the settlement had 649 inhabitants. Native language as of the Ukrainian Census of 2001:^[3]

Ukrainian — 6.16%
Russian — 93.84%

References

^ ^a ^b (in Ukrainian) 22 August in history, Istorychna Pravda (22 August 2019)
^ "Сводные данные АТО – 15 июня 2017" [Summary information on ATO as of 15 June 2017]. mediarnbo.org. NSDC. Retrieved 15 June 2017.
^ Розподіл населення за рідною мовою на ukrcensus.gov.ua

v t e Bakhmut Raion
Administrative center: Bakhmut
Cities	Bakhmut Chasiv Yar Siversk Soledar Svitlodarsk Toretsk Zalizne	Coat of arms of Bakhmut Raion
Rural settlements	Dolomitne Khromove Krasna Hora Krymske Kurdiumivka Luhanske Myronivskyi Nahirne Nelipivka New York Novoluhanske Opytne Petrivka Pidhorodne Pivdenne Pivnichne Shcherbynivka Shumy Sukha Balka Spirne Travneve Vyimka Zaitseve Zelenopillia
Villages	Andriivka Bakhmutske Berestove Berkhivka Bilohorivka Blahodatne Bohdanivka Dronivka Dubovo-Vasylivka Fedorivka Hladosove Ivanhrad Ivanivske Klishchiivka Klynove Kodema Krasnopolivka Lozove Lypove Midna Ruda Minkivka Mykolaivka Nova Kamianka Nyzhnie Lozove Orikhovo-Vasylivka Paraskoviivka Pokrovske Pryvillia Rozdolivka Sakko i Vantsetti Serebrianka Striapivka Trypillia Vasiukivka Verkhniokamianske Vershyna Vesela Dolyna Vesele Vidrodzhennia Volodymyrivka Yahidne Yakovlivka Zaitseve Zaliznianske Zvanivka
Hromadas	Bakhmut Chasiv Yar Siversk Soledar Svitlodarsk Toretsk Zvanivka

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