Katerynivka, Donetsk Oblast

It is located on the left bank of the Sukhi Yaly. The distance to the district center is about 16 km, and it passes by a local highway.

The remains of two Paleolithic settlements have been discovered near the village, which was established in 1700.[1]

During the Holodomor, the village was blacklisted by the government of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, which blockaded Kateryniv, causing mass starvation.[2]

Out of the 270 residents that fought in World War II, 187 died on the Eastern Front. 143 of them received posthumous honours and a monument to the fallen was erected in 1968.[1]

The village has a primarily agricultural economy, centred on the cultivation of grain and the rearing of cattle. Its central estate is a collective farm named after. I. V. Michurin, which holds two cattle farms and two grain farms, spread over 3850 hectares of agricultural land.[1]

The village also has a primary school, a post office and a shopping center.[1]

According to the 2001 census, the population of the village was 778 people, of whom 90.1% stated that their mother tongue was Ukrainian, 9.38% - Russian, and 0.26% - Belarusian.[3]

• Foma Kozhyn (d. 1921) - commander of the machine-gun regiment in the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine
• Yakov Maskalevsky (d. 1922) - insurgent commander during the Ukrainian War of Independence
• Vasiliy Zhuravlyov (1913-2001) - officer in the Soviet Army during World War II