Marinka, Ukraine

Marinka Мар'їнка
City
Our Lady of Kazan Orthodox Cathedral in Marinka
Oblast	Donetsk
Raion	Marinka
Founded	1840s
Population (2013)
• Total	9,913

Marinka (Ukrainian: Мар'їнка) is a small city and the administrative center of Marinka Raion, Donetsk Oblast (province), Ukraine. Population: 5,000 (2016 est.);9,913 (2013 est.); 10,722 (2001). The city has been damaged by and is on the frontline of the War in Donbass.

Sometime after the 1775 liquidation of Zaporizhian Sich, lands of Kalmius Palatine were initially passed to the Greek re-settlers. However according to the general plan of the Aleksandrovsk county of 1830s, the area of Maryinka and surrounding villages was not colonized. After the final demarcation of the government land, in 1840s on non-colonized by Greeks territory moved former Ukrainian Cossacks and state peasants (see state serf) from various counties of Poltava Governorate and Kharkov Governorate (Little Russia). After the partition of Poland, at the end of 18th century here were also exiled Polish people from the Kiev and Podolia governorates who also were under a special supervision by the local administration. Unlike the state peasants who used a community land, the exiled Poles were considered as a landowners ("odnodvortsy").

By 1859 there were 1,318 people. As a state village, Maryinka belonged to the 4th stan of Aleksandrovsk county, Yekaterinoslav Governorate. The village administration consisted of a village senior (head of village), a tax collector, a secretary, and a supervisor. The city was under German occupation between 1941 and 1943.

Having been locked up in the police station, the Jews of the city (and the surrounding villages) were killed in a mass execution by an einsatzgruppen. The site of the massacre is located in a pit near the cemetery