PAVLOHRAD

Russian Pavlograd, city, Dnipropetrovsk oblast (province), Ukraine. A minor trading centre before the October Revolution (1917) and incorporated in 1797, it is now a major railway junction and centre of the west Donets Basin. Its varied industrial base includes the manufacture of machinery for the chemical industry and for foundries and the production of bricks. There is a linen mill, and consumer industries include the processing of foodstuffs and production of clothes and furniture. Pop. (1993 est.) 137,000.