Apostolove (1818 to 1923: Pokrovske). Map: VI-14. City (1969 pop 17,500) southeast of Kryvyi Rih, a raion center in Dnipropetrovsk oblast. The city has a food industry and reinforced-concrete-products and automobile-repair factories.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 1 (1984).]