Chornushyne (), formerly Chornukhyne (), is a

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Alchevsk urban hromada Alchevsk urban hromada () is a hromada of Ukraine, located in Alchevsk Raion, Luhansk Oblast. Its administrative center is the city Alchevsk. The hromada contains 35 settlements: 4 cities (Alchevsk, Zorynsk, Kypuche, and Perevalsk), 12 rural s ...

Alchevsk Raion Alchevsk Raion (; ) is a prospective raion (district) of Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine. It was formally created in July 2020 as part of the reform of administrative divisions of Ukraine. The center of the raion is in the town of Alchevsk. Population: ...

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. It was formerly in the Popasna Raion and then Perevalsk Raion. In the

2001 Ukrainian census The 2001 Ukrainian census is to date the only census of the population of independent Ukraine. It was conducted by the State Statistics Committee of Ukraine on 5 December 2001, twelve years after the last Soviet Union census in 1989.Kalmius The Kalmius (, ) is a river flowing through Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. Its source is near the Ukrainian city of Yasynuvata, and its mouth is in Mariupol. The Kalmius is one of two rivers flowing through Mariupol. The other is the Kalchyk, which f ...

and Chornukha Rivers flow through the town. It is located northeast of

Donetsk Donetsk ( , ; ; ), formerly known as Aleksandrovka, Yuzivka (or Hughesovka), Stalin, and Stalino, is an industrial city in eastern Ukraine located on the Kalmius River in Donetsk Oblast, which is currently occupied by Russia as the capita ...

. Chornukhyne came under the control of the

Luhansk People's Republic The Luhansk People's Republic (LPR; , ) is a disputed territory administered as a republic of Russia in the occupied parts of eastern Ukraine's Luhansk Oblast, with its capital in Luhansk. The LPR was proclaimed by Russian-backed paramilitar ...

(LNR / LPR) following fierce fighting, in early 2015. It was taken shortly before nearby Debaltsevo in the

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. Following the

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, Russia has claimed the territory as part of their LNR / LPR.

History

The territory was first settled in 1600 as the Chornukhynskyi Post () of the Kalmius Palanka of the

Zaporizhian Sich The Zaporozhian Sich (, , ; also ) was a semi-autonomous polity and proto-state of Zaporozhian Cossacks that existed between the 16th to 18th centuries, for the latter part of that period as an autonomous stratocratic state within the Cossa ...

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territory. In 1778, the settlement was a

sloboda A sloboda was a type of settlement in the history of Belarus, Russia and Ukraine. The name is derived from the early Slavic word for 'freedom' and may be loosely translated as 'free settlement'.

, and in 1892 it became a village. It was granted the status of an urban-type settlement in 1938. On 7 October 2014, to facilitate the governance of Luhansk Oblast during the

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, the

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made some changes in the administrative divisions, so that the localities in the government-controlled areas were grouped into districts. In particular, Chornukhyne was transferred from Perevalsk Raion to Popasna Raion. However, on 20 February 2015, Ukraine lost control of the settlement, and as of 2023 has not regained control. On 18 June 2025, the

renamed the rural settlement to Chornushyne to match Ukrainian language standards.

Notable people

Nikolai Ilyin, top soviet sniper in ww2

References

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Luhansk topographic map 1:100 000
{{Authority control Rural settlements in Alchevsk Raion Slavyanoserbsky Uyezd Alchevsk urban hromada

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